Oil rig news

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.

Nathan Klammer and Jason Ross, Entro Industries, USA, explain how new automatic features can optimise rig walking in the oilfield.

DeltaTek’s SeaCure service provides stabbed-in, inner string cementing for subsea wells.

An ORCA for OBM breaker fluid, one of Cleansorb’s range of well treatment fluids, was used on behalf of an operator in the Middle East.