Upstream news

PetroVietnam Technical Services Corp. has been contracted to provide EPCIC services for the Gallaf Batch 3 Project, the next development phase of the Al-Shaheen oilfield located offshore Qatar.

The 437 km2 survey will be acquired in the NOAKA area, between Oseberg and Alvheim in the Norwegian North Sea.

Seismic processing tenders have been issued and, following review, a contract will be awarded shortly.

The East Cendor field in Block PM304, operated by Petrofac and located 140 km offshore Peninsular Malaysia, achieved its first oil production on 23 June 2021.

The Oil & Gas Authority’s UKCS Energy Integration Report last year calculated that electrification could abate UKCS oil and gas operational emissions by 2 – 3 Mt CO2 per year by 2030.

Kentech has also rebranded as Kent.

HydroVolve, based in Aberdeen, UK, has appointed Jamie Airnes as CEO and launched a new range of technology solutions built on its patented hydraulic-powered downhole engine.

Jeff Gustavson has been named president of Chevron New Energies, which will intially focus on commercialisation opportunities in hydrogen, carbon capture and offsets and support of ongoing growth in biofuels.

Sapakara South in Block 58 encountered 30 m of net pay of oil, in a good quality Campano-Maastrichtian reservoir.

A tribunal ruled in September 2019 that Ecuador owed Perenco US$391 million as a result of its takeover of Blocks 7 and 21.