Upstream news
Baker Hughes’ Subsea Drilling Systems and Akastor’s MHWirth complete merger
The new company will be known as HMH, and Baker Hughes and Akastor will own equal equity.
Shell restarts Olympus platform
Shell's remaining assets in the Mars corridor in the Gulf of Mexico, Mars and Ursa, remain shut in.
Petrobras begins sale of stakes in GoM fields
Petrobras' share of production from the fields in the first half of 2021 was 11.3 thousand boe/d.
Heerema removes Shell's Goldeneye platform in UK North Sea
Operations included removing the 1280 metric t topside and the 3019 metric t jacket before transportation to the AF Environmental Base in Norway for recycling and reuse.
Net Zero Technology Centre launches well P&A collaboration initiative
The collaboration initiative will aim to enable faster, lower cost validation and qualification of new technologies to deliver future well P&A programmes or campaigns.
TEMS International secures Gulf of Mexico contracts
Varying in duration from 18 months to 3 years, the contracts have a combined high six-figure value.
SPIE awarded engineering services contract for Jansz-Io Compression project
SPIE Oil & Gas Services will provide Process Automation Systems integration services for its subsea gas compression system for the Jansz-Io field, offshore Western Australia.
Oil Plus wins contracts in UKCS, India and Africa
The company has signed deals including a 12-month production chemistry agreement with a North Sea FPSO operator worth a seven-figure sum, a chemical testing project for Vedanta (Cairn India) in India and a water injectivity study for SNEPCO, the operating arm of Shell in Nigeria.
Expro and Frank’s complete merger
The combined company has assumed the Expro Group Holdings N.V. name and will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on 4 October 2021 under the ticker symbol “XPRO”.
PGNiG and Black Cat sign MoU for joint upstream activities in Arabian Gulf
The potential joint offer will include digital solutions developed by PGNiG as a part of the company’s 'Smart Field' programme.