Oil & gas news
Wellesley Petroleum AS: Dry well north of the Statfjord field in the North Sea – 33/9-22 S
Wellesley Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 881, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 33/9-22 S. The well is dry.
TechnipFMC awarded integrated EPCI contract for the Hurricane Lancaster EPS Project West of Shetland
The contract covers the provision of subsea equipment including umbilicals, risers, flowlines and the subsea production system for the Lancaster Early Production System (EPS) Project.
Ashtead Technology signs five-year collaboration agreement with TSC
Global subsea equipment specialist, Ashtead Technology has signed a five-year global collaboration agreement with Technical Software Consultants Limited (TSC), part of Eddyfi Technologies.
Element Materials Technology and Exova Group Ltd become one
Element and Exova have joined forces to create one, world-class global testing services partner, with the integration program to bring the two businesses and their people together now well underway.
Weatherford introduces automated pipe makeup and connection evaluation system
The AutoTong system is the world’s first technology to automate pipe makeup and to provide autonomous connection evaluation.
First offload completed from Bumi Armada's Armada Kraken FPSO
The Armada Kraken FPSO arrived at the location in the UK North Sea on 13 February 2017 and completed its hook-up on 15 February 2017.
Wood Group wins subsea contract supporting CNOOC in the South China Sea
Wood Group has been awarded a new contract by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to support their Lingshui 17-2 gas development in the Qiongdongnan basin of the South China Sea.
Altus Intervention and Qinterra Technologies unite to form new global well service company
Qinterra Group’s North Sea well intervention specialist Altus Intervention and its international technology arm, Qinterra Technologies have united to form one global force in well services.
Bell Geospace to undertake FTG survey for Simba Energy
The contract will see Bell Geospace fly FTG surveys across 12 000 square kilometres onshore in the Republic of Guinea’s Bove basin and 1366 square kilometres of the onshore coastal strip of Liberia lying within the known extent of the Roberts-Bassa basin.
Schlumberger announces new digital well construction planning solution on the Microsoft Cloud
Step change in well construction combining domain expertise and advanced digital technologies delivers a new approach to drilling engineering and planning.