Drilling & production

Gilmore, a provider of flow control solutions, has appointed David Nemetz as its new CEO.

Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University’s SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Chapter students are being offered training to help bridge the gap between the knowledge gained at university and in-house industry experience.

Oil and gas technology development company Deep Casing Tools has secured investment of £1.6 million from Scottish Enterprise and its long-term backer, EV Private Equity.

Sophisticated imaging and deep-learning algorithms will allow the Dammam 7 supercomputer to run detailed 3D earth models, enhancing Aramco's decision-making on exploration and investment decisions.

The transaction is one of the largest oil and gas financings in Africa in more than a decade, with a financing component of US$1.1 billion.

Following completion of the acquisition Union Jack will hold a 45% interest in the project.

The contract was first announced in Maersk Drilling’s May 2020 Fleet Status Report.

The acquisition has been approved by Pioneer and Parsley stockholders.

IDS will deploy its data driven TourNet Pro drilling contractor reporting service and drilling performance monitoring service, Anova DPM, across Stena Drilling’s fleet in 1Q21.

The expandable drilling liner was mobilised when a major Norwegian operator needed to isolate the gas cap in a lateral well during a drilling campaign.

Operations to recomplete and reperforate the well at the Wressle oilfield site in North Lincolnshire, UK, have commenced.

Neptune Energy Norge has extended the contract for the Deepsea Yantai rig with an additional two wells in the Dugong area.

The field is located in onshore Concession Area B of the Sharjah Emirate.

The first cargo of crude oil from the Oryx Concession in Chad arrived in Taiwan at the Dalin Refinery earlier this month.

Over the last year, Zenith has acquired assets in Tunisia and in the Republic of the Congo.