Drilling & production

Professor Sebastian Geiger, Director of the Institute of Petroleum Engineering (IPE) and Foundation CMG Chair at Heriot-Watt University has received the 2017 Alfred Wegener Award.

KOP has a long history and leading market positions in South East Asia, with an emerging business in the Middle East.

NES Sure Flow has invested in a new office in Midland, Texas.

Proserv is preparing for future growth by investing in a new purpose built technology centre for subsea controls and communications in Great Yarmouth.

The well is to be drilled in a prospect named Carmen in block 6507/8 at Haltenbanken. The site is 222 km west of Brønnøysund in Nordland county and 10 km north-east of Heidrun.

UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC has announced that 13 ? in. steel casing was set and cemented successfully over the 855 ft thick Weald Clay section on its 100% interest Broadford Bridge-1 Kimmeridge Limestone exploration well.

TechnipFMC has entered into a three-year frame agreement with Woodside Energy Ltd in Australia for Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI) and subsea services, including intervention, installation, and plug and abandonment services.

Touchstone Exploration Inc. has provided an operational update with respect to the company’s 2017 drilling campaign and recompletion programme.

Aquaterra Energy has designed, fabricated and installed a new Sea Swift platform for PICO Petroleum Integrated Services, the lead contractor for Amal Petroleum Company’s (AMAPETCO) Amal field in the Gulf of Suez, offshore Egypt.

NEL has developed a new method to improve the accuracy of differential pressure meters for high viscosity oil, which will help the oil and gas industry to reduce financial exposure and tackle the challenges involved in its measurement.

Designed for all artificial lift applications involving rod pumps, this unique device accurately measures both load and position in a single wireless unit.

The percent of horizontal rigs in the Permian grew from 14% in January 2013 to 27% in January 2015. Now, the Permian accounts for over 42% of the active horizontal rigs in the US land market.

Postle Industries has developed a cost-saving procedure for re-application of hardbanding that promises cool tool joint internal diameters and protects the Internal Plastic Coating (IPC).

McDermott International, Inc. has announced that it has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract from BP Trinidad & Tobago, LLC (bpTT) for the Angelin gas field, located 25 miles (40 km) off the east coast of Trinidad and Tobago.

The DAV MX™ circulating sub from Churchill Drilling Tools, an oilfield service company specialising in drilling innovation, has been used to significantly cut process time and costs for two challenging deepwater cementing operations, without compromising string functionality.