Upstream project news

The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority has accepted Equinor’s environment plan for exploratory petroleum drilling in the Great Australian Bight.

Magma Global has been selected by C-Innovation to supply m-pipe® thermoplastic composite subsea jumpers for flowline intervention in the Gulf of Mexico.

The project will cover approximately 1000 km2 of ocean bottom and towed streamer seismic on Repsol’s operated block offshore Peninsular Malaysia.

Re-evaluation of data and core analysis indicates a material upgrade in liquid hydrocarbons contained in the Kirkham Abbey reservoir in the West Newton project area. The Upside Case estimates are liquids 283 million bbl and gas 265.9 billion ft3.

ONEgas is decomplexing their gas field in the Netherlands Continental Shelf in order to centralise gas processing and switch platforms to unmanned operation.

The contract scope includes transportation and installation of five steel catenary risers for CNOOC’s Lingshui 17-2 Gas Field Development Project.

The contract for the semi-submersible rig Maersk Discoverer has an estimated duration of 322 days and is expected to commence in July 2020.

The company expects to complete and test the Cascadura-1ST1 well, located in the Ortoire exploration block, in 1Q20.

The project is located in the Gulf of Thailand and comprises a new bridge-linked wellhead platform structure along with the retrofitting of extension structures to the existing platforms.

Three appraisal wells drilled this year, GTA-1, Yakaar-2 and Orca-1, targeted a total of nine hydrocarbon-bearing zones. The wells encountered gas in high quality reservoirs in all nine zones.