Drilling & production

A new centre for well control training has opened in North East England to train drilling personnel in the oil and gas industry.

The two companies’ new joint offering – a complete asset management services package – will support a leading global chemical manufacturer to ensure safe and ongoing operations at its plant in the north-east of England.

Intelligent Wellhead Systems, PDC Energy, Inc, and Liberty have recently achieved the milestone of 75.4-hours of continuous plug-and-perf pumping time in the DJ Basin.

Equinor has, on behalf of the Haltenbanken West Unit and Halten East licences, awarded Transocean Spitsbergen a firm drilling programme consisting of nine wells and options for another two.

The N05-A platform will run entirely on wind energy from the nearby Riffgat wind farm, which will help to reduce the carbon footprint of the operation.

Longboat Energy, the emerging full-cycle North Sea E&P company, has announced that the Cambozola exploration well in licence PL1049 offshore Norway was dry and will now be plugged and abandoned.

The company has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by North Oil Company (NOC) for the Ruya Development, previously referred to as Al-Shaheen Phase 3-Batch 1, located offshore Qatar.

The investment is central to the company’s enterprising expansion strategy and forms part of its three-year guidance on capital expenditure.

The Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) has today welcomed the new Albanese Government Ministry, saying the sector looks forward to working with the new government to deliver for Australia.

Aker BP ASA has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 2/8-19.

AGR’s Well Management Division has spudded the Sasanof-1 exploration well in Australia’s Carnarvon Basin, on behalf of Western Gas.

Japan’s JGC Holdings Corporation has announced that JGC Corporation and JGC Arabia have been jointly awarded a pair of contracts by Saudi Aramco for the Zuluf oil and gas field development megaproject.

The programme consists of waterfloods and workovers of existing wells as well as new offset wellbores and lateral drilling which G2 plans to initiate on financial close.

JGC has received the orders for the construction projects for the core onshore GOSP and utility facilities including water injection facilities.

Five wells will be drilled initially, and an export pipeline will connect the platform to Prelude, which is around 160 km to the south-west of Crux. Construction will start in 2022 and first gas is expected in 2027.