Upstream news

Staging its 22nd edition, OSEA2018 will be held from 27 - 29 November in Singapore, at the Marina Bay Sands.

Alba Mineral Resources has announced that the final Portland EWT sequence at the Horse Hill-1 Kimmeridge and Portland oil discovery has been completed and that all Portland operational test objectives were achieved.

Norway’s largest and longest pipeline, laid by the vessel Saipem Castorone, has reached the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea.

The contracts will see the company delivering a range of specialist services to support exploration and production operations in Trinidad and Tobago and the Gulf of Mexico.

The company’s scope will include the provision of engineering, design activities and project support services for the development of the Mishrif and Yamama formations of the West Qurna 2 oilfield.

The strategic partnership’s main scope is for the disposal of the steel platform’s integrated accommodation, drilling and production topsides.

Russia is set to reap record ruble revenues from the upstream oil and gas sector over the next six years, according to GlobalData.

Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) has successfully completed an air transport test flight of a fully assembled subsea capping stack for the first time.

Paul Smith has been appointed group managing director at UTEC Survey (UTEC), one of the industry’s leading off- and onshore survey companies and part of subsea services group Acteon.

Block Energy Plc has announced the execution of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (‘MOU’) with Georgia-based drilling contractor, JSC Norio Oil Company (‘NOC’), for the provision of a drilling and a workover rig.