Oil & gas news

Aberdeen-based Zenith Energy Limited has announced that it has acquired recruitment specialist Prodrill Energy Resource Solutions. Louise Wood will lead the existing team as Recruitment Director.

On 25 April, Wintershall Dea announced a significant oil discovery in Mexico in the Kan prospect in the offshore Block 30.

The company has announced that it is working with TotalEnergies to implement a robot fleet management system, driving autonomous operations for its offshore platforms.

Digital twin software provider Aize and bp have agreed to extend their partnership to all five of bp’s North Sea oil and gas assets.

Halliburton Testing and Subsea Nigeria is celebrating two significant milestones: an early production facility recently processed its 10 millionth barrel of oil. The team also reached the milestone with zero lost-time incident (LTI) days.

The company has been awarded work in Kuwait for the first time. The two scopes cover maintenance and provision of certificates of conformance for onshore rigs across sites for two clients.

According to Wood Mackenzie, Sakarya Phase One will put a sizeable dent into the country’s energy import bill, which reached US$97 billion in 2022.

The well was drilled about 5 km west of the Gudrun field in the North Sea, and about 230 km west of Stavanger.

As companies in the energy sector struggle to find the balance between satisfying shareholder returns and meeting stakeholder low-carbon demands, new strategies are emerging that could be the catalyst to drive capital allocation decisions toward growth and closing valuation gaps, according to a new Horizons report from Wood Mackenzie.

With a gross production capacity of up to 140 000 bpd, Argos is bp’s fifth platform in the Gulf of Mexico and the first new bp-operated production facility in the region since 2008.