In support of President Donald J. Trump’s America-First Offshore Energy Strategy, Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Joe Balash and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Acting Director Walter Cruickshank have announced that BOEM will offer 78 million acres for a region-wide lease sale scheduled for March 2019. The sale would include all available unleased areas in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
The Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA) has approved Lloyd’s Register (LR) as a recognized classification society for the construction of mobile units in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
Aberdeen-based production optimization specialist Enpro Subsea has announced that the £1.5million investment project in its Flow Intervention Services (FIS) technology, which included a £755,000 research and development grant from Scottish Enterprise, has started onshore testing ahead of planned subsea field trials later this year.
Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. (“Shell”), announces with consortium partners the start of production at the Lula North deep-water project in the Brazilian Santos Basin.
The BHP Board has approved US$696 million (BHP share) in funding to develop the Atlantis Phase 3 project in the US Gulf of Mexico. This follows sanction by BP, as the Operator, of the Atlantis Phase 3 project, announced in January 2019.
Wood and KBR, Inc. have secured a new multimillion dollar contract to deliver integrated front-end engineering design (FEED) for Shell Australia’s Crux project to build a not normally manned (NNM) platform and gas export pipeline located approximately 600km north of Broome, offshore Western Australia (WA).
Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill") announces that it has entered into a 50:50 joint venture with Empresa de Serviços e Sondagens de Angola Ltda, an affiliate of Sonangol E.P. ("Sonangol"). The new joint venture, Sonadrill, will operate four drillships, focusing on opportunities in Angolan waters.
Saipem has been awarded two EPIC contracts (Engineering, Procurement, Installation, Construction) assigned by the client Saudi Aramco for a total amount of approximately 1,3 billion USD as part of the Long Term Agreement for offshore activities in Saudi Arabia, renewed in 2015 and in force until 2021.
BP has announced first gas production from the second stage of its West Nile Delta development offshore Egypt.
ION Geophysical Corporation has announced a new 2D multi-client reimaging program offshore Brazil.
ExxonMobil has made two additional discoveries offshore Guyana at the Tilapia-1 and Haimara-1 wells, bringing the total number of discoveries on the Stabroek Block to 12. The discoveries build on the previously announced estimated recoverable resource of more than 5 billion oil-equivalent barrels on the Stabroek block.
In November 2018, Vår Energi (formerly Eni Norge) and Simon Møkster Shipping signed an agreement to upgrade the supply vessel Stril Barents in order to reduce CO2 emissions. The upgrade involves the installation of shore power connection, combined with a new battery solution for energy storage on board.
The LAGCOE 2019 Conference Committee is now accepting speaker applications for consideration for its biennial conference and exposition to be held October 9-11, 2019 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA. The theme for LAGCOE 2019 is “The Future of Energy Starts Here.”
Total has made a significant gas condensate discovery on the Brulpadda prospects, located on Block 11B/12B in the Outeniqua Basin, 175 kilometers off the southern coast of South Africa.
McDermott International, Inc. has signed a contract with Woodside Energy Ltd. to undertake a front-end engineering and design activities for a floating production unit (FPU) for the Scarborough field gas development in Western Australia.
Vryhof, a trusted partner to many of the offshore industry’s leading companies and its mooring business - Deep Sea Mooring (DSM), have announced the signing of a multi-year agreement with Diamond Offshore, a leader in offshore drilling.
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