Offshore news

TotalEnergies and Inpex have sold Angola Block 14 B.V. to the Angolan company Somoil.

Demand for shuttle tankers in countries with robust offshore oil production and limited pipeline infrastructure is set to grow continuously in the coming years, a Rystad Energy report shows.

TotalEnergies E&P Suriname, Suriname Branch has added the drilling of one additional well in Block 58 offshore Suriname to the work scope of the drillship Maersk Valiant.

The contract covers a high-pressure, high-temperature subsea production system and associated equipment for a brownfield tieback in the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

The first two wells of Beach Energy's offshore Otway Basin campaign have been connected to the Otway Gas Plant and are now delivering gas into Australia's East Coast market.

The revision will result in an impairment in the region of US$1.8 billion.

McDermott has been contracted for EPCIC services for a Floating Production Unit at Woodside's Scarborough project. The company will also deliver EPCI for the North Field East Topsides and the North Field East Offshore Pipelines and Subsea Cables projects offshore Qatar.

The contracts are for work on the Scarborough project offshore Australia and the Yellowtail development offshore Guyana.

A net gas pay totalling more than 100 m has been calculated at the Anchois-2 appraisal and exploration well offshore Morocco, compared to 55 m in the original Anchois-1 discovery well.

The Noble Hans Deul rig is expected to remain offshore with non-essential crew and equipment demobilised while an issue with rig stability is rectified.