Special reports

The deal, one of the largest acquisitions in BP’s history, gives the company secure access to new projects that can contribute on a large scale to growing its production.

Scott Lehmann, Vice President of Product Management & Marketing at Petrotechnics; Dr. Mat Malladi, President of Global Business Development at Reliance; Janette Marx, Chief Executive Officer at Airswift; and Richard Ward, Senior Manager for Data Science and Digital in Oil & Gas at McKinsey Energy Insights discuss digitalisation within the oil and gas sector.

Adrian Lara, Senior Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on the impact on the upstream sector.

Yuri Baidoukov brings 25 years of international Oil and Gas industry experience to CGG. He will be based in Paris and report to the Chief Executive Officer, Sophie Zurquiyah.

Baker Botts, L.L.P., a leading international law firm, announced that it has represented BHP Billiton in its binding agreements for the sale of its entire interests in the Eagle Ford, Haynesville, Permian and Fayetteville Onshore US oil and gas assets for a combined base consideration of US$10.8 billion, payable in cash.

International energy consultancy Xodus Group has appointed Dr Tao Zhao as its new advanced engineering lead.

Following the acquisition of Exova Group Ltd in June 2017, Element has created one, world-class global testing services partner and the rebrand of its laboratories marks the strengthening of its global presence in oil & gas testing.

A Rystad Energy review of the performance of their recent projects against those of other operators shows that the three European oil giants have outperformed their peers.

Chemicals manufacturing and water and process treatment business add key capabilities to accelerate Multi-Chem business line growth.

InterAct PMTI, an Acteon company, have announced the appointment of Brian Robbins who has joined InterAct as a Senior Well Engineer.

Following the news that Mexico’s hydrocarbons agency re-scheduled bidding rounds 3.2, 3.3, and onshore farm-out round for February 2019, which was originally planned for the second half of 2018.

EY Senior Partner Derek Leith has been promoted to Global Oil and Gas Tax Lead after holding a similar role in the UK for 10 years. 

Roland Anderson, Executive VP at Cosasco, warns not to conflate cause and effect.

Josep Anton Feliu, Sergio Linuesa and Miquel A. Alós, Inprocess, Spain, discuss the application of dynamic simulation to analyse potential trips of the HIPPS system at the flare header of a central processing facility during trunkline pigging operations.

Kosmos Energy has announced that its subsidiary Kosmos Energy Ghana HC was successful in its arbitration against Tullow Ghana Limited in a dispute over responsibility for expenditures stemming from termination of the West Leo drilling rig contract.