
Wood Mackenzie comments on Delek's purchase of Chevron’s North Sea assets
Kevin Swann, senior research analyst, North Sea upstream at Wood Mackenzie, said: “The deal continues the UK trend of smaller companies taking on assets from the majors."
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Kevin Swann, senior research analyst, North Sea upstream at Wood Mackenzie, said: “The deal continues the UK trend of smaller companies taking on assets from the majors."

Ismael Ripoll will be responsible for leading the team which specialises in finite element analysis, covering a variety of areas including steel and flexible pipelines, pressure vessels and structures.

The Petroleum Directorate of Sierra Leone, in partnership with GeoPartners and Getech, have announced the re-opening of the 4th licensing round as of 21 May 2019.

Azinam Ltd has received governmental approval and completed the previously announced transaction to acquire an operating interest in Block 3B/4B in the Orange Basin, offshore South Africa.

The option agreement for the bareboat charter of the FPSO Dhirubhai-1 has been extended until 1 September 2019 against an additional compensation.

Effective immediately, the one-year contract will be delivered by Wood’s team based in Perth, Australia.

The company will provide three emergency rescue and response vessels to support BP’s operations in the Caribbean.

24 blocks offshore in the Cuban economic exclusive zone of the Gulf of Mexico are being offered.

The title transfers of exploration permit WA-359-P, which contains the giant Ironbark gas prospect offshore Western Australia, are to be transferred to new joint venture partners BP Developments Australia, Beach Energy and New Zealand Oil & Gas.

The company said the floating production system, located in the first producing field in the Norphlet area, will produce around 175 000 boe/d of oil and gas.

Calima will receive US$2.0 million on completion of the transaction.

The company presented examples of how operators have realised the commercial and schedule benefits of open subsea architecture.