Oil & gas news

Tendeka has announced the appointment of two new members to its board of directors, Jim Nixon and Bill Wright.

In its annual account of global oil resources, Rystad Energy finds that Saudi Arabia has added enough recoverable oil resources to regain its top position ahead of the United States and Russia.

DNV GL has won a major contract to provide independent verification services for the Maersk Oil redevelopment of the Tyra Field, offshore Denmark.

Apache North Sea has awarded Expro a US$10million well services contract extension.

Ecopetrol S.A has been awarded shared production contracts for hydrocarbon exploration and extraction, along with Petronas and Pemex.

Cooper Energy has announced that Callawonga-17, an appraisal and development well drilled by the PEL 92 Joint Venture in PPL 220, is to be cased and suspended as a future oil producer.

Pulsar service is designed to deliver rigless formation evaluation and monitoring for any reservoir to improve drilling efficiency and well productivity.

Weatherford International has announced the commercial release of the Raptor™ 2.0 cased-hole evaluation system today at the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts Annual Symposium.

The new contract will run for a further three years, from 1 March 2017 to 28 February 2020.

A southern North Sea operator has awarded Claxton a combined services contract to riglessly casing cut and recover a total of seven wells.