Drilling & production

Andrew Speers, Managing Director at Petroplan takes a look at how the oil and gas industry is dealing with the imminent skills shortage.

A European oil and gas company successfully drilled the first complete Dopeless® technology well in Alaska in March 2014.

Statoil will increase the Oseberg Øst field recovery rate by means of a drilling campaign starting up in the summer of 2015.

Technip has won a contract for Total E&P UK for the Edradour Subsea Development, north west of the Shetland Islands.

McDermott has announced the successful completion of the Ayatsil-B drilling platform for PEMEX in the Bay of Campeche.

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) offers analysis of UK imports and exports of selected energy products.

Statoil is divesting equity in blocks 38 and 39 in the Kwanza basin offshore Angola.

Linc Energy plans to drill three wells in the Arckaringa Basin in South Australia, as part of the next phase of exploration of this significant asset.

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea were yesterday granted full membership of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

The Energy Institute (EI) is celebrating its centennial year, and has awarded HRH The Price of Wales an Honorary Fellowship in celebration.

The latest oil and gas company announcements including training qualifications, LNG purchases and new facility openings.

FMC Technologies has received new orders from Delta SubSea for HD59 and HD60 ROVs for delivery in July 2014.

Normand Vision, the CSV ordered by Ocean Installer and Solstad Offshore, has been delivered by VARD and is now ready for offshore operations.

BGF’s investment in BHR will be used to grow the company’s core consultancy offering.

OMV (Norge) AS is in the process of completing drilling of wildcat well 7324/7-2 Hanssen.