Offshore news
COSL Offshore Management to drill Statfjord wells for Equinor
Four wells on Statfjord Øst will be drilled with the COSLPromoter rig from the spring of 2023.
OGUK: UK gas production will fall 75% by 2030 without new investment
The output of the UK’s gas fields in the North Sea and Irish Sea is falling, partly because, according to OGUK, too few new fields have been developed.
Mammoet completes load-out of platform’s topside in Turkmenistan
Mammoet has carried out the load-out of the Garagol Deniz Drilling Platform A's topside.
Nexans to provide deepwater high voltage dynamic cable for Jansz-Io Compression project
Nexans will use its new cable-laying vessel, the Aurora, to install the cables.
Xodus acquires Ocean Geo Solutions
Ocean Geo Solutions’ current workforce, including geophysicists, cartographers and support staff will continue to operate out of its Houston office.
Baker Hughes’ Subsea Drilling Systems and Akastor’s MHWirth complete merger
The new company will be known as HMH, and Baker Hughes and Akastor will own equal equity.
Shell restarts Olympus platform
Shell's remaining assets in the Mars corridor in the Gulf of Mexico, Mars and Ursa, remain shut in.
Petrobras begins sale of stakes in GoM fields
Petrobras' share of production from the fields in the first half of 2021 was 11.3 thousand boe/d.
Heerema removes Shell's Goldeneye platform in UK North Sea
Operations included removing the 1280 metric t topside and the 3019 metric t jacket before transportation to the AF Environmental Base in Norway for recycling and reuse.
Net Zero Technology Centre launches well P&A collaboration initiative
The collaboration initiative will aim to enable faster, lower cost validation and qualification of new technologies to deliver future well P&A programmes or campaigns.