Companies in the news

Halliburton has opened its new Indonesian headquarters in Jakarta. The facility will serve as the company’s headquarters for all of its business lines in Indonesia, which provide services to support customers’ activities in that country. According to Halliburton, the facility will increase the efficiencies and capabilities of the company’s resources, specifically focused on mature field, deepwater and unconventional markets in Indonesia. 

Massy Wood Group has been awarded a five-year contract, with a potential value of up to $250 million, by BP to provide services to its operations in Trinidad & Tobago. The company, which is owned jointly by Wood Group PSN and the energy division of Massy Holdings Ltd., will deliver engineering, procurement and construction services to BP’s 13 upstream offshore facilities within the Greater Cassia and Greater Mahogany areas. The onshore Galeota Point Terminal and Beachfield facilities are also included in the scope of the contract.

Offshore Installation Services (OIS), an Acteon company, has won a contract from Centrica Energy to decommission multiple wells in the North Sea. The initial campaign includes six subsea wells in the central North Sea, in categories 2.1 and 2.2, which will be abandoned using a diverless, vessel-based approach. Planning and engineering are underway, and the offshore scope of the contract will mobilize during the summer. 

Subsea 7 has been awarded an approximately $300-million contract for Wintershall Norge’s Maria field development. The field is in the Norwegian Sea at a water depth of about 300 m. The pipeline and subsea construction contract consists of engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of 95 km of rigid flowlines and associated structures to develop Maria field. Project management and engineering work have commenced at Subsea 7’s offices in Stavanger, Norway. Offshore operations are scheduled to begin in 2016, and are expected to be completed in 2017.

Breitling Energy Corporation last month started the drilling phase of the Steller Energy Cole #1 in northwestern Sterling County, Texas. The proposed, 8,100-ft vertical well was spudded in search of oil zones in the Wolfcamp lime and Cisco-Canyon sands. The well offsets the Marathon #1 Cole that was completed in the Lower Wolfcamp formation in 1969, which intersected over 100 ft of limestone. “We are participating in this prospect because it is a target play for our company,” said Breitling CEO and Chairman Chris Faulkner. “It should intersect the most prolific zone in the Permian basin, and is in a favorable drilling area that we know very well.” 

Subsea Services Alliance, the collaboration between Helix Energy Solutions Group, OneSubsea and Schlumberger, has announced the first joint technology project between OneSubsea and Helix to engineer and manufacture a 15,000-psi intervention riser system. This jointly developed technology will advance the alliance’s objectives to offer well intervention solutions to service the increasing number of high-pressure wells in the subsea environment. The system, which will be available on a rental basis in mid-2017, is being engineered and built at OneSubsea’s facilities in Leeds, UK.

Shell Pipeline Company’s Odyssey pipeline system has transported the first crude oil produced from the LLOG-operated Delta House platform in the Mississippi Canyon protraction area of the Gulf of Mexico. The Delta House platform is a deepwater floating production system with subsea infrastructure that taps into three Mississippi Canyon fields. The host platform has the potential to tap into additional LLOG fields in the future. The Odyssey pipeline system is a JV between Shell and Genesis Energy.  

DNO ASA has doubled the capacity at its flagship Tawke field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq to 200,000 bopd. The 200,000-bopd wellhead, processing and pipeline capacity milestone was reached in less than two years, with 10 new horizontal wells and the construction of two early production facilities, with a combined capacity of 80,000 bopd, and the installation of a new 44-km, 24-in. pipeline.

BP Exploration & Production has awarded Technip a lump-sum project for the design, engineering, fabrication, installation and pre-commissioning of the new production pipeline systems on the south side of the Thunder Horse production drilling quarters unit. At a water depth of approximately 1,900 m, the current field development is in Mississippi Canyon Blocks 778 and 822, in the ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The project scope covers management and engineering; coating, fabrication, installation and permanent anchoring of two rigid production flowlines of 3.25 km, each, with four pipeline end terminations, and pre-commissioning and testing. The offshore installation is expected to be performed during second-half 2016.

Ceona has been awarded a new deepwater contract with Houston-based Bennu Oil & Gas LLC in the Gulf of Mexico on Mirage field. The agreement will see Ceona deploy its newest vessel, the Amazon, to install a flexible flowline of about 2.4 mi, and an umbilical of about 2.6 mi from Bennu’s Mirage well location, which is in Block 941 of Mississippi Canyon field. Each will be tied back to Bennu’s Titan production facility at a depth of approximately 4,000 ft. Offshore work is scheduled to begin during second-half 2015.

Proserv has completed the first phase of one of its largest contracts to date, providing subsea control systems for deepwater projects in Brazil. The firm has delivered the initial three of nine control systems that will support drillpipe riser (DPR) intervention services at depths of 2,500 m. The work forms part of a $40-million deal with a leading service company. The remaining six systems are expected to be delivered by the turn of the year, in line with key project milestones.

FEI and Weatherford Laboratories have entered into a joint agreement to offer advanced reservoir characterization services to the oil and gas industry. The companies will work together to create new workflows that integrate Weatherford’s traditional core analysis and FEI’s digital rock imaging, modeling and interpretation. These integrated solutions will address challenges associated with enhanced recovery, formation damage, multi-phase fluid property prediction and wettability characterization. “The alliance with Weatherford’s Laboratory Services group will help asset teams increase the value of both traditional and digital lab measurements,” said Mark Knackstedt, director of product development for FEI’s oil and gas business.