Field/project development
Vår Energi ASA and partners have officially sanctioned the Previously Produced Fields Project in the Greater Ekofisk Area. The redevelopment is expected to add high-value barrels starting in 2028, extending the production life of one of Norway’s key offshore regions.
The company engineered, designed, and manufactured multiple internal floating roof systems and tank-top equipment packages for TotalEnergies’ new storage terminal in Equatorial Guinea.
Fugro’s entry into the UK’s small modular reactor market follows its breakthrough in the US, where it secured a contract in February to perform a geoscience site investigation for the recommissioned Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan.
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The operator estimates discovering more than 96 million BOE of recoverable volumes with its latest Norwegian North Sea exploration activity. -
NewMed has targeted the fourth quarter of 2025 to declare a final investment decision (FID) on Phase 1B of the Chevron-operated Leviathan gas project expansion after striking Israel’s largest ever gas export deal.
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TotalEnergies, Global Infrastructure Partners, and NextDecade divvy up Train 4 stakes ahead of an expected FID in September.
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The Japanese company ratcheted up the competitive nature of contracting for a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel and an onshore liquefied natural gas plant for the Abadi project by announcing dual front-end engineering design (FEED) contracts.
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Deepwater Yellowtail project, onstream 4 months ahead of schedule, is expected to produce an average of 250,000 BOPD.
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Azule’s new FPSO is the first in the world to feature a pilot carbon capture and storage unit that sequesters CO₂ from onboard gas-turbine exhaust.
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The number of high-impact wells drilled across the globe this year are expected to be on trend with the most recent 5-year average.
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BP called the Bumerangue discovery in the Santos Basin the company’s largest find in 25 years, and announced it had begun production from its tieback project at Argos ahead of schedule.
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As LNG projects sanctioned earlier this decade come onstream, a shortage of new final and pre-final investment decisions threatens to leave the project pipelines dry at a time when global LNG demand is forecast to surge over the next 15 years.
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This paper reviews best practices and learnings from floating-production-unit transportation and installation, hookup, and commissioning and discusses subsea flowlines, export pipelines, and subsea-equipment installations.
