
IWCF Drilling and Well Control Training Centre of Excellence launches at AIS Survivex in Newcastle, UK
A new centre for well control training has opened in North East England to train drilling personnel in the oil and gas industry.
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A new centre for well control training has opened in North East England to train drilling personnel in the oil and gas industry.

The two companies’ new joint offering – a complete asset management services package – will support a leading global chemical manufacturer to ensure safe and ongoing operations at its plant in the north-east of England.

These new orders follow the successful integration of a Perry XLX delivered to Oceanica in 2020. This marked the first time Rio De Janeiro based company added a work-class ROV to its fleet in its 40-year history.

Marine engineering and propulsion specialist Royston has completed the overhaul of diesel generators on board the semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit Stena Spey.

In a meeting in the corporate assembly of Equinor ASA on 7 June 2022 Michael D. Lewis was elected as new member to Equinor’s board of directors and Anne Drinkwater was elected as deputy chair of the board of Equinor.

Intelligent Wellhead Systems, PDC Energy, Inc, and Liberty have recently achieved the milestone of 75.4-hours of continuous plug-and-perf pumping time in the DJ Basin.

The system can be run in a phased gun configuration to perforate 360 degrees of the inner tubing, leaving the outer casing with minimal controlled damage regardless of primary to secondary casing orientation.

Equinor has, on behalf of the Haltenbanken West Unit and Halten East licences, awarded Transocean Spitsbergen a firm drilling programme consisting of nine wells and options for another two.

With all offshore preparation activities safely executed and successfully completed within schedule, the remaining Dunlin structure was left ready for an efficient lifting campaign by HMC’s vessel Sleipnir. More than 95% of the Dunlin Topsides will be recycled and reused at a recycling facility in Vats, Norway.

The N05-A platform will run entirely on wind energy from the nearby Riffgat wind farm, which will help to reduce the carbon footprint of the operation.

Longboat Energy, the emerging full-cycle North Sea E&P company, has announced that the Cambozola exploration well in licence PL1049 offshore Norway was dry and will now be plugged and abandoned.

The company has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by North Oil Company (NOC) for the Ruya Development, previously referred to as Al-Shaheen Phase 3-Batch 1, located offshore Qatar.