Offshore news

The Guyana investment strategy continues to yield positive results; additional exploration wells planned later this year, while production from two vessels currently operating offshore has exceeded their initial combined target of 340 000 bpd.

ZMI Holdings has announced that ADNOC Logistics & Services), the shipping and maritime logistics arm of ADNOC Group, has entered into definitive agreement to acquire ZMI. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to close in 4Q22.

As well as being used for follow-on OPITO assessments and Lifeboat Coxswain Further Training, the simulators will help improve competency, enhance the learner experience and raise lifeboat safety standards.

A gas leak in a contained area related to a turbine on Sleipner A was reported in the morning of 11 July. The incident was quickly clarified. During the process of resuming production and depressurisation, an additional gas leak occurred on the Sleipner R riser platform late Monday night.

A new feature used in the creation of GeoWells Brazil is an innovative core image interpretation workflow. This harnesses machine learning technology to predict core and thin section descriptions over hundreds of wells, and tens of thousands of images.

It is anticipated that a discovery at North Eigg would be developed utilising Serica’s nearby 98% owned and operated infrastructure on the Bruce platform. Results of the North Eigg well are expected in mid-October and will be announced by RNS.

TechnipFMC will continue to provide a wide range of engineering, studies and technical services to Neptune Energy. This includes installation work and operational support for Neptune’s development projects and producing fields.

The company has been awarded a contract to deploy its high-volume mud cooler technology for a project owned by Germany’s largest private developer of geothermal systems.

The permits, for wells off the coast of Norway, have been granted based upon the petroleum resource act paragraph 13.

Through the agreement, Longboat farmed-in to two near-term, gas weighted exploration prospects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf targeting combined gross unrisked mean prospective resources of 223 mmboe (45 mmboe net to Longboat).