Drilling & production

The Middle East faces a substantial challenge to ensure hundreds of ageing offshore oil and gas structures operate safely beyond original design life, says DNV GL.

Utah’s MCW Energy Group oilsands project is thriving, despite other North American projects failing: the termination of Keystone XL, decreasing oil prices, and other major oilsands projects that have been cancelled.

New heat transfer course offered next year in Texas.

Energy Revenue America Inc. receives US$1.7 million in financing from an international investor for the purpose of extending its pipeline and operating its wells.

Outstanding subsalt images in the Gulf of Mexico reduce drilling risk.

Africa Oil Corp. has provided an update on its operations in Kenya and Ethiopia.

Ceragon and Statoil have renewed their frame agreement for five additional years: the new frame agreement will now include the IP-20 platform.

3D Oil Ltd has stated that wireline evaluation and sampling of formation fluids over zones of interest identified on preliminary Sea Lion -1 data have been completed.

McDermott has been awarded a contract for an engineering, procurement, construction and installation pipeline project offshore Qatar.

Lloyd’s Register Energy launches new asset optimisation software solution to meet industry demand.

VNG Norge AS, operator of production licence 586, has announced it is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 6406/12-5 S.

Range has announced that the second development well of the 22 well programme, the GY 180SE well, was spudded on 4 November 2015.

Oilfield equipment market predicted to see signs of recovery by 2017.

SacOil has announced it will join the consortium of Taleveras Group, Gunvor Group and the Strategic Fuel Fund in developing the Bioko Oil Terminal tank farm in Equatorial Guinea.

Husky Energy and its partners have announced a significant milestone in advancing the Madura Strait BD gas-condensate field offshore Indonesia towards production.