Offshore

TGS partnership acquiring more seismic offshore Senegal

February 19, 2020 | Offshore, Rigs & Vessels, Seismic, Senegal

TGS has completed its latest 3D survey offshore Senegal Asker, Norway | – TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA, referred to as TGS and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, has completed its latest 3D survey offshore Senegal. SN-UDO-19, off the country’s northern shore, follows the earlier SS-UDO-19 in the southern offshore. TGS will make available fasttrack data this spring with the full data-set released later in the year. The acquisition vessel BGP Prospector has sailed 200 km (124 mi) north to acquire a further 2,024 sq km (781 sq …

Italian Eni discovers new oil field offshore Ghana

May 10, 2019 | Exploration / Discoveries, Ghana, Offshore

Lagos, Nigeria | – Italian multinational oil giant, Eni, has made a significant gas and condensate discovery in the Cape Three Points Block Four (CTP-Block 4) offshore Ghana in the Western Region. The well, drilled on the Akoma exploration prospect, proved an estimated volume of between 550 and 650 billion cubic feet (bcf) of gas and 18 to 20 million barrels (mmbbl) of condensate. The discovery has further additional upside for gas and oil that require further drilling to be confirmed.   Eni said the …

Shell plans to enter UK offshore wind sector

February 22, 2019 | North Sea & Western Europe, Offshore, Wind

Shell New Energies VP says oil major may bid for leases or buy into projects London, UK | – Oil multinational giant Shell confirmed it plans to enter the UK offshore wind sector. Royal-Dutch Shell’s New Energies executive vice president Mark Gainsborough told Reuters the group “absolutely would like to get a position” in the UK market, either by bidding for a lease or buying a stake in an existing project. He told the financial news agency Shell would take an “active role” in a new …

Aker wins BP contract for Greater Plutonio and PSVM fields offshore Angola

October 05, 2018 | Angola, Contracts, Offshore, Support Services

London,  UK | – Multinational oil and gas giant BP has given a five-year brownfield services contract to Aker Solutions for its producing Greater Plutonio and PSVM fields located offshore Angola. Under the contract, the Norwegian oil services company will be responsible for the brownfield modifications, maintenance and operations support of the Greater Plutonio and PSVM fields. According to Aker Solutions, the scope of the contract includes supply of engineering, procurement, and construction services for brownfield projects on the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) …

Total Nigeria’s Egina FPSO to move to site by Q4 2018

August 08, 2018 | Deepwater, Nigeria, Offshore, Rigs & Vessels

Lagos, Nigeria | – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Total Upstream Nigeria Limited, TUPNI and her partners have concluded plans to move the Egina Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading unit (FPSO) to site in December this year. The planned movement of the facility is based on the expected completion of integration, currently on-going at Ladol in Lagos. In a recent statement, Total indicated that the facility arrived Nigeria from South Korea in January this year according to Nigerian daily newspaper, Vanguard. It stated: “The …

Canada may ask oil firms to pay extra for far-offshore drilling

August 24, 2016 | Offshore, United States & Canada

Toronto, Canada | –  Canada may ask oil companies to contribute to the hundreds of millions of dollars or more the country has to pay to an international body if they drill far offshore, according to an internal government memo. If that happens, it could make the operations more expensive and strain talks that companies will have with provincial governments, which already require them to pay royalties. A United Nations convention, which Canada ratified in 2003, says signatories need to pay the International Seabed Authority …

Italian Eni discovers gas and condensates offshore Libya

May 28, 2015 | Exploration / Discoveries, Libya, Offshore

London, UK | – Italian oil company Eni has discovered gas and condensates offshore Libya in the Bouri North exploration prospect in Area D. According to the company, the area is located 140km from the coast and 20km north of the Bouri production field. Drilled at a water depth of 125m, the A1-1/1 well encountered gas and condensates in the Metlaoui Group of Eocene age. The production test was constrained by surface facilities and during this process the well flowed 1,340 barrels of oil equivalent …