Upstream news updates

Call for papers opens for annual flagship conference.

Schlumberger has announced an enterprise-wide deployment of the DELFI cognitive exploration and production environment through a 7 year technology collaboration with Woodside Energy.

Wild Well Control has added a new 10 000 psi-rated capping stack to its WellCONTAINED group of subsea containment equipment.

Caspian Sunrise has announced that a contract has been signed with an international oil trading group for the first 29 000 bbls of oil to be sold in September, by reference to world oil prices.

geoLOGIC systems ltd. has announced that it has purchased TOP Analysis, a provider of Canadian thermal oilsands critical information and competitive intelligence.

The collaborative supply agreement for drilling motors for US Land from a major oilfield services provider.

Rever Offshore, a subsea services provider, has announced project awards and completed campaigns with CNR International, Perenco and Spirit Energy, among other production and exploration majors.

Oxford Flow, the pressure control equipment specialist for the oil and gas, water and industrial process industries, has launched its IM gas regulator valve.

Sparrows Group has announced the award of its first contract to deliver deck operations services in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) from supermajor BP.

James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS) has completed a second inspection, repair and maintenance campaign for oil and gas company Premier Oil UK.

Rival Downhole Tools has secured a five-year collaborative supply agreement for drilling motors for US Land from a major oilfield services provider.

James Fisher Marine Services has completed a second inspection, repair and maintenance campaign for the international oil and gas exploration and production company, Premier Oil UK.

Global multi-disciplined technology and engineering company, XL Group, has grown its management team to support further expansion.

The 12 month contract between Petrofac and the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) will support activity in the Absheron natural gas field, located in the Caspian Sea, approximately 100 km south of Baku.

Equinor and partners OMV and Petoro have made an oil discovery in the Sputnik exploration well in the Barents Sea.

AI-enabled solution leverages autonomous car technology to monitor the rig ‘Red Zone’.

Trendsetter has announced the completion of its hydraulic intervention project utilising their 15 000-psi Subsea Tree Injection Manifold (STIM) system.

Dmitrii Krikunov, Zyfra, discusses how the integration of machine learning technology into oil production is ushering in the ‘smart oilfield’.

RTIES is a US-based manufacturer of production riser technologies for deepwater applications within the offshore oil and gas industry.

The campaign will comprise of two wells in the Duyung PSC in the West Natuna basin, in which the company holds an 8.5% interest.

A client of the company required the replacement of ICCP anodes on a FPSO without the use of divers.

The session will centre on the innovative technology and strategies being developed to manage the late life of subsea systems.

Equinor’s interest in the Caesar Tonga oilfield is now 46%.

The preliminary gross resources from well 16/5-8s, approximately 14 km south of the Edvard Grieg field in the Norwegian North Sea, are estimated to be between 1 and 10 million boe.