Aker Solutions Wins Hookup Contract For Johan Sverdrup

Statoil has tapped Aker Solutions for the hookup of the riser platform for the Johan Sverdrup Field.

Aker Solutions said it will work closely with subcontractor Kvaerner to join the platform’s seven modules, which will be transported to Norway in second-quarter 2018. The scope also covers planning, management and prefabrication, the company said in a news release. In addition, the agreement contains hookup options for the field’s processing and living quarter platforms, which are scheduled for installation in 2019.

The contract value is about $109 million and will be split about equally between Aker Solutions and Kvaerner, the release said. Work is scheduled to begin in February, initially involving about 100 people from Aker Solutions, Kvaerner and Statoil. That number is expected to rise to as many as 1,000 people at the project’s peak in 2018.

TechnipFMC Lines Up Well Intervention Work For Inpex

TechnipFMC said it plans to deploy its deepwater riserless light well intervention (RLWI) stack and two Schilling Robotics ROVs for work involving up to 20 subsea wells in the Ichthys Field this year.

The work will be delivered as part of an agreement with Inpex Operations Australia for RWLI services in the offshore Western Australia field for the Ichthys LNG Project, according to a news release.

“This project represents the next step in TechnipFMC’s strategy for geographic expansion of RLWI services,” Barry Glickman, president of subsea services for TechnipFMC, said in the release. “Our RLWI stacks have been used to complete more than 400 RLWI operations over the last 10 years. RLWI helps operators improve well productivity and equipment uptime, and reduce cost by shifting intervention work from rigs to lower cost vessels.”

McDermott Lands Offshore EPCI Contract From Saudi Aramco

McDermott International Inc. said it has been awarded a substantial contract from Saudi Aramco for engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) services in the Safaniya and Zuluf fields offshore Saudi Arabia.

The brownfield project is part of a wider program to replace aging facilities with electrified platforms to enhance the potential of the fields. The contract includes the design, procurement, fabrication, transportation, installation, testing and precommissioning of nine slipover jackets and decks, subsea pipelines and cables as well as the associated demolition of certain facilities, in the Safaniya Field, McDermott said in a news release. A single well observation platform in the Zuluf Field is also part of the contract.

Recently McDermott was awarded a contract to provide a fast-track EPCI solution for four jackets and three gas observation platforms for Saudi Aramco. Work was scheduled to begin immediately.

The Safaniya oil field, the world’s largest offshore oil field, is located in the Arabian Gulf.

Norway Clears Songa Encourage For Well Activities

Statoil has received permission to use the Songa Encourage semisubmersible drilling facility for well activities at Norne, Norne satellites and the Alve Field, according to Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA).

The mobile drilling facility will be used to perform well activities at the fields. Those activities include drilling wells for production or injection, well overhaul, other intervention work and plugging.

At a water depth of 380 m (1,247 ft), the Norwegian Sea field uses a floating production and storage unit tied to well templates on the seabed. Oil is transported from the Norne facility by tanker, while the gas is piped to Kårstø in Rogaland county and on to Germany, PSA said. Production at Norne began in 1997. Located southwest of Norne, the Alve Field, and other satellite fields, are tied back to the Norne facility.

IKM Secures SURF Contract For Culzean Field

IKM recently secured a subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) contract from Maersk Oil through Subsea 7, according to a news release.

IKM will construct and install underwater equipment for the new Culzean gas field in the Central North Sea. This is one of the largest gas discoveries offshore U.K., and Block 22/25 of the Central North Sea is in about 90 m of water.

Engineering work has begun on the Maersk Oil Culzean project. The first phase of offshore operations will begin in second-quarter 2017. This is a sizeable precommissioning SURF project and a significant win for IKM in an extremely competitive environment.

The Culzean gas condensate field is expected to produce enough gas to meet 5% of total U.K. demand at peak production in 2020-2021.

BP’s Juniper Platform En Route To Trinidadian Waters

BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) marked a milestone in January with the sailaway of the Juniper offshore platform, which is destined for the southeast coast of Trinidad.

The $2 billion Juniper project, which will take gas from the Corallita and Lantana fields offshore Trinidad to the Mahogany B hub via a new 10-km (6-mile) infield flowline, includes the platform—along with its jacket, piles and topsides—plus related subsea infrastructure. The development represents the first subsea field development for bpTT and one of BP’s largest projects slated for startup in 2017.

The Juniper topsides were fabricated at the TOFCO fabrication yard in Trinidad, while the jacket and piles were fabricated at Gulf Marine Fabricators in Texas, BP said. Heerema Marine Contractor’s largest deepwater construction vessel, the Thialf, is handling the platform installation.

Brazil Court Allows Petrobras To Sell Sergipe, Ceará Fields

A Brazilian court has ruled that Petrobras can continue a process to sell several offshore oil fields in the country’s northeastern region.

In securities filing on Jan. 23, Petrobras said the Federal Regional Tribunal of the Fifth Region’s decision allows the company to proceed with the sale of fields in the states of Ceará and Sergipe, although a final decision lies on a federal auditing court. The auditing court known as TCU suspended on Dec. 7 part of Petrobras’ asset sale program to improve transparency in the process.

Danos Lands Job For Hess Stampede Platform Work

Danos has secured a contract to perform mechanical hookup and commissioning support services for the Hess Corp.’s Stampede tension-leg platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM), according to a news release.

Stampede is in the integration and commissioning phase. When the platform is complete, it will be towed to its final destination where Danos said it will support the hookup and commissioning phases of the project. The company will provide support service lines that include project management, construction, scaffolding and coatings services. As part of the contract, more than 100 Danos employees will work on the project in multiple locations during the next 12 months, the company said.

The company performed similar work for another deepwater platform in the GoM and has partnered with Hess on other offshore projects, the release said.

OneSubsea Lands Production System Contract With Statoil’s Utgard

Statoil has awarded OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company, an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the subsea production system for the Utgard gas and condensate discovery in the North Sea, according to a news release.

The scope of the contract includes a subsea template manifold system, two subsea wellheads and vertical monobore subsea trees, production control system, and associated intervention and workover tooling, the release said.

The award, announced Jan. 19 by Schlumberger, follows the execution of a master service agreement between OneSubsea and Statoil in January 2016.

The companies worked together to qualify a vertical monobore subsea tree as a standardized solution for Statoil’s subsea developments, Schlumberger said in the release.

Ithaca Picks Peterson For Harrier Field Work In North Sea

Ithaca Energy UK Ltd. has selected Peterson to provide integrated logistics for the Harrier Field development, part of the Ithaca-operated Greater Stella Area, in the central North Sea.

The logistics provider said the contract, which will be managed from its quayside and warehouse facilities in Aberdeen, is scheduled to begin in second-quarter 2017 and last for about six months, a news release said.

—Staff & Reuters Reports