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The accommodation rig Safe Boreas at the Mariner complex in the UK northern North Sea.

Equinor retains Prosafe rig for North Sea Mariner support

Phase 14 of the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf.

Petropars running South Pars Phase 14 offshore Iran

Route of the TurkStream pipeline across the Black Sea.

TurkStream terminal nears completion

GulfDrill will initially bareboat charter the West Castor from Seadrill.

Seadrill, GDI form jackup joint venture

The Mariner field is in the East Shetland basin in the UK North Sea.

Equinor starts up Mariner in the UK North Sea

Field Development

The Mariner field is in the East Shetland basin in the UK North Sea.

Equinor starts up Mariner in the UK North Sea

Rosenberg Worley will manage the life extension of the Jotun FPSO to help secure oil and gas production from the Balder field until 2045.

Vår to overhaul FPSO for North Sea Balder field extension

The Greater En&filig;eld project has involved development of the Laverda Canyon, Norton over Laverda and Cimatti oil accumulations via a subsea tieback to the FPSO Ngujima-Yin.

Woodside plans further round of offshore Myanmar drilling

Subsea

The company will use its vessel-based wellhead removal solution for Lundin Norway.

Lundin taps Oceaneering for subsea wellhead removal

The company will supply 18 LiftLOK ball and taper lifting connectors to lift 30-in. diameter conductors during removal of a jacket in a single lift operation.

Balltec to assist North Sea platform jacket removal

The open water Revolution valves are expected to be delivered early next year.

Trendsetter orders valves for light riser intervention system

Geosciences

The area to be surveyed is in the lower Cook Inlet, west of Kachemak Bay.

Hilcorp gets go-ahead for Cook Inlet 3D seismic survey

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OGA releases UK offshore geological data-sets

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TGS completes Spectrum acquisition

Frontier exploration license 2/13 is on the west flank of the South Porcupine basin offshore western Ireland.

Europa given more time to assess frontier permit offshore Ireland

The Barryroe oil field is in the North Celtic Sea basin offshore Ireland.

Irish government sanctions Barryroe site survey

Pipelines

Route of the TurkStream pipeline across the Black Sea.

TurkStream terminal nears completion

In the Bay of Greifswald, two pipeline ends are connected on the pipelay barge Castoro 10 in a procedure known as above-water tie-in.

Castoro 10 offshore Germany for Nord Stream 2 pipeline tie-in

Nord Stream 2 route

Swedish port ships out final Nord Stream 2 pipe

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LTHE to supply platforms, pipelines for Marjan expansion project

The DLV 2000 recently completed its first piggy-back pipelay at Reliance’s deepwater KG-D6 project offshore eastern India.

McDermott progressing Middle East platforms, pipelines

Production

Phase 14 of the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf.

Petropars running South Pars Phase 14 offshore Iran

The Mariner field is in the East Shetland basin in the UK North Sea.

Equinor starts up Mariner in the UK North Sea

Rosenberg Worley will manage the life extension of the Jotun FPSO to help secure oil and gas production from the Balder field until 2045.

Vår to overhaul FPSO for North Sea Balder field extension

Rigs/Vessels

The accommodation rig Safe Boreas at the Mariner complex in the UK northern North Sea.

Equinor retains Prosafe rig for North Sea Mariner support

GulfDrill will initially bareboat charter the West Castor from Seadrill.

Seadrill, GDI form jackup joint venture

Well-Safe Solutions acquired the semisubmersible Ocean Guardian from Diamond Offshore.

Well-Safe advances overhaul of first P&A rig

Deepwater

The Greater En&filig;eld project has involved development of the Laverda Canyon, Norton over Laverda and Cimatti oil accumulations via a subsea tieback to the FPSO Ngujima-Yin.

Woodside plans further round of offshore Myanmar drilling

The deepwater Zohr gas field is in the Egyptian sector of the Mediterranean.

Zohr gas production maintains upward curve

High-impact discoveries in the first half of 2019

High-impact exploration delivering mostly gas

Business Briefs

Specialists at Gazprom Neft’s Science and Technology Centre have used the cluster to prepare calculations for developing the onshore Vyngayakhinskoye and Shinginskoye, and field developments in the Sakhalin region are among the future targets.

Supercomputer cluster could model future Sakhalin projects

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TGS completes Spectrum acquisition

Survitec will supply height safety and rigging equipment to the Rough 47/3 Bravo platform in the UK southern North Sea.

Survitec safety service expanded for North Sea Rough platform

Peterson will support all Chrysaor’s North Sea assets, providing warehousing, transport and marine services, and supplying eight offshore materials controllers for the Armada, North Everest, and Lomond production platforms.

Chrysaor retains Peterson for North Sea logistics

The PB3 PowerBuoy is designed to serve as an uninterruptible power supply that constantly recharges itself using wave energy and operates in ocean depths from 20 m (66 ft).

Wave energy-powered buoy set for North Sea field trial

White Papers

Floating Production Units in the Digital Era: Applying Digital Approaches to Drive Operational Efficiencies

New water-repellent coating system reduces maintenance requirements offshore

High-performance plastic solutions for drilling rigs

Wind Lidars Supporting Offshore Rigs

2019 Worldwide Survey of Active Heating Projects (as of Feb 2019)

Special Reports

2019 NOIA Supplement

2019 French Supplement

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Port Fourchon

The Buckskin development

Is the offshore industry all dressed up with no place to go?

Equinor has extended the contract for the platform supply vessel Far Scotsman offshore Brazil.

Total charters Solstad vessels for Lapa project

The semisubmersible drilling rig Borgland Dolphin is contracted for a 94-day program.

Borgland Dolphin heading to North Sea Liberator field

In January 2018, Shell took the final investment decision to redevelop the Penguins oil and gas field in the UK North Sea using an FPSO.

ExxonMobil set for UK North Sea exit

Brazil propelling FPSO market boom

X-PAS is designed to help operators improve the predictability of offshore operations.

OPEX to deploy X-PAS on CNOOC North Sea platforms

The ultra-deepwater drillship Pacific Santa Ana

Pacific Santa Ana to drill for Total offshore Mauritania

The Rev field was developed via a subsea template and three gas production wells tied to the Armada field on the UK side of the North Sea median line.

PSA approves North Sea Rev life extension

High-impact discoveries in the first half of 2019

High-impact exploration delivering mostly gas

Tullow finds oil with first well offshore Guyana

The semisubmersible Transocean Arctic has started production drilling on the Dvalin gas field in the Norwegian Sea.

Drilling under way at Dvalin offshore mid-Norway

Nord Stream 2 route

Swedish port ships out final Nord Stream 2 pipe

The Garoupa Cluster in the Campos basin comprises the Anequim, Bagre, Cherne, Congro, Corvina, Malhado, Namorado, Parati, Garoupa, Garoupinha and Viola fields.

Petrobras puts more fields offshore Brazil up for sale

Installation of the third production platform for Phase 14 of the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf.

South Pars Phase 14 platform on course for start-up

The drillship Noble Don Taylor drilled the the Bulleit prospect in Green Canyon block 21.

Talos finds more oil in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico

The cable laying vessel Willem de Vlamingh

Willem de Vlamingh installs export cables for wind farm offshore Taiwan

The Aegir will transport and install 111 turbine foundations and two substations for the Greater Changhua 1 and 2a wind farms offshore Taiwan.

HMC wins second wind contract offshore Taiwan