Upstream drilling news

Hydratight has been awarded DNV GL Type Approval for the lightweight MORGRIP® Compact Connector.

Tendeka has been awarded a project to supply the Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC) with its Inflow Control Device (ICD) technology, which will enhance production through more effective reservoir management.

MicroSeismic Inc. has announced the release of real-time completions evaluation.

Statoil and partners have made an oil discovery in the Verbier sidetrack well in the outer Moray Firth on the UK Continental Shelf.

The lightweight aluminium alloy pipe FuchRohr AluDrill significantly improves oil and gas drilling performance compared to standard steel pipes.

The market for global oil well cement, a specialty niche cement product used in oil, gas and geothermal well-bore drilling, is projected to exceed 5 million t by the end of 2017. The figure represents a 26% decline versus the 2013 peak.

Add Energy and Trendsetter Engineering have developed the Relief Well Injection Spool (RWIS) Lite.

Gardner Denver Petroleum & Industrial Pumps has announced it has officially launched its Parts on Demand programme in the Middle East.

The well will be drilled from the Songa Enabler drilling facility, at position 61°25’20.34? N and 3°49’39.73? E after completing the drilling of wildcat well 7317/9-1 for Statoil Petroleum AS in production licence 718.

The company's subsidiary, Lundin Norway AS, completed drilling of exploration well 7220/6-3 on the Børselv prospect in PL609 on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry.