Upstream news

Stena Drilling has teamed up with advanced simulator developer and manufacturer, Drilling Systems to combine competency assessment and coaching in-the-field with the On-The-Rig (OTR) simulator.

Production optimisation company, Enpro Subsea, has reported its busiest 18 months hitting its key strategic objectives with campaigns completed or commencing in North Sea, West Africa and Gulf of Mexico.

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited (‘BP’) has exercised the one-month option to extend the charter of the Safe Caledonia. Total value of the option is US$2.4 million.

Cleansorb, a leading provider of chemical well treatments that enhance hydrocarbon production for the international oil and gas industry, has announced that it has increased oil production by up to 250% from mature vertical wells in Canada by treating them with a DEEPA™ formulation that increases the matrix permeability of the rock and simultaneously remediates nearby wellbore damage.

Established in 2011, Ridge specialises in the provision of engineering and consultancy services in the subsurface, drilling & wells, subsea and facilities disciplines mainly in the Norwegian North Sea.

This milestone also represents a major achievement for Aberdeen based Enpro Subsea as it is the first of multiple deployments by LLOG of their patented Flow Access Module (FAM) technology.

Neptune Energy Group has announced three senior appointments, based in its Aberdeen and London offices.

Stable implied daily pumped rates of 401 and 414 bpd of dry 36 API oil were recorded over two periods of 6 and 2 hours respectively.

Empyrean Energy has announced its final results for the year ended 31 March 2018. The full Report and Accounts will be made available on the company’s website in the coming days.

Carnarvon Petroleum Limited has provided the following update on the drilling of the Phoenix South-3 (PS-3).