Oil rig news

Lincoln Crestal is the second in a three-well programme on Hurricane's Lincoln and Warwick assets offshore the Shetland Islands, UK.

The contract is for six high-pressure high-temperature exploration wells on two jack-up rigs in the Arabian Gulf.

Norwegian based oil and gas solids solutions firm FourPhase is to install a sand management system for an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico for a trial period.

The energy-saving marine compressed air system is to be delivered for a mid-water semi-submersible drilling rig.

The exploration well 208/02-1 on the Lyon Prospect in Licence P1854 in the West of Shetland, UK, has been plugged and abandoned.

The move follows a recent contract win and the acquisition of the company's first asset.

The Umm Lulu Gas Treatment Platform - weighing 32 000 t and measuring 77.7 m x 83.5 m - is one of five platforms manufactured by NPCC at its 1.3 million m2 fabrication yard in Abu Dhabi.

Included in this year’s awards, jointly organised by OGUK and Step Change in Safety is a new category for Maritime Safety.

Unity’s Temporary Abandonment Cap Test Tool (TACTT) was deployed to support an end of life project located in the Southern North Sea.

In part two of this two-part article, Nathan Klammer and Jason Ross, Entro Industries, USA, explain how new automatic features can optimise rig walking in the oilfield.