Decom North Sea (DNS) has this week announced the launch of a new series of events for the decommissioning industry in light of the new era of business evolving post COVID19.

Equinor and its license partners Source Energy AS and Wellesley Petroleum AS have discovered gas and condensate in exploration well 30/2-5 S Atlantis. Based on preliminary estimates the proven reserves are between 3 and 10 million standard cubic meters of recoverable oil equivalent, corresponding to 19-63 million barrels of oil equivalent.

Subsea 7 announces the award of a sizeable⁽¹⁾ contract for work in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract will be recorded in backlog in the second quarter. 

Equinor is leading a project to develop one of the UK’s – and the world’s – first at-scale facilities to produce hydrogen from natural gas in combination with carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Oceaneering International, Inc. has won a contract to provide a number of monobore diverless connectors for an offshore Western Australia project.

Equinor and its partners have signed a letter of intent with Odfjell Drilling for the Deepsea Atlantic rig to drill 12 wells during phase 2 of the Johan Sverdrup field development, following its work on phase 1.

Fugro has used the survey vessel Edda Sun to deliver an inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) project for Corrib, Ireland’s biggest natural gas field, on behalf of Vermilion Exploration and Production Ireland Limited (Vermilion).

Kvaerner has been awarded by Allseas a contract to dismantle and recycle three large topsides, three jackets and four bridges from the Valhall and Hod fields, with a combined weight of 33 000 tonnes, as well as options for another 5 000 tonnes. The assignment will at peak provide work for around 100 persons.

Halliburton Company and TechnipFMC  has introduced Odassea™, the first distributed acoustic sensing solution for subsea wells. The technology platform enables operators to execute intervention-less seismic imaging and reservoir diagnostics to reduce total cost of ownership while improving reservoir knowledge.

Equinor has, on behalf of the license partners, awarded APPLY, a framework agreement for engineering and installation services on the North Sea Statfjord field. According to the agreement the parties will collaborate in new ways while carrying out the work on Statfjord safely and efficiently.

Eni have successfully drilled the first exploration well in the North El Hammad license, in the conventional Egyptian waters of the Nile Delta, on the prospect called Bashrush. The discovery further extends to the west the gas potential of the Abu Madi formation reservoirs discovered and produced from the so-called "Great Nooros Area."

Total and its partners announce the start-up of the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) P-70 of the Iara cluster (Block BM-S-11A), located in the deepwater Santos Basin pre-salt offshore Brazil.

On behalf of the Oseberg partners, Equinor has awarded Aibel a portfolio agreement for the Oseberg fields for the period 2020-2026.

Neptune Energy and its partners have announced the discovery of hydrocarbons at the Dugong well (PL 882) in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. 

Technology and data intelligence specialist IMRANDD has secured a two-year contract extension with Dana Petroleum, providing integrity services for all of its UK operated assets.

Oceaneering International, Inc. (Oceaneering) has announced that its Asset Integrity group has secured a three-year contract with Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (CABGOC), a Chevron subsidiary.