Upstream news

In support of President Donald J. Trump’s America-First Offshore Energy Strategy, it has been announced that BOEM proposes to offer 78 million acres for a region-wide lease sale scheduled for August 2019.

Seadrill Limited has announced the full-scale utilisation of its ground-breaking Medfit program across its drilling fleet.

i-Tech 7, Subsea 7’s Life of Field business unit, has appointed a new regional director to help strengthen and grow its life of field business in the Asia-Pacific region.

Latest interim report focuses on Appalachian, Permian and STACK upstream activity over next ten years.

The contract has a duration of twelve months with future follow on support executed from RDS’s central London offices

The company has been awarded a master contract to support the delivery of a subsea compression system for the Chevron Australia-operated Jansz-Io field offshore Australia.

Autonomous underwater swarm robots and micro-polymers designed to reinstate well integrity, are just some of the exciting new technologies that have secured funding through the Oil & Gas Technology Centre’s TechX Pioneer Accelerator Programme.

The company signed a deal with VARD shipyard in Norway to purchase the vessel in late 2018. The vessel is currently undergoing an operational readiness programme and will begin work in the first half of 2019.

The company entered into an agreement with Eni to acquire a 25.5% participating interest in block A5A, located in the Angoche basin, offshore the Republic of Mozambique.

The companies have announced that they have been awarded subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) and subsea production system (SPS) equipment contracts by BP for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas project, located offshore Mauritania and Senegal.