Drilling & production

Four wells on Statfjord Øst will be drilled with the COSLPromoter rig from the spring of 2023.

The agreement, signed at the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum, documents the intention of both parties to work together in jointly determining applications and solutions that can benefit from the introduction of new technologies for oilfield services.

The output of the UK’s gas fields in the North Sea and Irish Sea is falling, partly because, according to OGUK, too few new fields have been developed.

The new contracts are worth a total of US$70 million.

Shell's remaining assets in the Mars corridor in the Gulf of Mexico, Mars and Ursa, remain shut in.

The combined company has assumed the Expro Group Holdings N.V. name and will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on 4 October 2021 under the ticker symbol “XPRO”.

The potential joint offer will include digital solutions developed by PGNiG as a part of the company’s 'Smart Field' programme.

More than 99% of Cabot shareholders and more than 90% of Cimarex shareholders were in favour of the merger.

The company continues to forecast that average production for the year is expected to remain within the range of 8500 - 10 500 bpd.

Some of the biggest gas flarers, accounting for over 87% of all flared gas in 2020, were Algeria, Angola, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, the US and Venezuela.

The company is aiming to expand into new markets, geographies, and sectors to provide advanced subsurface wellbore construction solutions.

A Petronas project and resulting SPE paper shows how combining human factors training with technical training can significantly improve the performance of drilling crews and reduce human error.

The Phase 2 project is expected to increase output at one of the largest fields in the Gulf of Mexico, with peak annual average gross production of 25 000 boe/d from the initial two well tieback.

The well, offshore Australia, delivered an initial rate, after clean-up, approaching 10 000 bpd and following a period of well performance testing will be stabilised at around 3000 bpd.

The biggest growth is expected to happen in the Permian Basin, where crude oil and condensate supply is projected to increase by almost 0.90 million bpd from 4.5 million bpd in 2021 to 5.4 million bpd by 2030.