Offshore news

Tamarind, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will pay New Zealand Oil & Gas US$750 000 in exchange for all shares in its Tui holding company, Stewart Petroleum.

The facility supports managed pressure drilling operations in the North Sea.

The MultiClient FTG Programme includes airborne 3D Full Tensor Gradiometry (FTG) and magnetic survey data that will be undertaken over offshore Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Sabah.

The contacts have a total value, included options, of NOK 2.7 billion. The vessels will be part of Statoil’s area-wide emergency response on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).

Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS has made an oil and gas discovery in the main well 7219/12-1 and is presently drilling a sidetrack 7219/12-1A on the Filicudi prospect.

The company has announced that the Board has approved expenditure of US$2.2 billion for its share of the development of the Mad Dog Phase 2 project in the Gulf of Mexico.

Peterson will provide logistics consultancy services to support the planning and initial development of Port Cameron, a 500 acre deepwater staging port situated in Cameron, Louisiana, serving the Gulf of Mexico.

A Polarcus subsidiary has entered into a heads of agreement with SCF GEO AS, to charter a vessel on bareboat terms with delivery scheduled for March, 2017.

Halliburton has announced the release of the Dash® Large Bore Subsea Safety System, which provides full electrohydraulic control of well safety and intervention functions.

The FPSO shall operate in Sankofa-Gye Nyame field in the Tano Basin, in Ghana’s offshore, for the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) project.