CGG Completes 2D Survey Offshore Gabon
French-based geophysical services company CGG said it has completed acquisition of 9,800 km long-offset broadband 2D multi-client seismic survey in the highly prospective Gabon South Basin.Fast-track data sets will be delivered in batches from the end of April, giving interested oil companies sufficient time to understand offshore petroleum systems and appraise blocks offered in Gabon’s 12th offshore licensing round planned for September 2019.This modern data set will help define the full extent of existing and new plays in the region. It will also aid in understanding the thickness variations
Bourbon wins Pipelay EPCI Contract for Hylia Project
Bourbon announced its first pipelay contract awarded by Total Gabon for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of 25 km of 6” rigid pipeline as part of the Hylia Water Injection Project using Zap-Lok technology. For the execution of this contract, BOURBON is subcontracting key suppliers, mainly Cortez Subsea, for pipelay equipment and Wood Group for the pipeline design and pipelay engineering. Operations are scheduled to start in Q2 2017 offshore Gabon with an MPSV from the Bourbon Evolution 800 series. ROV services and a PSV, all provided by BOURBON, will
CGG Launches Shallow Reservoir Imaging Solution
of the world. Halvor Jahre, Exploration Manager, Lundin Norway AS, said, “After successful close cooperation with CGG to develop, design and test the TopSeis acquisition concept, we view TopSeis as the next generation of broadband seismic acquisition. Results from a test offshore Gabon appear to confirm the data uplift indicated by modeling studies and we plan to move forward with full-scale TopSeis surveys on the Loppa High in the Barents Sea during 2017.” Jean-Georges Malcor, CEO of CGG, said, “CGG has once again drawn on the multidisciplinary expertise
First Oil at Aje
Panoro Energy ASA (“the Company” or “Panoro” with OSE ticker: "PEN"), the independent E&P company with assets in Nigeria and Gabon, notes the recent announcement made by its partner, the Operator of OML 113 Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited, about the first oil production from the Aje field, offshore Lagos having commenced yesterday - 3 May 2016. Subsea installation activities had been underway at Aje since January and were completed in early March ready for the hook-up of the Front Puffin FPSO, which arrived in Nigeria on the 16th of March. Oil
Wood Group Lands Prelude Deal
.” This is the second contract Shell has awarded Wood Group in the past six months. In August 2015, Wood Group PSN commenced a new five year, US$ multi-million contract to provide integrated engineering, construction, maintenance and industrial services to Shell’s four onshore oil fields in Gabon; Rabi, Gamba, Toucan and Koula
Falcon ROV Wins Over Perenco in West Africa
“For me, the Falcon is the best tool for our operations,” says Cédric Fratacci at Perenco Oil and Gas, Gabon, declaring it to be “a small, yet highly efficient ROV.” He describes how the company’s new Falcon ROV from Saab Seaeye is undertaking a range of tasks at its Gabon operations, including pipeline and jacket surveys, rig assistance and FSO inspection. It has also been deployed with the company’s diving team to remove debris from the seabed ready to clear the approach for the arrival of a rig. Later the Falcon
Complex Steel and Cofferdam Repairs Carried Out Afloat
covered an area of 18m2 and the combined length of all the welds was over 500 m. When the operation was finished, only a few reinforcements needed to be added to the inside of the hull to prepare the ship for its journey to China. Replacement of 40-ton azimuth thruster on crane barge in Gabon A Hydrex diver/technician team mobilized to an offshore crane barge stationed at its service base in Gabon to replace one of the vessel’s 40-ton swing-up azimuth thrusters with the spare. The operation had to be carried out in a very short time frame because the crane barge was scheduled to
Saipem Scarabeo 3 Spuds Aje Well
Panoro Energy ASA , the independent E&P company with assets in Nigeria and Gabon, informed that drilling has commenced on the Aje-5 production well on the OML 113 license, offshore Nigeria. The well is being drilled with the Saipem Scarabeo 3 semi-submersible drilling rig. Aje is an offshore field located in the western part of Nigeria in the Dahomey Basin close to the border with Benin. The field is situated in water depths ranging from 100 to 1,000 metres about 24 km from the coast. Panoro Energy holds a 6.502% participating interest in OML 113 (with a 12.1913% revenue interest and 16.
iSURVEY Reports Growth in Singapore
offshore personnel in the first three months of 2015. iSURVEY Singapore has continued to build its experience in the region, carrying out deep water installations at depths below 1,400m, whilst also successfully completing projects in Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Tunisia, Turkey, Gabon and South Africa. This impressive track record has resulted in iSURVEY Group becoming the regional survey and positioning contractor of choice for many global contractors.
February 2024
