The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s floating production, storage and offloading facility (FPSO) has been safely moored today in the Ichthys field, 220km off the north coast of Western Australia. The 336m-long FPSO, Ichthys Venturer…
EnQuest’s Kraken heavy oil development in the UK North Sea is taking longer to ramp up than expected with topsides equipment commissioning taking longer than expected. However, full cycle gross project capex on the field is now estimated to be about US$2…
Tendering for a floating production unit and subsea systems for the SNE project offshore Senegal is set to start later this year, Cairn Energy says. The project, which has seen 2C resources increase from 473 MMbbl to 563 MMbbl, with 1 Tcf of gas resource…
The North Sea's first floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), the Petrojarl I, has been delivered to owner Teekay after a two and a half year project to make it ready for its next deployment. The Petrojarl 1, a Tentech 685 design vessel…
KBR has confirmed that the company has been awarded the pre-front end engineering design (FEED) and project support services contracts for the development of the Tortue / Ahmeyim field, offshore Mauritania and Senegal. OE reported in…
Erin Energy started drilling the Oyo-9 well offshore Nigeria with the Pacific Bora sixth-generation drilling rig. Pacific Bora. Image from Pacific Drilling. The well is expected to take approximately 62 days to drill and complete…
The Ichthys Venturer floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility has arrived in Australian waters today (14 August), as Inpex gears up to begin hook-up and commissioning activities. The Ichthys Venturer at the DSME shipyard…
Petrobras encountered oil at the Poraquê Alto well, marking the company’s first commercial oil discovery in the pre-salt layer of the Marlim Sul area offshore Rio de Janiero state, Brazil. Map of Marlim Sul…
SBM Offshore revealed that it has inked a deal for its Fast4Ward standardization program, signing a contract in June for the first newbuild hull with China Shipbuilding Trading Co. (CSTC) and the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) shipyard…
Mobile offshore drilling units could be a FPU conversion alternative. Karen Boman sets out the details. InterMoor tows the ATP Innovator FPU from the Gomez field in the Gulf of Mexico.Photo from InterMoor’s Flickr…
In advance of OE’s 2017 Global FPSO Forum, held in Houston this month, Audrey Leon chats with the forum’s board members to learn what is in store for the FPSO sector and discover how digitalization may play a role. Aerial…
Marginal fields don’t always turn out to be that marginal, especially when you have efficient topsides and an ability to find hidden pockets in your reservoir. Elaine Maslin reports. Hummingbird Spirit…
Finding a way to tap the North Sea’s estimated 3.4 billion of resources currently locked up in marginal pools has become a perennial problem. Elaine Maslin looks at a past solution and ideas for today outlined at an SUT Aberdeen event earlier this year…
Infield Systems’ Catarina Podevyn surveys the FPSO market and discusses recent projects awards. The John Evans Atta Mills MV25 FPSO, operating at Tullow’s TEN project, offshore Ghana. Photo from MODEC…
Brazil is slowly emerging from one of its worst economic crises with the country’s oil and gas sector no exception, says the EIC’s Pietro Ferreira. Peregrino A platform. Photo from Statoil/ Øyvind Hagen…