
Lundin Energy makes minor oil discovery near Solveig field
The licensees will assess the discovery, about 15 km south of the Edvard Grieg field, with regard to a possible tie-in to the Solveig field.
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The licensees will assess the discovery, about 15 km south of the Edvard Grieg field, with regard to a possible tie-in to the Solveig field.

Pro forma for the acquisition, Noble will own and operate a high specification fleet of 24 rigs, with 11 drillships, 1 semisubmersible, and 12 jackups.

The company expects that the acquisition, on behalf of an unnamed customer, will take place in the beginning of 3Q21.

The US$615 million deal includes all INEOS Oil & Gas interests in production, licenses, fields, facilities and pipelines, on the Norwegian continental shelf.

3t Energy Group has secured a contract with Chrysaor to manage the training of its entire UK workforce using digital learning technologies.

The newly established Aker BP UK has taken a 50% interest in licence P2511 on the UK Continental Shelf.

The well in licence VIC/P43 intersected a gross gas column of 69.5 m in the Upper Waarre Formation, including 62.9 m of net gas pay, with a gaswater contact intersected at 1990 m measured depth.

Tranter’s project scope covers design, engineering, supply, and maintenance of several plate heat exchangers that will be installed on the topside facilities of FPSO units, where they will be used for various heating and cooling duties.

The contract covers consolidation of development, exploration and P&A activities in the Dutch and UK sectors of the North Sea.

Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 12 and 19 million m3 of recoverable oil equivalent, corresponding to 75-120 million bbl of recoverable oil equivalent.

Rystad Energy expects around 54 000 wells to be drilled worldwide in 2021, a 12% increase from 2020 levels, while in 2022 drilling is set to increase by another 19% year-on-year to about 64 500 wells.

The 10-year master contract enables Chevron Australia to order full-service asset maintenance from AGC, a subsidiary of AusGroup, across Chevron’s onshore and offshore natural gas and oil production facilities located in the north-west of Australia.