TotalEnergies has signed agreements to acquire a 42.5 per cent operated interest in PEL104 Exploration license, located offshore Namibia, from Eight Offshore Investments Holdings (“Eight”) and Maravilla Oil & Gas. Located in the Lüderitz basin, PEL104 license covers an area of around 11,000 km2 offshore Namibia.
Progress on the BorWin6 Project advances with the completion of a fabrication yard in Jebel Ali, UAE. Mammoet has handled the transport, loadout, and mooring of the 5,461-tonne offshore jacket foundation, which will support the BorWin6 offshore converter platform, BorWin kappa, in the German North Sea.
McDermott has secured a decommissioning definition engineering contract from QatarEnergy for Qatar’s first offshore decommissioning project, developing technical and commercial frameworks and conducting studies to enable the safe, systematic removal of 27 aging offshore platforms.
State-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) plans to invite foreign companies to help develop recent offshore discoveries, as Kuwait looks to accelerate production and apply advanced technologies offshore, according to a Reuters report.
Italian group Saipem has announced that it has secured a new engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for an offshore project from Saudi oil giant Aramco. The work is for a 48-inch trunkline, comprising 65 km offshore and 12 km onshore in Safaniya oil field.
Worley Rosenberg has been selected by Equinor Energy for a parallel framework agreement for maintenance and minor projects on selected facilities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The framework is expected to support activities for selected installations including the Sleipner and Johan Sverdrup facilities following contract signing.
Eni has discovered gas and condensate at Murene South-1X, Block CI-501, Côte d’Ivoire. Named Calao South, the find confirms the Calao channel complex’s potential, with estimated reserves of 5 Tcf of gas and 450 million barrels of condensate (approximately 1.4 billion barrels of oil).
Eni confirms an oil discovery in the Algaita-01 exploration well in Block 15/06, offshore Angola, approximately 18 km from Olombendo FPSO. Preliminary estimates indicate oil in place of around 500 million barrels. Block 15/06 is operated by Azule Energy (36.84 per cent), in partnership with SSI (26.32 per cent) and Sonangol E&P (36.84 per cent).
QatarEnergy has secured an offshore exploration licence in Libya after the country’s first bid round since 2007. The National Oil Corporation awarded Block O1 to a consortium of QatarEnergy (40 per cent stake) and Italy’s Eni (60 per cent stake and operator), marking QatarEnergy’s first upstream entry into Libya.
Oman’s Ministry of Energy and Minerals has signed a concession agreement for Offshore Block 18 to support hydrocarbon exploration and production. Petronas will operate the block with a 70 per cent stake, while OQ Exploration and Production holds 30 per cent. The agreement includes a four-year exploration period, extendable to 30 years if commercial production is achieved.
