Upstream news

Hilcorp Alaska LLC submitted bids of US$3 034 815 for the first lease sale held in Alaska’s federal waters since 2008, Cook Inlet Lease Sale 244.

UK-based subsea company Rovco has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Dr Iain Wallace as chief technology officer (CTO).

Carnarvon Petroleum is joining with Northern Oil & Gas Australia on a collaborative data sharing project, offshore Australia.

FRAC-CHEM will showcase its new technology at event hosted by Amazon Web Services.

The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s Central Processing Facility (CPF) has been safely moored in the Ichthys Field, some 220 km off the north coast of Western Australia, where she will be located for 40 years.

The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), with the support of Aqualis Offshore, has matched its own pre-monsoon rig move record set last year offshore India. Aqualis Offshore has also secured a new contract extension to support ONGC.

On June 19, EQT Corporation entered into an agreement to acquire Rice Energy for US$ 8.2 billion.

The Maersk Invincible is now running entirely on hydropower from the shore, making it the world's first harsh environment jack-up drilling rig to operate entirely on shore-power.

Energean Israel has submitted a field development plan for the Karish and Tanin natural gas fields, offshore Israel.

Aker BP ASA has completed the drilling of wildcat well 24 /9-11 S, which is located approximately 7 km west of the Volund field and 11 km southwest of the Alvheim field.