Upstream news
OGIC and University of Aberdeen to give boost to offshore drilling innovations
The Oil & Gas Innovation Centre is supporting a series of projects that will help the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Applied Dynamics Research team develop new offshore drilling operations.
Bender UK enhances offshore survey and training capabilities
Bender is working with oil and gas operators on a range of control systems, electrical distribution networks and historic devices to help classify and eradicate faults and improve system health.
Rystad Energy: Brazil to drive demand for FPSO market
Brazil is set to award seven more FPSO awards in 2020.
CannSeal enters US market through exclusive partnership with Renegade Services
CannSeal’s technology is now available to US and Gulf of Mexico operators looking to extend the life of a mature well or re-establish well integrity.
Woodside Energy awards Halliburton drilling and completion contracts for Senegal deepwater project
Initial engineering work will begin in Perth, Australia, later this year, and then will transfer to Dakar, Senegal in 2020.
Wintershall commences production drilling on the Dvalin Field in Norway
The Dvalin gas field is being developed as a subsea field tied back to Heidrun, which lies some 15 km to the northwest.
Tullow Oil makes oil discovery at Jethro-1, offshore Guyana
The well encountered 55 m of net oil pay which supports a recoverable oil resource estimate which exceeds Tullow’s pre-drill forecast.
Additive manufacturing cuts lead times for Knust-Godwin
Knust-Godwin machines large, complex parts for oilfield instrumentation.
Europa Oil & Gas offshore Ireland licence extended by 12 months
The extension is for the FEL 2/13, which is located on the west flank of the South Porcupine basin offshore Ireland and includes the Kiely prospects and the Doyle Cretaceous channel complex.
COOEC Offshore and Expro form riserless well intervention partnership
Under the partnership, COOEC Offshore and Expro will deliver a new intervention riser system to market in 2020.