
Fugro Secures E&P Support Contracts
shallow geotechnical survey. For the geotechnical site investigations, the workscope includes drilling, laboratory analysis and engineering reporting.To service a long-term contract, Fugro has installed its custom-designed FCV 3000 ROV equipment onboard Transocean’s ultra-deepwater drillship, Deepwater Invictus, for subsea ROV support at drilling campaigns in Trinidad and Tobago, the US Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico. These operations commenced in June this year and continue until May 2020.Ed Saade, Fugro’s USA President, explained that the company’s range of site characterization and asset
Lloyd's Register Extends Drilling Rig Integrity Support
Exploration begins by BHP Billiton using the Deepwater Invictus rig and supported by Lloyd’s Register’s rig integrity team. Lloyd’s Register (LR) announced it has extended rig integrity support for the Deepwater Invictus drilling rig. The company’s expertise in blow-out preventers (BOPs) and rig integrity will be used to provide confidence in how risk is managed for deepwater drilling and well exploration. Kevin Comeau, Dynamic Positioning / Power Management & Marine Safety Systems Manager at LR, said, “We have had a team supporting the Gulf Of Mexico (GOM)
Transocean's Fleet Status Updated
that provides the current status of and contract information for the company's entire fleet of offshore drilling rigs. The report includes the following: Actinia - Awarded a three year contract offshore India at a dayrate of $101,000 ($111 million estimated contract backlog). Deepwater Invictus - Awarded a two well contract offshore Trinidad at a dayrate of $350,000 ($28 million estimated contract backlog). Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 - Awarded a six month contract; location and dayrate are not disclosed. The midwater floater Transocean John Shaw is classified as held for sale
BHP Billiton & Pemex Agree to Exchange Deepwater Expertise
Gulf of Mexico – whether it’s time from discovery to first production, drilling costs, safety, uptime of approximately 95 per cent or sustaining production levels.” BHP Billiton can rapidly provide critical offshore capacity. The Company’s state-of-the-art drilling rig, Deepwater Invictus, arrived in the Gulf of Mexico in May 2014, and features world-class drilling capabilities which can be rapidly deployed together with an experienced drilling team. The Company also has considerable design and development expertise from building the Shenzi and Neptune platforms in the Gulf