Offshore news

Engineers completed the 24 000 running hours service work on a Mitsubishi S12U engine installed onboard the 60 m diameter length Hummingbird Spirit vessel, currently operating in the Chestnut Field in the Central North Sea.

The five-year contract will see OEM provide services on a number of offshore drilling platforms in Abu Dhabi.

Located 18 km south-east of Sapakara South, Krabdagu-1 was drilled at a water depth of 780 m and encountered approximately 90 m of net oil pay in good quality Maastrichtian and Campanian reservoirs.

ADNOC Drilling, Weatherford, Halliburton and Schlumberger were the winners of the contracts from ADNOC.

The extension covers all the rigs which Archer is currently the incumbent contractor for, which include Statfjord A, B and C, Gullfaks A, B and C, Grane, Njord, Sleipner A, Snorre A and B, and Visund.

MacGregor’s offloading systems will play a critical role in ensuring the safe and efficient discharge of oil from the FPSO to a shuttle tanker.

EM&I has proven a diverless method for blanking sea chests without the use of divers using an ‘intelligent’ motorised wire guided blanking plate.

The new multimodal supercentre has been built together with Baker Hughes’ existing completion warehouse and liquid mud and completion fluids plant, providing full support to customers in Guyana and Suriname.

The contract supports a 270-day campaign on the installations and will start in March 2022, creating 300 fixed-term positions.

The company's Aberdeen office has been given funding for full pre-production testing of its pseudo dry gas liquid removal system.