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Most Recent Offshore Oil Field Development

Gazprom starts new offshore Sakhalin drilling campaign

Gazprom’s semisubmersible drilling rigs Polyarnaya Zvezda (Polar Star) and Severnoye Siyaniye (Northern Lights) have left Kholmsk Port on Sakhalin Island offshore eastern Russia and entered the Sea of Okhotsk.

Ensco 100 starts work on North Sea Stella wells

The heavy duty jackup Ensco 100 has started development drilling on the Stella field in the UK central North Sea.

Aker delivers frame for Åsgard subsea compression

Aker Solutions has delivered the steel frame for the subsea gas compression facility to be installed at Statoil’s Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea.

North Sea Brynhild heading for year-end start

Development drilling has started on the Lundin Norway-operated Brynhild field in the Norwegian North Sea.

Latest Eldfisk jacket in place offshore Norway

The jacket for ConocoPhillips’s Eldfisk II project is in place at on location in the southern Norwegian North Sea.

EPC to support west of Shetland subsea tie-in project

Total E&P UK has contracted EPC Offshore for support services for the Edradour gas/condensate development west of Shetland.

Exxon contracts Julia deepwater production risers to 2H Offshore

Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) has contracted 2H Offshore to do the detailed design of two 10-in. production steel catenary risers to use in Phase 1 of the Julia development in the Gulf of Mexico.

Ivar Aasen drilling rig to work through 2019

Det norske oljeselskap has extended Maersk Drilling’s contract for lease of the XL Enhanced 2 to five years.

Xcite, AMEC to cooperate on North Sea Bentley oil project

Xcite Energy Resources (AIM:XEL) has contracted AMEC for engineering support for the Bentley heavy oil field development in the UK northern North Sea.

Chevron contracts Emerson for control valves, subsea meters for Gorgon

Chevron Australia Pty Ltd has contracted Emerson Process Management to supply control valves and actuators for the Gorgon LNG Project offshore Western Australia.

Offshore Oil Field Development: Asia

Punj Lloyd to install B-127 pipeline offshore India

ONGC has contracted Punj Lloyd for construction of the B-127 cluster pipeline offshore western India.

Well to test undrilled TGT fault block offshore Vietnam

SOCO International and its partners have contracted the jackup Naga-2 for further appraisal and development drilling offshore southern Vietnam.

Sea Lion offshore Falklands approaching FEED stage

Premier Oil says 60 separate studies are under way for pre-front-end engineering design for the Sea Lion field development in the offshore North Falkland basin.

Shell lines up Boskalis for Malampaya installations

Shell Philippines Exploration has commissioned Royal Boskalis Westminster to install an offshore depletion compression platform for the Malampaya project.

Giant Liwan topsides awaiting installation offshore China

Husky Energy says the Liwan gas project in the South China Sea is on schedule for start-up around the turn of the year.

Petrofac proves more oil in Cendor offshore Malaysia

Petrofac has drilled a successful appraisal well on the Cendor field offshore Peninsular Malaysia.

KUFPEC gets interest in Galoc development offshore Philippines

With Phase II development drilling scheduled to begin in June and first Phase II production in 4Q 2013, the Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co. has assumed a 26.84473% working interest in the Galoc joint venture.

Vietnam offshore project nears startup

Talisman expects first oil from the Hai Su Trang/Hai Su Den (HST/HSD) development offshore Vietnam around mid-year.

Mubadala picks up second tract offshore Indonesia

Mubadala Petroleum and INPEX have won a production-sharing contract (PSC) for the West Sebuku block offshore Indonesia.

Nexans to fasttrack umbilical for Shell offshore Malaysia

Persada Engineering has contracted Nexans to supply an electro/hydraulic umbilical for Sarawak Shell Berhad’s F29 field development.

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