Upstream news updates

Egill Abrahamsen, Vice President and Principle Drilling & Well Specialist, Sekal AS, Norway, details how advanced, real-time predictive monitoring systems are transforming offshore drilling operations.

Share buybacks at risk as companies face toughest strategic balancing act yet.

The certification applies to Saipem’s entire offshore asset portfolio, including construction vessels, drilling ships and platforms, floating production and storage units, as well as related onboard equipment – such as pipe-handling systems, cranes, mobile equipment and ROVs – and support activities at logistics bases and offices.

Viridien successfully completes BM-S-2 seismic reimaging project in the southern Santos Basin.

This latest addition to the 6700 Friction Flow Loop product line delivers advanced testing capabilities in a portable, space-saving design.

EZOps partners with Midland College to empower future oilfield workforce with digital technology.

Saipem announces that Aker BP has exercised a new option to extend the contract for the semi-submersible drilling unit Scarabeo 8, prolonging its deployment for an additional year.

The Trump administration this week tried to browbeat European Union leaders, claiming that regulations limiting methane emissions from the production of imported natural gas hurt US companies exporting that gas.

Introducing a new era of Drill Cuttings Treatment in the United Arab Emirates as TWMA begins operations at its newly constructed treatment facility in Habshan, Abu Dhabi.

Every so often, an industry reaches a point where it becomes clear that the old way of working is no longer enough. Not because people lack competence or commitment, but because the tools have failed to evolve at the same pace as the responsibility placed upon them. For hazardous area inspection, that moment is now!

Oil and gas companies in the UK, Canada and Australia are failing to fully disclose the costs of decommissioning their fossil-fuel-related infrastructure, leaving investors with incomplete and non-comparable information.

Water will be injected to displace additional oil in the reservoir formation which supplies production to Shell’s Ursa platform in the Mars Corridor.

The contract has a firm duration of five years, running until end of October 2030, with options to extend for up to an additional four years.

The deal marks the fourth large-scale multi-gas monitor changeout delivered by Dräger for same client.

Watson Farley & Williams advised Borr Drilling Limited on the acquisition.

EU-Energy Community energy market integration pre-accession has become a mutual economic, climate, and security imperative.

EU Energy Commissioner speaks on Montel’s podcast.

Michael Weidenfeller, Product Strategy Manager for Drilling and Mobile Power Applications, Caterpillar Oil & Gas, highlights how fuel-flexible dual-fuel engine technology is an important and reliable solution to reduce diesel consumption on oil and gas rigs.

bp has successfully delivered first oil from the Atlantis Drill Center 1 expansion.

Wood Mackenzie releases five charts that spotlight the most significant trends reshaping the sector globally.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced plans to modernise its core short-term forecasting system.

New wave of consolidation is coming for small- and medium- sized US shale producers.

TotalEnergies and Galp agreed to launch an exploration and appraisal campaign including three wells over the next two years, with a first well planned in 2026, to further derisk resources and progress diligently toward the development of the Mopane discovery.

Demonstrating its commitment to helping operators achieve higher production performance in the Middle East, ProSep, a provider of field-proven process separation solutions, has announced receipt of a new contract for its proprietary mixing technology.