Offshore staff
ST. CLAIR, Trinidad and Tobago – Petronas has contracted Fugro to provide positioning services for an exploration program in block 52 in the offshore Guyana-Suriname basin.
The two-year contract involves Fugro’s Starfix precise positioning solution to help ensure safe and efficient transit, anchoring, and drilling activities for the program’s semisubmersible rig and support vessels.
According to the company, work on the contract has already begun and executing these services in a restrictive COVID-19 environment has so far posed multiple operational challenges. For example, both Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago’s international borders were closed ahead of the program’s first rig move in October 2020. However, Fugro’s local staff worked with regulators to overcome these hurdles and deliver the surface and subsurface positioning services that Petronas needed to safely and accurately position the rig onsite.
12/15/2020
