Total has picked Norway’s Ocean Installer to install umbilicals, flowlines and risers on its Moho Nord (SEN, 32/11) Field off the coast of the Republic of Congo.

Ocean Installer will install and precommission an umbilical, multiphase pump, flying leads and spools in water depths of about 1,000 m. The scope includes project management, engineering and logistics, in addition to offshore work.

The contract is Ocean Installer’s first major operation in West Africa following the creation of the Africa, Mediterranean and Middle East regional office in second-half 2014.

The project will be managed from Stavanger and the high-capacity DP3 construction support vessel Normand Vision will be used for the offshore work.

The vessel is equipped with a 150-mt vertical lay spread, a 400-mt active heave compensated crane and two work class ROVs from Oceaneering.

The Moho Nord Field is located 75 km off the coast of the Republic of Congo in water depths ranging from 450 m to 1,200 m.

Ezra Holdings will carry out work for BHP Billiton for the Angostura Phase 3 development offshore Trinidad and Tobago in the eastern Trinidadian sector of the Venezuela Basin.

The total scope of work includes the project management, fabrication, construction and installation of a 12-in. flowline along with a complete subsea package comprised of control umbilicals and detailed engineering, construction and installation of the pipeline end manifold and inline sled.

Engineering and procurement are underway from EMAS AMC’s Houston office with fabrication of the subsea structures and stalking and spooling of flowlines to be carried out at EMAS Marine Base facility in Ingleside, Texas.

Offshore execution is scheduled for mid-2016, utilising the Lewek Express subsea construction and reel lay vessel.

From Australia (LB): Origin Energy has tied in the Yolla-5 development well to export facilities on the Yolla (32/9) platform in Victoria’s Bass Strait offshore Australia.

AWE, a 35% joint-venture (JV) partner in the BassGas (32/9) project, said production from the well had started, marking a significant milestone for the project.

Origin, as operator of the JV, is monitoring well performance to achieve optimal comingling with production from the existing Yolla-4 well and the Yolla-6 well, which was brought online in July.

“The addition of the Yolla-5 and Yolla-6 development wells will now provide increased stable longer term production capability and a greater level of well redundancy,” AWE Managing Director Bruce Clemet said.

“The joint venture is now turning its attention to the tie-in and commissioning of the gas compression and condensate pumping modules on the Yolla platform, work that is expected to take approximately 18 months to complete.”

The BassGas project consists of the Yolla offshore wellhead platform connected by pipeline to the gas processing facility at Lang Lang in Victoria.

Technip has been awarded an engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning contract by Petronas for the D18 project.

The project covers the procurement and installation of two 8-in. water-injection flexible pipes totalling 9.5 km.

The flexible pipes will connect three fixed jacket platforms which form the existing D18 infrastructure offshore Sarawak, Malaysia, in 36 m of water.

This contract is part of the five-year framework agreement signed with Petronas in late 2014 and is in line with Technip’s strategy to strengthen its partnerships with its clients to drive cost optimisation.

Asiaflex Products, Technip’s flexible pipe manufacturing plant located in Johor, Malaysia, will execute the contract with support from Technip’s operating centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The project is scheduled for completion in late 2015.

The flexible pipes will be manufactured at Asiaflex Products and the Deep Orient, one of Technip’s subsea construction vessels, will be mobilised for installation during the second semester of 2015.

Hurricane Energy’s Lancaster (31/20) discovery has been granted oil field status by the U.K. Oil and Gas Authority. This represents the first step in progressing the submission of the Lancaster early production system field development plan.

CEO Dr. Robert Trice said, “I’m delighted that the Oil and Gas Authority has granted Lancaster oil field status, which is an important step in progressing to first oil from Lancaster. Furthermore, the granting of oil field status for Lancaster helps the partitioning of Hurricane's other discoveries and prospects that sit within Licence P1368.”

N-Sea Offshore said it has completed work on Maersk Oil UK’s 2015 subsea inspection programme.

The workscope involved four field locations in the North Sea and utilised N-Sea’s inspection, maintenance and repair and subsea capabilities over 135 days.

The Siem N-Sea was used for the work and to combine ROV inspection services with IMR diving works. The vessel is part of N-Sea’s fleet of dive, multisupport and construction vessels designed to deliver a range of subsea services for offshore assets, platforms, FPSOs and renewables operations.

Apache has exercised the first of two options to extend its existing contract with Archer for the provision of platform drilling services for a further year.

Archer currently operates 33 platforms in the North Sea, Greece and Brazil, including platform drilling services on the Forties Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta platforms along with the Beryl Alpha and Bravo installations.

Bibby Offshore is taking advantage of the growing market for decommissioning and has delivered two multimillion-pound contracts in the U.K. North Sea this year.

Endeavour Energy appointed Bibby Offshore to carry out work in the Renee and Rubie (32/6) fields located in blocks 15/27 and 15/28 of the Central North Sea.

The 60-day agreement, which was completed in third-quarter 2015, involved Bibby Offshore’s dive support vessel (DSV) Bibby Sapphire and construction support vessel Olympic Ares, completing the recovery of subsea equipment including cross-over structures, umbilicals and protection mattresses.

Bibby Offshore also successfully completed work for Tullow throughout April and May, utilising DSV Bibby Topaz to perform decommissioning operations at the Orwell and Wissey (31/19) subsea installations, including the tie-ins at the Thames, Horne and Wren platforms, in Block 49/28 of the Southern North Sea.

Nexans has been awarded the contract to deliver 48 km of static umbilicals to BP and partner DEA for the West Nile Delta Taurus Libra (32/10) project in Egypt.

The Taurus Libra development is a subsea project tied in to existing BG Group operated Burullus facilities.

The umbilicals consist of electrical and fibre-optic cables as well as hydraulic and chemical lines. They will be designed, engineered and manufactured at Nexans’ specialised subsea cable and umbilical facilities in Halden and Rognan, Norway. Nexans also will deliver accessories for this project. The delivery will take place in May 2016.

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