Offshore & subsea

There has been a significant oil discovery at an exploration well in the Yggdrasil area of the Norwegian North Sea.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has tested the oil and gas industry’s preparedness for subsea blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico.

A successful capacity test has been performed confirming that the Johan Sverdrup field can produce up to 755 000 bpd of oil.

C-Innovation and its family of companies have completed their 46th well intervention in the Gulf of Mexico.

Subsea7 has confirmed a contract with Turkish Petroleum for subsea development offshore Turkey.

Aquaterra Energy has secured a contract with BP for a subsea well development project in Trinidad and Tobago.

Saipem has been awarded an EPCI project in the Black Sea and a decommissioning project in the North Sea.

Aker Solutions has been awarded contract from ExxonMobil to provide subsea umbilicals for the Uaru Project, offshore Guyana.

Energy services provider Expro has secured a new contract with Harbour Energy for a well abandonment campaign.

The company has announced that is has signed an agreement to build a new technology hub in Abu Dhabi.

The implementation of the Digital Fabric Maintenance solution has enabled greater digitalisation and a reduction in the total time spent on inspection and development of maintenance plans in an active FPSO.

On 15 May, the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea was officially opened by the minister of petroleum and energy, Terje Aasland.

Well 6406/5-2 S encountered a gas/condensate column of about 24 m in the Garn Formation, 46 m of which was a sandstone reservoir with poor to moderate reservoir properties.

The company has announced the award of a contract for a two-phase subsea development.

The company has announced that the Transocean Equinox was awarded a five-well contract in Australia by a major operator, representing approximately US$137 million in firm backlog.