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Subsea Engineering Associates Pty Ltd (SEA) has been awarded the contract for Define Phase engineering services for the Scarborough Development Export Trunkline from Woodside Energy Limited. This will enable SEA to utilise the award-winning ICE Platform, and enable rapid delivery of engineering and a mature digital basis of design to be carried into FEED.
A total of 48 bearings and bushings were supplied in 2014 for installation to the chain stoppers of Monobuoy’s innovative 400 t turntable Calm Buoys.
The Grand Cane, Louisiana, logistic hub boasts 24/7 operations, easy access to highways and more than 10 000 t of on-site storage, with room to expand in the future.
The deal, one of the largest acquisitions in BP’s history, gives the company secure access to new projects that can contribute on a large scale to growing its production.
Amerisur Resources Plc, the oil and gas producer and explorer focused on South America, has announced that it has signed a farm in agreement (FIA) with Gulfsands Petroleum Plc (Gulfsands) for the acquisition, subject to Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH) approval, of 100% Operated working interest in the Putumayo 14 (Put-14) block in Colombia.
PAO NOVATEK announced that its subsidiary OOO Arctic LNG 3 commenced drilling of the first well at the North-Obskiy license area located in the shallow waters of the Ob Bay. The initial well is drilled using a jack-up floating drilling rig “Amazon” leased from “Gazprom flot”. The drilling process is based on zero discharge principle, whereby all of the waste products are collected and transported 125 km to Sabetta onshore base.
Total has started up production of Kaombo, currently the biggest deep offshore development in Angola, located on Block 32, 260 km off the coast of Luanda.
Savannah Petroleum PLC, the West African focused British independent oil and gas company, has announced that the fourth well in its current Niger drilling campaign, Eridal-1, was spudded on 27 July 2018.
Adrian Lara, Senior Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on the impact on the upstream sector.
Yuri Baidoukov brings 25 years of international Oil and Gas industry experience to CGG. He will be based in Paris and report to the Chief Executive Officer, Sophie Zurquiyah.
TWMA has supported Apache on the project since 2013 and this contract award is the latest in a round of contract successes for the company.
Triangle confirms that after following the requirements in its Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (OPEP) and conducting the required safety and environmental assessments, the Company has stood down its Incident Management Team (IMT).