Oil & gas news

COSL Drilling Europe AS’ COSLPioneer is set to carry out plugging and abandonment work at the Ettrick and Blackbird fields in UK.

Saipem has been awarded an offshore engineering and construction contract by Saudi Aramco.

Statoil’s Gina Krog has now begun producing, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

Ramco has bagged a tubular management contract in Australia that is worth AUS$7 million.

ONGC Videsh and Tullow Namibia Limited have signed binding agreements for the acquisition of interest in Namibia Petroleum Exploration License 0037 for blocks 2112A, 2012B and 2113B.

Dea Norge AS has received consent by Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to drill a shallow gas well on the Dvalin field in the Norwegian Sea.

Mike Branchflower, Kongsberg Digital and Jørn Kjølaas, SINTEF, Norway, explain how improvements to an advanced transient multiphase flow simulator enable improved designs of natural gas pipelines with low liquid loading.

The National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator has approved Pilot Energy’s application to replace the WA-481-P year 5 and year 6 commitment wells with an alternative work programme.

Sound Energy has provided an update on the drilling of the Badile exploration well, onshore Italy.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has announced that Statoil Petroleum AS has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7219/9-2.