Upstream news updates

The single-lift operation took 2 hours to complete from positioning the vessel Pioneering Spirit around the 3800 t platform to the moment of the lift.

The Mærsk Innovator is now firmly contracted to continue drilling infill wells at the Buzzard field on the UK Continental Shelf until February 2020.

A net 65 m hydrocarbon saturated interval has been encountered from within the Kirkham Abbey formation indicating a substantial hydrocarbon accumulation, including a significant liquids component.

Equinor’s six-figure sponsorship agreement includes supporting the current Code Factory programme, which aims to engage young people in coding, programming and virtual reality and support building these critical skills early.

The non-core assets have been divested to Sequitur Permian for net cash proceeds of US$245 million.

The new partnership will use its flexible capital mandate to directly invest in the development and acquisition of upstream oil and gas assets across the US.

HUBER+SUHNER Head of Business Unit Offshore/Energy, Frank Thorn, will address the urgent changes that need to be made in the offshore cable industry to allow for future progress.

Shell plan to use Trendsetter’s 15 000 psi 2 in. connectors to deliver gas lift service in the Princess Field located in the Gulf of Mexico.

Phase 2 of the Johan Sverdrup development was approved by Norwegian authorities in May 2019, with start-up scheduled for 4Q22.

More than 230 delegates, speakers and exhibitors from around the world shared views, debated topics and fulfilled business opportunities at the third Future Oil & Gas.

In the second part of this article, Matt Regan, GEOLOG International, UAE, explains the importance of alkene detection as a tool for diagnosing the occurrence, character and severity of bit wear in real time.

Prospex Oil and Gas Plc, the AIM quoted investment company, has announced its final results for the year ended 31 December 2018.

Adele Long, Wood Mackenzie’s Australasian senior research manager, reflects on the company’s experience of the 2019 APPEA conference and exhibition.

MJ is the third of three new projects in the Block KG D6 integrated development plan, which is focused offshore east India.

Due to continued client interest, the second phase of GrandSPAN has now more than doubled in size from last year’s expectation to nearly 11 000 km.

The Rig Rider glove is designed specifically for oilfield workers needing impact protection.

The US currently holds 293 billion bbl of recoverable oil resources, according to Rystad Energy.

The work will be performed in water depths of up to 6500 ft on different assets within the Gulf of Mexico and is currently forecasted to commence as early as July 2019.

Matt Regan, GEOLOG International, UAE, explores how the innovative monitoring of alkenes can be used to qualify real time bit wear.

The University of Wyoming has installed a new multi-million-dollar simulator suite to train the petroleum engineers of the future.

The CX-Ball has achieved over 2000 sales within five years.

Since 1996, the Sleipner field in the North Sea has been used as a facility for carbon capture and storage by Equinor as operator and a group of partnering companies.

The consortium plans four new production systems to be deployed in the Mero field offshore Santos Basin in Brazil.

The decommissioning project in the Schooner and Ketch fields will start immediately with a plan to commence offshore operations at the end of 2019.