Drilling & production

MicroSeismic Inc. has announced the release of real-time completions evaluation.

Add Energy has recently secured work with three operators in the North Sea for the provision of Environmental Management and Reporting Software (NEMS Accounter).

Ensco plc has announced the completion of its acquisition of Atwood Oceanics, Inc.

Statoil and partners have made an oil discovery in the Verbier sidetrack well in the outer Moray Firth on the UK Continental Shelf.

Turbot is ExxonMobil’s latest discovery to date in the country, adding to previous discoveries at Liza, Payara, Snoek and Liza Deep. Following completion of the Turbot-1 well, the Stena Carron drillship will move to the Ranger prospect.

Churchill Drilling Tools, a global oilfield service company specialising in drilling innovation, and its Norwegian distributor, ToolServ, are celebrating a five year partnership which has helped oil and gas operators in the Norwegian sector improve their drill programmes.

The lightweight aluminium alloy pipe FuchRohr AluDrill significantly improves oil and gas drilling performance compared to standard steel pipes.

The market for global oil well cement, a specialty niche cement product used in oil, gas and geothermal well-bore drilling, is projected to exceed 5 million t by the end of 2017. The figure represents a 26% decline versus the 2013 peak.

The launch introduces SPACE Vernier, a service designed to maximise well life by measuring the internal and external dimensions of the entire wellbore to generate statistical analysis of localised damage and systemic corrosion.

FairfieldNodal will launch its inaugural ZXPLR survey in the Gulf of Mexico, October 2017, ushering in a new era of operational excellence for the company.

“Old offshore fields are now declining faster, and as a consequence, 1 million bbls of oil have been removed from production balances,” said Per Magnus Nysveen, Head of Analysis at Rystad Energy.

Gardner Denver Petroleum & Industrial Pumps has announced it has officially launched its Parts on Demand programme in the Middle East.

The well will be drilled from the Songa Enabler drilling facility, at position 61°25’20.34? N and 3°49’39.73? E after completing the drilling of wildcat well 7317/9-1 for Statoil Petroleum AS in production licence 718.

The FPSO was completed safely, on time and within budget, and departed the shipyard recently for the Bananal Bay in Brazil.

The company's subsidiary, Lundin Norway AS, completed drilling of exploration well 7220/6-3 on the Børselv prospect in PL609 on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry.