Drilling & production

An average Capex of US$3.0 billion per year would be spent on eight oil and gas fields in Mozambique between 2018 and 2020.

Range, an international oil and gas company with assets in Trinidad and Indonesia, and an oilfield services business in Trinidad, is pleased to provide an update with respect of its work plan at the Perlak field, Indonesia.

Leading asset lifecycle services specialist Bilfinger Salamis UK has been awarded a multimillion pound contract for technical manpower services on Shell U.K. Limited southern North Sea (SNS) assets.

Otto Energy Limited provides the following update on the progress of the SM 71 oil field development.

AGR, the well design and drilling project management firm, has agreed to host its iQx software on the platform, which contains information that is vital to companies selecting locations of wells.

The B15 gas field development is a maiden gas development project for Sapura E&P and the first gas milestone was achieved within two years of the sanction of its Field Development Plan.

Siemens was recently selected to supply another SGT-700 mechanical drive compression train for the Camisea gas-condensate asset located in Peru.

Analysis of global planned isomerization capacity of refineries shows that China has the highest capacity globally with 204 800 bpd during 2018 to 2021. Nigeria and Iran follow with 106 400 bpd and 58 300 bpd respectively, according to GlobalData.

Petrobras reports that its total oil and natural gas production in February was 2.69 million boed, with 2.59 million boed produced in Brazil and 99 000 boed produced abroad.

Petrofac has been awarded a contract by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) for its Sulphur Recovery Unit (SRU) Block Package for the Visakh Refinery Modernisation Project (VRMP), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Strata-X Energy Ltd. have announced that the Company has acquired two new Prospecting Licenses for its Serowe CSG Project covering 406 735 acres.

Archer and IKM joint venture opens up cost-effective pathway for world’s longest horizontal wells.

Gulfsands Petroleum plc, the oil and gas company with assets in Syria and Colombia, has provided the following operational update.

Specialist Directional Coiled Tubing Drilling Service company AnTech Ltd, has announced the launch of RockView - a technology that makes real time, high resolution geosteering possible for the first time.

Sirius announced on 21 December 2017 the delivery of its first two sets of Cameron SOLIDrill modular compact well head systems in Nigeria for the company to commence the drilling programme at: Ororo-2 and Ororo-3.