Offshore
News
September 19, 2024
The first award is a “substantial” contract to design, engineer, and manufacture riser flexible pipe. The second award involves work to design, engineer, and manufacture subsea production systems to be deployed on the Atapu 2, Sepia 2, and Roncador projects.
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September 19, 2024
The main production facilities include a new deepwater jacket platform Haiji-2 and a cylindrical FPSO Haikui-1. A total of 32 development wells are to be commissioned. The project is expected to achieve a peak production of approximately 17,900 bopd in 2026. The oil property is heavy crude.
News
September 18, 2024
The well will be drilled as a deviated hole with a total measured depth of approximately 7,500 m and is expected to take 50 - 60 days to drill and evaluate. The well lies within tie-back distance to both the Who Dat G subsea manifold (6 km) and the Who Dat FPS.
News
September 18, 2024
This strategic initiative combines Oil States’ MPD Integrated Riser Joint (IRJ) system with Seadrill’s high-spec fleet of floating drilling vessels to enhance safety and efficiency while simplifying and standardizing MPD systems operating in the offshore drilling market.
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September 18, 2024
Johan Castberg is a large oil field with estimated recoverable volumes of between 450 and 650 MMbbl. The field will produce for 30 years, and at its peak, Johan Castberg may produce 220,000 bpd.
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September 18, 2024
Saipem’s scope of work involves the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of wellhead platforms’ topsides, wellhead platforms’ jackets, tie-in platform jacket and topside, rigid flowlines, submarine composite cables and fiber optic cables.
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September 17, 2024
Preliminary estimates place the size of the Gundrun discovery between 0.1 and 1.2 MMcm of recoverable oil equivalent in the intra-Draupne Formation, and between 0.4 and 1.3 MMcm of recoverable oil equivalent in the Hugin Formation.
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September 17, 2024
During the five years ending in 2023, companies reduced their pollution by more than 25%, a percentage they originally pledged to achieve by 2027 in the North Sea Transition Deal, according to Offshore Energies UK.
News
September 16, 2024
Earlier this month, Equinor’s Troll B and C fields offshore Norway became partly powered from shore. This reduces annual emissions from the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) by 250,000 tonnes of CO2.
News
September 16, 2024
Suriname’s state oil company, Staatsolie, has announced plans to issue bonds in 2025 as part of a strategy to finance its participation in the development of offshore Block 58.
News
September 16, 2024
Global deepwater spending by oil producers is forecast to grow to an average of $79 billion in 2026 and 2027, according to Noble, citing research from Rystad. That would be a 20% hike from the average annual amount between 2023 and 2025.
News
September 15, 2024
Saipem’s scope of work encompasses the engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation of six platforms as well as approximately 100 km of corrosion resistance alloy rigid subsea pipelines of 28’’ and 24’’ diameter, 100 km of subsea composite cables, 150 km of fiber optic cables and several other subsea facilities.
News
September 15, 2024
Block 14 and Block 15 were part of the Suriname Shallow Offshore 2 Bid Round 2023-2024. The blocks are in the eastern part of the Suriname-Guyana basin and border Block 52, where oil and gas discoveries have previously been made. Block 14 has water depths of 50 to 75 m, and Block 15 from 75 to 150 m.
News
September 15, 2024
Set to face a shortfall of natural gas at the start of next year, Colombia’s hopes are riding on the future potential of its deepwater wells. Ecopetrol’s offshore chief, Elsa Jaimes, said in an interview last month that production from Caribbean waters could come online as early as 2029, depending on approvals from local communities and securing environmental licenses.
News
September 12, 2024
Transocean Ltd. has secured a $232 million contract with bp for its Deepwater Atlas drillship in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
News
September 12, 2024
bp has chosen ABS to support its deepwater Kaskida project in the Gulf of Mexico. ABS will provide classification and engineering verification for the project's new semisubmersible production unit.
News
September 11, 2024
The 225,000 bpd Almirante Tamandare production vessel is on route and set to arrive in Brazil this year, and a similar unit is near completion at a Chinese shipyard and will arrive in 2025. SBM is also waiting for Petrobras to re-launch a tender for two FPSOs for an offshore project in the Sergipe-Alagoas basin.
News
September 11, 2024
by extending safe operating windows, Akselos can help operators avoid over $100 million in lost production by potentially avoiding unnecessary dry dock. The software also allows FPSO operators to extend the operational life of assets by removing unwanted and overly conservative fatigue estimates, powered by the Akselos RB-FEA technology.
News
September 11, 2024
Personnel have been evacuated from a total of 171 production platforms, 46% of the 371 manned platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Evacuations have also commenced from three non-dynamically positioned rigs, equivalent to 60% of the five rigs of this type currently operating in the Gulf. A total of four DP rigs have moved off location out of the storm’s path as a precaution. This number represents 20% of the 20 DP rigs currently operating in the Gulf.
News
September 10, 2024
The latest Emissions Monitoring Report from the NSTA shows that progress has been made and the 2030 target is within reach, but more work is needed to ensure that industry meets and surpasses key emissions targets and gets on long-term reduction trajectories.
News
September 10, 2024
The combined solution will address challenges in locating, re-entering and re-abandoning legacy wells that penetrate, or pass through, offshore oil and gas reservoirs or saline aquifers that have been earmarked to be repurposed for carbon dioxide (CO2) or hydrogen storage.
