Introduction

Sparrows Group has been awarded a five-year contract renewal with a UKCS operator, worth an eight-figure sum, to continue supporting its production across two assets, as well as its decommissioning program across three other fields in the North Sea.

C-Innovation, LLC (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has announced a one-year contract extension with BP for Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI) in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The Island Venture and team are currently mobilized and in the field working on one of BP’s assets.

The Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), the global platform of the leading gas producing nations, has activated a new communication campaign on its social media channels that raises awareness about the benefits of natural gas as well as simplifies the facts of an industry often perceived as data heavy.

AqualisBraemar’s ports & harbour unit has successfully completed its two-year involvement with the development of Sub-Saharan Africa’s first floating LNG import terminal. 

THREE60 ENERGY, a global energy services group, has been awarded a multi-million pound contract for the provision of Duty Holder O&M services to the FPSO Intrepid, currently producing from the Galoc Field, located offshore Palawan Island in the Philippines.

Subsea 7 has been awarded a sizeable⁽¹⁾ contract by Equinor for the Northern Lights project.  

National Ocean Industries Association President Erik Milito issued the following statement in response to the Biden Administration’s Executive Order establishing a one-year moratorium of new oil and gas leasing: 

Trelleborg’s offshore operation in Norway has been awarded a contract by Randaberg Industries AS, to provide Vikotherm® R3 thermal insulation for the 10 inch VFS-2 spool skid to be installed on the Hod Field Development Project, located on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in the North Sea.

Danos has been awarded a multi-year contract for production operations with a major oil and gas producer in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Johan Sverdrup field is expected to increase its daily production capacity up to 535,000 barrels of oil by mid-2021. This is around 100,000 barrels more than the original basis at start-up in October 2019.

Any doubt that the Biden Administration plans to slowly regulate fossil fuels out of existence vanished this week. First came the Keystone XL pipeline kill, but perhaps more significant is the 60-day freeze on new leases on federal lands and bureaucratic permitting. The pause could soon become a long-term ban.

A collaborative, green solution developed between Kongsberg Maritime, COSL Drilling Europe AS and drilling equipment provider NOV is poised to generate major environmental and financial savings in offshore drilling operations.

Strohm, a world leading manufacturer of Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP), has secured a contract to deliver two gas lift jumpers for an offshore project Deepwater Sabah, Malaysia.   

Odfjell Drilling will retrofit its newest deepwater, semi-submersible drilling rigs in the North Sea’s Norwegian sector with the system. The upgrades will be carried out on Deepsea Atlantic and Deepsea Nordkapp, with the opportunity to include Deepsea Stavanger, Deepsea Aberdeen, and Deepsea Yantai at a later stage.

Subsea 7 has been awarded a substantial⁽¹⁾ contract by Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (CABGOC). The contract is for the Sanha Lean Gas Connection (SLGC) project comprising the construction and installation of the Lean Gas Platform (LGP) system in Block-0 offshore Angola, at a water depth of approximately 70 meters.