Awilco Drillling to undertake P&A work for Petrofac
The plug and abandonment programme will take place in the Rubie and Renee oilfields in the North Sea.
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The plug and abandonment programme will take place in the Rubie and Renee oilfields in the North Sea.
It is anticipated that production from the Bruce, Keith and Rhum fields, located in the UK North Sea, will be fully restored over the coming days.
The Harvey and Redwell licences are in the UK Southern North Sea.
Preliminary estimates place the size of the oil discovery, 11 km southeast of Gudrun, between 1 and 2.7 million m3 of recoverable oil.
Global contractor Dolphin Drilling has announced it has secured a one well plus one optional well with Wellesley Petroleum AS for a programme of drilling work on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Wintershall Dea Norge AS is in the process of concluding the drilling of appraisal well 6604/5-2 S, located about 113 km southwest of the Aasta Hansteen field.
The contract is with an unnamed major international oil company.
Operator Aker BP plans start-up of the Skogul oilfield in the North Sea in March 2020.
In 2018, North Sea oilfields recorded 307 individual months of no production in the year to September; in the same period last year, that figure had reduced to just 248, according to the Glacier Production Index.
Petrofac has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with MODS, a digitalisation and dimensional control service company, to deploy its flagship product ‘Virtual Manager Enterprise’ (VME) at scale in the North Sea.
The Thailand-based company intends to utilise the subsidiary as a vehicle to expand the provision of its subsea and related services into the UK North Sea.
The company secured contracts in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea during the second half of 2019.