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AWE upgrades Waitsia reserves and resources

AWE Limited has provided the following update on the company’s 2P Reserves and 2C Contingent Resources as at 1 December 2017, with specific reference to the Waitsia Field, located in Production Licences L1/L2, onshore northern Perth Basin, Western Australia.

 
 

Total launches large-scale development of the giant Libra field

Total has announced that it has taken the investment decision for the first large-scale development phase of the Libra project, located deep offshore, 180 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in the pre-salt area of the Santos Basin in Brazil.

 
 

Aker BP investing in technology for increased recovery

Aker BP has invested in and acquired a 17 % stake in the company Fishbones AS. Fishbones is an unconventional stimulation technology applied to increase the production rates in tight reservoirs.

 

Otto Energy: SM 71 update - drilling ahead

SM 71 F2 drilling ahead at 4895 ft MD after setting 10 3/4 in. surface casing at 3685 ft MD. Drilling is proceeding according to plan and the well will reach TD prior to the end of December.

 

US leads the top ten countries by crude reserves, says GlobalData

Unconventional oil reserves across the top ten countries stand at 9.2% (45.8 billion barrels), oil sands reserves stand at 6.7% (33.3 billion barrels), and heavy oil represents 4.5% (22.2 billion barrels) of all remaining reserves.

 
 
 
 

Tendeka secures OGTC funding for technology testing

Independent global completions service company Tendeka has been awarded funding from the Oil & Gas Technology Centre to advance further field testing of its wireless intelligent completions technology, PulseEight.

 

Petrofac awarded contract for Khazzan

Petrofac has been awarded a lump-sum contract worth approximately US$800 million by BP for the Phase 2 central processing facility (CPF) at the Khazzan Phase 2 (Ghazeer) gas development in the Sultanate of Oman.

 
 
 

Vallourec considers divesting its 'Drilling Products' business

Vallourec has announced that after negotiations run with the US oil services company National Oilwell Varco (NOV), it has received a binding offer for the purchase of Vallourec Drilling Products business, for a total cash amount of US$63 million.