ExxonMobil has awarded Aker Solutions with a contract to deliver dynamic and static subsea umbilicals for its recently sanctioned project in Guyana. The contract includes the delivery of three dynamic and seven static umbilicals totaling over 52 kilometers in length for the Uaru project. Project exe
After IBAMA’s rejection, Petrobras will move to another location a rig brought in preparation for drilling activities on a block off Brazil.
TechnipFMC has secured what it describes as a “significant” contract with Equinor to provide riserless light well intervention (RLWI) services on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Under the agreement, TechnipFMC will provide production enhancement, production data, and pre-plug-and-abandonment
United Oil & Gas (UOG) has agreed to give more time to UK-headquartered oil and gas company Quattro Energy to secure funding for the purchase of a license in the UK Central North Sea that includes an existing hydrocarbon discovery. The two parties entered into a binding asset purchase agreement (APA
Due to a forecast storm event, Helix Energy Solutions’ semi-submersible vessel Q7000 has departed earlier than planned from Port Taranaki in New Zealand towards the Tui field where it will perform decommissioning work. Q7000 will plug and abandon the wells across the Tui field as part of Phase 3 of
Saudi state-owned oil and gas giant Aramco has appointed presidents of its upstream and downstream businesses to support the company’s growth plans. Aramco has appointed Nasir K. Al-Naimi as President of its Upstream business and Mohammed Y. Al Qahtani as President of its Downstream business, both r
Italian oilfield services provider Saipem has secured two new offshore contracts with an overall value of approximately $850 million. Saipem has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract by Turkish Petroleum OTC for the second phase of the Sakarya FEED a
Canada’s oil and gas player Trillion Energy has discovered an ‘abundance of gas pay’ with the fifth well in its multi-well program at a natural gas field in the Black Sea off Türkiye. The Bayhanli 2 well was spud on 5 April at the East Ayazli Tripod on the SASB gas field with the Uranus rig, which w
Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has discovered hydrocarbons in an exploratory well in the Aram block in the Santos Basin pre-salt offshore Brazil. The 3-BRSA-1387D-SPS well is located 260 kilometers from the city of Santos-SP, at a water depth of 1,979 meters. According to Petrobra
Canada-based oil and gas company Valeura Energy has reached a production milestone from an oil field in the Gulf of Thailand, marking it as a “remarkable achievement”. Valeura Energy announced that as of 15 May, the Jasmine oil field had produced its 90 millionth barrel of oil, greatly exceeding the
Australian oil and gas company Beach Energy has connected two new wells to its Otway Basin development, now delivering additional gas into the Australian East Coast gas market. At the start of 2022, Beach Energy confirmed that the first two wells of its offshore Otway Basin campaign – Geographe 4 an
Equinor’s Hywind Tampen, the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm in operation, has started delivering electricity to the Snorre oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea. The 88 MW Hywind Tampen delivered first power in November 2022. The electricity was delivered to the Gullfaks A platfo
Australia’s oil and gas company Karoon Energy has restarted production from assets connected to a floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel offshore Brazil, following maintenance work. Karoon shut-in Baúna production, including from the Patola field, on 28 March due to a loss of co
Shelf Drilling has boosted its backlog further during the first quarter of 2023, despite experiencing a sequential decline in revenue.
