ENI with big gas find in North Sea Afrodite field
2008.02.20 -
Subsea Headlines
Noewegian FinansAvisen today say that ENI might have hit it real big during drilling with the rig TransOcean Leader on the field Afrodite in the North Sea. The company classified the well as a "tight well" meaning information will be restricted until test results are ready.
ENI will disclose the test results from the Afrodite well in March.
The licence holders are ENI (45%), StatoilHydro (40%) and Idemitsu petroleum (15%)
Applied Acoustics has recently announced the sale of its 50th Easytrak subsea tracking system at Offshore Europe, Aberdeen. The system is one of a pair that has been ordered by CaspianLab in Azerbaijan for use in their operations in the Caspian Sea.
The Tampen Link pipeline for gas export from the North Sea’s Statfjord field to the St Fergus gas terminal in Scotland opened on Friday evening. The field is consequently beginning a new era.
StatoilHydro, as operator of the Troll field, has recommended to its partners to discontinue the Troll Future Development project.
Petrobras Americas Inc. has awarded Aker Kvaerner a contract to supply subsea power cables and control umbilicals to its Cascade and Chinook fields in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract, worth approximately USD 65 million, represents a significant breakthrough for Aker Kvaerner's power cable technology.
StatoilHydro will today, 25th of October, sign a frame agreement with Gazprom to become partner in the Shtokman development, phase 1.