Upstream drilling news
Northern Offshore secures jack-up for work offshore Abu Dhabi
The company has received a firm Letter of Award for the high-specification jack-up drilling unit Energy Emerger.
Sonadrill awarded nine well contract offshore Angola
The contract is for the Libongos drillship, which is owned by Sonangol.
TWMA secures £20 million of North Sea contracts
The contracts, with major North Sea operators, are for TWMA to provide offshore processing of drilling waste.
EM&I technology avoids dry docking costs
A joint industry project led by the company has led to the development of the ODIN diverless alternative for use on floating assets.
Airborne Oil & Gas to supply TCP flowlines to supermajor in West Africa
The company will provide the supermajor with a 4 km, 7.1 in. inner diameter (ID), 160 bar design pressure TCP Flowline for water injection replacing existing corroded flowlines in the field.
Lundin Norway digital drilling operations portal implementation launched
The Drilling Portal combines remote monitoring of information from multiple different systems to provide a quick and intuitive overview of all drilling operations.
Maersk Drilling secures one-well UK contract with Petrogas
The company is to drill an appraisal well at the Birgitta field in the Central part of the UK North Sea.
Halliburton introduces cloud technology for reducing reservoir uncertainty
Among the cloud applications released are Scalable Earth Modeling, Full-Scale Asset Simulation, Data Foundation and Real-Time Control – Edge.
AssurEOR programme selected as New Technology Development of the Year Finalist in Texas Oil & Gas Awards
The treatment programme is designed to maximise the performance of declining wells, reducing the need for new drilling to maintain production rates.
Gabon aims to increase crude oil production by 50% by 2020/2021
Vaalco Energy has announced that it will begin its drilling campaign in the country’s offshore this September.