Upstream news

Morris Hoagland explores the ways produced water can be reused in and outside the oilfield and the opportunities this creates.

“Adura” has been chosen as the name for Equinor and Shell’s incorporated joint venture (IJV).

Garry Stephen, Vice President, UK and Asia, Oil States, examines the new bar being set in safety and efficiency standards for drilling complex wells.

Fugro has been awarded a contract to run a comprehensive site characterisation programme for an Eni operated development of a deepwater gas project in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Supported by industry funding, Laconia Phase III, covering approximately 150 OCS blocks in the Keathley Canyon protraction areas, will be acquired by TGS and imaged by Viridien to target prospective but difficult-to-image subsalt reservoirs.

As part of the collaboration, PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd. will deploy Halliburton Landmark’s DecisionSpace® 365 Geosciences Suite and Unified Ensemble Modelling solutions with the objective to unify exploration and development workflows and accelerate time to first oil.

Nanda Boddeda, Enventure, USA, outlines how expandable liners has broadened over the years with the introduction of high torque expandable premium connections (XPC) and rotation-enabled expandable liners.

The FPSO came on stream on 31 March, while the first cargo was loaded on 25 May, shipping around 700 000 barrels to Spain.

This award follows soon after the industry’s much anticipated December 2024 award of the first ever carbon storage permit by the UK Regulator, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), to the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) for the storage of carbon dioxide in the Endurance reservoir located off the North-East Coast of England.

Mariano Guerrico, Global Technology Manager, Tracerco, describes how cutting-edge technology has transformed flow control and monitoring, showcasing a case study from the Santos basin offshore Brazil.