Drilling & production

VMC and Howden have grown their market share by reaching 1001 compressors sold in South America.

A gas leak in a contained area related to a turbine on Sleipner A was reported in the morning of 11 July. The incident was quickly clarified. During the process of resuming production and depressurisation, an additional gas leak occurred on the Sleipner R riser platform late Monday night.

A new feature used in the creation of GeoWells Brazil is an innovative core image interpretation workflow. This harnesses machine learning technology to predict core and thin section descriptions over hundreds of wells, and tens of thousands of images.

It is anticipated that a discovery at North Eigg would be developed utilising Serica’s nearby 98% owned and operated infrastructure on the Bruce platform. Results of the North Eigg well are expected in mid-October and will be announced by RNS.

With its headquarters in Warrington, England, the new office in Aberdeen becomes its second facility in the UK, strengthening its presence in the UK’s vital oil and gas industry, as well as in Europe and Africa.

The facility allows the company to stock equipment which is available for hire and deployment straight away, helping ease concerns around supply chain delivery.

TechnipFMC will continue to provide a wide range of engineering, studies and technical services to Neptune Energy. This includes installation work and operational support for Neptune’s development projects and producing fields.

VES will combine its global manufacturing infrastructure with Sledgehammer’s supply chain efficiency to create a consolidated major producer of consumable downhole oilfield products across the Middle East, Asia and European markets.

Oil balances remain tight and prices are comfortably pinned above US$100 with risks to the upside, according to Enverus Intelligence Research’s latest PetroLogic report, Supply Constraints Dominate.

GD Energy Products has opened a new aftermarket facility to increase customer service and support capabilities in the Louisiana and East Texas region.

Operations have commenced on the Alkaid oil accumulation with the spudding of Alkaid #2, the company’s first horizontal well on the ANS, using the Nabors 105AC drill rig.

The Valaris DS-17 drillship has been tasked to drill an appraisal well, plug an old exploration well and conduct additional drilling scope in Brazil.

The company has announced that it has joined the Aiming for Zero Methane Emissions Initiative, a project to cut emissions of the harmful greenhouse gas to near zero by 2030.

Equinor has initiated a safe shutdown of the Gudrun, Oseberg South, and Oseberg East fields after members of the Norwegian Organisation of Managers and Executives (Lederne) trade union went on strike from midnight.

The permits, for wells off the coast of Norway, have been granted based upon the petroleum resource act paragraph 13.