Drilling & production

Breitling Energy Corporation has announced hydraulic fracturing of its Hoppe ‘63’ #1 well in the Permian Basin of West Texas.

EY calls for governments to introduce new incentives and adjustments to tax regimes required in the current price environment to support the oil and gas industry.

The Kearl expansion project begins production ahead of schedule and production capacity increases to 220 000 bpd.

FX Energy begins drilling Miloslaw-4K Well in Poland

AnTech Ltd, a specialist in product technologies for the upstream oil and gas industry, reports that overall sales are up by 52%.

Rystad Energy examine the state of the US fracking industry.

Peterson and Veolia have announced new decommissioning facility, located in Great Yarmouth.

Upstream oil and gas deals activity, including capital markets and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), totalled US$23.5 billion from 114 transactions in May 2015, says GlobalData.

Global workforce solutions provider to supply talent acquisition services for BP’s giant Rumaila and Kirkuk oilfields.

The newly constructed machine shop will enable specialised service offerings.

Survivex strengthens its training portfolio, announcing new accreditations for three of its training courses.

ASCO has signed a contract with Marathon Oil which will further strengthen the company’s market leading positioning in the UK.

A custom designed main air compressor package, set to be installed in the South Caspian Sea has been delivered to Baku, Azerbaijan.

The combination of lower upstream earnings and higher downstream earnings contributed to higher profits in the downstream segment due to crack spreads.

Willbros has completed the initial transaction of its plan to sell its downstream engineering and heater engineering services to Bernhard Capital Partners.