Oil & gas news

Weatherford International plc thas announced the development and deployment of a high-performance cement retainer and bridge plug for use in wells in Sakhalin Island, Russia.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section has awarded a total of £20 000 to the winning students in its 2017 student bursaries programme.

Polarcus Limited has announced that the company has finalised a contract for 3D marine seismic acquisition in Australia.

Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS has commenced appraisal drilling on the Edvard Grieg field and the Gohta discovery.

This year’s 79th EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition 2017 including SPE EUROPEC, is being held at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on 12 - 15 June 2017.

Bowleven plc and Victoria Oil & Gas Plc have announced that they have signed a farm-out agreement relating to the Bomono production sharing contract.

Aker BP ASA (Aker BP) is the operator of the Volund field, in the North Sea, around 220 km west of Tananger in Rogaland county. Volund is an oil field that has been developed using a subsea facility tied back to the Alvheim FPSO unit.

The contract will see two Actemium business units, Actemium Oil & Gas Maintenance and PACE Nigeria, carrying out global maintenance on the Egina FPSO for five years.

Global energy services company Proserv has launched a new subsea sampling cylinder that can improve the quality of results and reduce risks normally associated with sample transfer.

Australian listed oil and gas exploration, development and production company, Po Valley Energy Ltd, which has energy assets in northern Italy, has been granted the large onshore Torre del Moro oil exploration licence