Upstream project news

Havila Shipping has said it and Shell have different views on the obligation of Shell in a charter party based on two wells.

Kvaerner will deliver the topside and steel substructure for the normally unmanned wellhead platform at the Hod field.

Electrification of the Sleipner field centre will entail laying a new power cable from Sleipner to the Gina Krog platform, which will be tied into the area solution for power from shore on the Utsira High.

The project will be implemented in the Bir Seba and Mouiat Outlad Messaoud oilfields for Groupement Bir Seba.

The company has completed the Pan Malaysia Transportation and Installation Projects for Sarawak Shell Berhad and SapuraOMV.

The survey is located south of the high-profile discoveries in the Santos Basin and the recent sought-after blocks offered in Rounds 15 and 16.

The charter is with an unnamed, 'leading' E&P company and will entail the servicing of platforms in the Gulf of Thailand.

The company is to increase its interest in the Wressle development in Lincolnshire, UK, to 40%.

Apache’s adoption of the Arup Inspect MInteg inspection service on the Beryl Alpha platform has reduced offshore inspection hours of the topside structure whilst enhancing the quality and availability of inspection data.

The regulation provides that exploratory drilling projects in a specific area of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador offshore are excluded from the requirement to undergo a project-specific federal Impact Assessment.