Offshore Oil

The Department of Primary Industries of Victoria, Australia, has contracted SeaBird Exploration for a 7,400-m (24,278-ft) survey within the southern flanks of the offshore Gippsland basin covering greenhouse gas storage blocks Gipps-01 to Gipps-03.

Gassnova SF, the Norwegian state enterprise for carbon capture and storage, has contracted Polarcus for two 3D seismic acquisition projects offshore Norway using the vessel Polarcus Naila.

Polarcus Naila AS has taken delivery of the 12-streamer 3D seismic vessel Polarcus Naila.

PEMEX has awarded GX Technology (GXT) a three-year contract to provide seismic data processing and imaging services for multiple offshore projects.

Swedish independent PA Resources has agreed to relinquish UK offshore licenses P1318, P1319, and P1336. In exchange, Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change has approved a one-year extension to PA’s P1342 license. It has also extended the terms for license P1529 by a further two years.

The ongoing push for more producible oil and gas reservoirs is leading the industry into greater offshore depths and harsher environments. Traditional design approaches to developing equipment and systems for shallower offshore wells often don’t work effectively in these deeper, harsher environments. How can petroleum and marine mechanical engineers move outside their traditional realm of experience to develop new designs that will improve drilling performance in these new challenging environments?