Upstream news

Global Energy Group and Rigfit7seas have been appointed to deliver the refurbishment of the semi-submersible drilling rig into a plug and abandonment unit.

Operator Equinor is planning start-up during the course of September 2019.

Completion of the acquisition and the merger plan has been registered with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises.

Assuming an early September FID date, under the development schedule to be submitted in the finalised Phase 1 Field Development Plan, First Gas is expected to be reached in July 2021 from the Southwark field in the North Sea.

The three-year contract will see OPEX Group roll out its X-PAS predictive analysis service on the Buzzard, Golden Eagle and Scott platforms in the North Sea.

Neivan Boroujerdi, principal analyst, North Sea upstream, at Wood Mackenzie, said the focus for any new buyer will be on increasing recovery and pushing out abandonment costs.

The Netherlands headquartered business will supply two, 180-m-long TCP Jumpers to support the Sinopec subsidiary’s operations in the Okwori field, off the coast of Nigeria.

The Oil & Gas Innovation Centre is supporting a series of projects that will help the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Applied Dynamics Research team develop new offshore drilling operations.

Bender is working with oil and gas operators on a range of control systems, electrical distribution networks and historic devices to help classify and eradicate faults and improve system health.

Brazil is set to award seven more FPSO awards in 2020.