Upstream project news

Nexans will use its new cable-laying vessel, the Aurora, to install the cables.

The extensive modification and life extension work on the Aframax tanker will include the provision of a new hull coating, designed to make the FSO’s performance reliable for uninterrupted service for the next 20 years for offshore operation.

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.

Varying in duration from 18 months to 3 years, the contracts have a combined high six-figure value.

SPIE Oil & Gas Services will provide Process Automation Systems integration services for its subsea gas compression system for the Jansz-Io field, offshore Western Australia.

The contract will be delivered by around 120 Wood employees across the offshore and onshore assets including the Clipper and Leman offshore assets, Bacton Gas Terminal, Kroonborg and Kasteelborg vessels and the Seafox4 barge campaign.

The discovery well Kenli 10-2-4 was drilled and completed at a depth of 1520 m, and encountered oil pay zones with a total thickness of approximately 27 m.

The company continues to forecast that average production for the year is expected to remain within the range of 8500 - 10 500 bpd.

Lukoil has acquired a 25% participating interest in the Shallow Water Absheron Peninsula exploration project.

Appraisal drilling at Keskesi South-1 on Block 58 offshore Suriname encountered non-commercial quantities of hydrocarbons.