Total E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 554, offshore Norway, has completed drilling and testing of appraisal well 34/6-3 S on the “Garantiana” discovery and the wildcat sidetrack well 34/6-3 A have been completed. According to Det norske, a partner in the production license, the update
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (October 27 – November 02). Technip has been awarded a large engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPCI) contract by EnQuest for the Kraken development located in the North Sea
Pacific Drilling S.A. has signed a revolving credit facility with an aggregate principal amount of up to $500 million. Prior to delivery of the Pacific Zonda drillship, up to $350 million is available under the $500 million revolving credit facility. The remaining $150 million will become available
The building of the Fehmarnbelt link is moving ever closer. In just over a year, contractors are expected to begin construction of the world’s longest immersed tunnel. As result, a number of detailed surveys of the seabed off the shores of Fehmarn and Lolland need to be carried out. The studies will
DONG Energy has divested 5% of its UK Edradour field stake to Total E&P UK Limited. Prior to this divestment Total owned 75% of Edradour development, with DONG owning the rest. Earlier this year Total, together with its partner DONG Energy, launched the development of the Edrodour gas filed. The Edr
Songa Offshore SE has announced that the documentation for the USD 1.1 billion senior secured credit facility for the financing of the last two Cat D drilling rigs, Songa Encourage and Songa Enabler, has been completed and the loan agreements have been signed by all parties. The financing consists o
DONG Energy has agreed to divest 5% of the UK Edradour field to Total E&P UK Limited. The divestment, when completed, will result in an aligned DONG Energy participation of 20% in the four UK West of Shetland fields, Laggan, Tormore, Edradour and Glenlivet. Total is the sole co-owner (80%) and opera
Dutch Gate LNG terminal has signed a financing agreement with the European Investment Bank.
Huisman Equipment has installed a 800mt Multi-lay tower onboard Ezra’s Lewek Constellation. Huisman has reported through the company’s Facebook page that the 3,000mt Huisman Offshore Mast Crane onboard the vessel and the Matador 3 were used to install the tower which is capable to do both Reel lay a
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has successfully completed its contract supporting the decommissioning of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s Red Hawk spar in the Gulf of Mexico. The Red Hawk spar is the deepest floating production platform to date to be decommissioned in the Gulf of Mexico. It is also t
Tekmar Energy, has been awarded a major contract by VBMS to supply its latest innovation, TekTube, to the prestigious Westermeerwind near-shore wind farm project in the Netherlands. The contract award comes less than three months after the company demonstrated TekTube at the Offshore Renewable Energ
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use Songa Dee for well plugging at Gullfaks Sør, in the North Sea. Statoil is the operator at Gullfaks Sør, located in block 34/10 in the northern part of the North Sea. The field has been developed using a subsea solut
Lundin Petroleum has announced that drilling of exploration well 6405/12-1 in PL584, in the Norwegian Sea, has started. Lundin says the well will investigate the hydrocarbon potential of the Lindarormen prospect in PL584, located 150 km northwest of Kristiansund on the Norwegian coast and approximat
Kongsberg Maritime Embient, with KONGSBERG partner company Contros Systems and Solutions, has been selected to develop and deliver innovative technologies and strategies for environmental monitoring during Gas Hydrate exploration and production as part of the EU ‘SUGAR’ (Submarine Gas Hydrate Reserv
