Drilling & production - 11 July 2014

Aker Solutions board of directors has proposed to the company’s shareholders that Aker Solutions be split into two companies.

US Water Services has announced the merger with Texas-based ChemCal Inc.

Kongsberg has teamed up with OMV to deliver global real-time drilling operations support.

Roxi has announced news of a licence extension and of operational progress at its Galaz asset.

SLR Consulting has acquired CCA Environmental, a South African specialist consultancy firm with clients across the oil and gas sectors.

A selection of the best upstream articles from this week.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its oil market report for June.

Tekmar Energy is holding a series of live events to demonstrate its cable protection systems, installation techniques and engineering developments.

Chevron has reported in its interim update that earnings for Q2 2014 are expected to be higher than Q1 2012.

Sparrows has announced annual results which show a 12% increase in turnover and almost 25% rise in profits.

The International Energy Agency discusses the global effects of rising US oil production.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the US is now the world’s biggest oil producer.

The SPE ICoTA 20th European Well Intervention Conference is calling on businesses to submit abstracts for this year’s event.

Thien Nam Positioning JSC has recently invested in its first Ranger 2 USBL acoustic positioning system from Sonardyne International Ltd.

An energy industry consortium set up to tackle the challenge of enhancing oil recovery has started its mission with a meeting.

Research and Markets has released analysis of the global shale gas market, 2013 – 2019.

The world’s first training course in work class ROV operations has been launched by The Underwater Centre in Fort William.

Oil production forecasts for 2017-18 have been revised down on last year by 11% to 29.2 million tonnes.

VNG Norge AS is about to complete drilling of appraisal wells on the Pil oil and gas discovery, as well as a wildcat well on the Bue prospect.