Drilling & production

New drilling assessment for Atlas clients within OPITO Skills Screening tool.

To execute the campaign, HydraWell will utilise its HydraHemeraTM Perf, Wash and Cement (PWC®) jetting system, which can install a rock-to-rock barrier in two days.

Recent developments bring new capabilities within each individual solution while offering increasingly integrated workflows from geology and geophysics to reservoir engineering.

Project Icewine Operations Update 3D seismic acquisition has commenced across the Western Margin of the Project Icewine acreage, located on the North Slope of Alaska. The 3D seismic will firm up drilling candidates identified on conventional prospectivity from interpretation of ~2350 line km of modern (88E, 2016) and reprocessed 2D seismic data.

Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. announces that during the current open hole wireline logging and subsequent reaming (cleaning the well bore) operations, Zion encountered free-flowing hydrocarbons while circulating drilling mud.

Shallow water projects will be responsible for over 92% of upstream CAPEX.

A key project milestone has been achieved, with completion of buoy 'dry' trial fit testing operations by Bluewater Energy Services BV and Dubai Drydocks World, LLC.

TAG Oil Ltd. has provided a positive update on its Pukatea-1 exploration well, which was spudded on January 24, 2018. The Pukatea-1 well is located in TAG Oil’s operated Puka permit (PEP 51135, 70% TAG Oil) in the Taranaki Basin of New Zealand.

DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG announces a significant increase of production from its oil fields in the Gulf of Suez and from the Disouq gas fields in the Onshore Nile Delta. The next phase of the West Nile Delta (WND) development is intended to contribute to the company's target. DEA plans to invest about US$500 million in Egypt during the coming three years.

The company will deliver two modules for water and chemical injection from its yard in Egersund on the west coast of Norway, while its facility in Sandnessjøen in northern Norway will supply smaller modules and a flare boom.

SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has provided an operations update.

Mayan, the AIM listed oil and gas company, has announced the initiation of production at the Gilbreath #19 well at Forest Hill Field, Wood County, Texas and the Morris #1 well at Stockdale Field, Wilson County, Texas.

Russian and Norwegian gas exports to Europe (including Turkey) reached 194 billion m3 and 122 billion m3, respectively, in 2017.

Spending is predicted to top in 2021, at US$20.5 billion, according to GlobalData.

The contract is part of Saudi Aramco’s multi-billion dollar Marjan Crude Increment Program; one of the company’s oil and gas mega-projects designed to enhance its energy sustainability, diversify the economy, expand gas production, and localise domestic content.