Offshore news

ACE Winches, has secured a spooling contract with Oceaneering for Shell’s Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) project.

The Veolia and Peterson partnership has been awarded two platform decommissioning contracts for recycling at their facility in Great Yarmouth.

Valhall and Hod have passed one billion barrels of oil equivalents (oil, gas and NGL) produced – thus more than three times what was expected at the opening of the field in 1982.

The contract will cover the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of four jackets and three gas observation platforms offshore Saudi Arabia. The total weight of all structures combined is 11 595 t.

Sound Energy has confirmed that: ground works at the well site are now complete; the conductor pipe was set last week ; and the 3000 HP EMSCO C3 rig, owned by Pergemine S.p.A, has been mobilised.

Fagioli and RINA Services work to ensure smooth installation of colossal Hebron platform topsides.

Statoil plans to drill around 30 exploration wells in 2017, an increase of around 30% compared to 2016. More than half of the wells will be drilled on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

LGO has provided further update on its plans to recommence production drilling at the Goudron Field in Trinidad following its announcement of 21 December 2016.

InterAct is pleased to announce that Francois Florence has joined its team as a Senior Reservoir Engineer.

On 30 December 2016 Statoil and Wintershall Norge completed their previously announced transaction, whereby Statoil has acquired Wintershall’s 25% interest in the Byrding project on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).