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April 24, 2025, 11:25am
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Trump Launches Ambitious New Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program, Establishes High Arctic Planning Area ??
[quote]directed BOEM to move forward with a lease sale on April 4th. “Unlike under President Biden, we will not leave our critical energy resources locked up when so many Americans are suffering through the unnecessarily high cost of living imposed by the previous administration,” Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said.
Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse and congressman Seth Magaziner are leading a bipartisan group of senators to ban offshore drilling along the coast of New England. New England consists of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,...
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“With president Trump scrambling to grant the looters and polluters swarming around his administration every item on their wish list, I’m committed to doing everything in my power to stop reckless oil and gas drilling off Rhode Island’s coast,” said Whitehouse, who originally introduced the legislation during the first Trump administration.
According to NOAA Fisheries data provided in the statement from the senators, ocean and coastal industries, including tourism, fishing, and recreation, generate more than $17.5bn in New England annually.
PS> But at least they are stopping development of OWFs in the area to protect the whales, secure fishing grounds for local fishermen, spoil the view for tourists and stop people from getting cancer from those pesty windmills that also kill birds.
Another contract in USGOM goes to a foreign company:
UK-based oilfield services provider EnerMech has won a contract from oil and gas firm LLOG Exploration for pre-commissioning services at the Salamanca platform in the US part of the Gulf of Mexico. The contract covers hydrotesting and nitrogen...
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The Salamanca FPU, a refurbished structure of the previously decommissioned Independence Hub production facility, will operate at a depth of approximately 1,950 m of water and will produce hydrocarbons from the Leon and Castille fields.
Equinor is busy in the news today:
Norwegian energy major Equinor has sold its stake in the Peregrino field to Brazilian company Prio Tigris, a subsidiary of PRIO, for $3.5bn Equinor sold its 60% operated interest in the field to PRIO, Brazil’s largest independent oil and gas company,...
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PRIO has been a partner in the Peregrino field since last year when it acquired Sinochem’s 40% interest
The Norwegian firm will be responsible for the operations of the field until closing of the transaction, after which PRIO will take over operatorship.
“Brazil will continue to be a core country for Equinor, as we focus on starting up the Bacalhau field and continue progressing the Raia gas project. With these two operated projects and our partnership in Roncador, our equity production in Brazil will be close to 200,000 barrels per day by 2030,” said Philippe Mathieu, EVP for international exploration and production at Equinor.
Concrete Gravity platform foundations are not entirely something of the past:
Tow-out of the Concrete Gravity Structure for the West White Rose Project in Argentia, Newfoundland, Canada.
Authors: Ken Swaegers & Jeroen Scholten
It takes a fleet on tugs to complete the tow out and positioning in the field:
West White Rose Project:
United Arab Emirates-based jackup rig pure-play Shelf Drilling has revealed a couple of extensions for its rigs and some news regarding its fleet in its latest status report. The company said that its Trident 16 rig secured a three-month...
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In its previous update in March, Shelf Drilling stated that its 1981-built Trident VIII jackup was mobilised to the United Arab Emirates, where it was supposed to be sold for recycling. Now, the company confirmed that the sale of the rig was completed in April.
Several rigs, such as the Key Manhattan , C.E. Thornton , F.G. McClintock , Shelf Drilling Mentor , Shelf Drilling Scepter , Shelf Drilling Victory , and the Adriatic I, have had their contracts amended due to scheduled out-of-service time at one point or another.
PS> Lots of the rigs on this list I remember well from my rig moving days.
McDermott advances Woodside’s Scarborough project with successful FPU floatover topsides installation. SOURCE: McDermott International, Ltd
“The floatover of the FPU is an engineering marvel and builds on the safe and successful fabrication of the topsides and hull,” said Liz Westcott, Woodside executive vice president and chief operating officer Australia. “Maneuvering two structures that each weigh more than 30,000 tonnes at sea is an exceptionally complex operation. I am proud of the Woodside and McDermott teams for the safe delivery of the FPU to the integration yard and the completion of this chapter of work. The FPU is a critical piece of infrastructure for this world-class project which continues to be delivered to the highest standard.”
Following the successful floatover, the FPU arrived at CIMC’s Raffles yard in Yantai, China, for final integration works. From there, it is expected to sail away to Western Australia, where it will be moored at the Scarborough gas field approximately 375 km offshore from the Burrup Peninsula.
FPSOs are in the news a lot lately, but Falklands is not often seen as an oil & gas province:
Any redeployed FPSO would require months of reconfiguration, retrofit and preparation work and towage between a shipyard and its intended location offshore the Falkland Islands.
Sea Lion is one of the most remote oil projects ever contemplated as it is in the North Falkland basin, thousands of nautical miles from major offshore logistics bases. Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands is expected to be a main local supply base for this project and its ongoing maintenance.
Subsea installations will require fleets of offshore construction and support vessels, plus remotely operated vehicles and supply ships, while a semi-submersible drilling rig will require anchor handling tugs and logistics support vessels.
Produced oil from a Sea Lion FPSO would be exported on tankers and associated gas would be reinjected for reservoir support.
Not all speculative investment in drillships pay off:
Turkey’s state oil company TPAO has bought two sister drillships from Norway’s Eldorado Drilling. The company bought the 2014-built West Draco and her sister 2015-built West Dorado drillships, and will look to use them in Libya and southern Turkey....
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Eldorado was forced to sell them for a loss to the Turkish oil and gas firm for a reported price of $245m per rig.Zonda , West Dorado and West Draco .
The Zonda is the only rig working:
From Dagens Næringsliv earlier. (Published November 25, 2024):https://www.dn.no/rigg/eldorado-drilling/harald-moraus-hanssen/petter-a-stordalen/riggsmell-for-kjendisinvestorer-har-papirtap-pa-opptil-18-milliarder/2-1-1743377
