Offshore news

Offshore Energies UK says calls by politicians to impose UK windfall taxes on companies’ global profits risked misleading voters and consumers.

This is the third FPSO that Keppel Shipyard is delivering to SBM Offshore and will be chartered to the consortium of ExxonMobil, CNOOC, and Hess to operate in offshore Guyana.

The company has announced that the ultra-deepwater drillship, Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2, has been awarded a 910-day contract by a national oil company for work offshore Brazil.

The first contract, in partnership with Aker Solutions do Brasil, has been awarded by Total Energies, for the LAPA Southwest (LAPA SW) Development Project, a deepwater oilfield in the Santos Basin in the South Atlantic.

The Uaru field development award marks Strohm’s largest order.

The company has secured orders for the supply of 25 000 metric tons of line pipe for an upcoming landmark Salamanca deep-water development off the US coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

The round, which closed last week, attracted a total of 115 bids across 258 blocks and part-blocks, from a total of 76 companies.

In 2023 the company plans to participate in 25 exploration wells, most of them around existing infrastructure.

The companies have announced their partnership to bring high horsepower, lower emissions technology to hydraulic fracturing.

The systems will be deployed across two of OceanPact’s vessels to support inspection, repair and maintenance services for Petrobras' oilfields.