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Under the contract, Petrofac will provide onshore and offshore personnel and a range of technical support services. The five-year contract, which has an option to extend, starts in June.

The paper describes how a combination of machine learning and rock physics helped leverage legacy seismic and well data for the characterisation of a carbonate geothermal reservoir located in the Dogger Formation northeast of Paris, France.

bp has agreed to sell its 50% interest in the Sunrise oil sands project in Alberta, Canada, to Calgary-based Cenovus Energy.

Australia’s oil and gas industry recognises the issues confronting the east coast electricity market, and gas suppliers will continue to work constructively with regulators and governments.

A new centre for well control training has opened in North East England to train drilling personnel in the oil and gas industry.

Marine engineering and propulsion specialist Royston has completed the overhaul of diesel generators on board the semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit Stena Spey.

In a meeting in the corporate assembly of Equinor ASA on 7 June 2022 Michael D. Lewis was elected as new member to Equinor’s board of directors and Anne Drinkwater was elected as deputy chair of the board of Equinor.

The system can be run in a phased gun configuration to perforate 360 degrees of the inner tubing, leaving the outer casing with minimal controlled damage regardless of primary to secondary casing orientation.

With all offshore preparation activities safely executed and successfully completed within schedule, the remaining Dunlin structure was left ready for an efficient lifting campaign by HMC’s vessel Sleipnir. More than 95% of the Dunlin Topsides will be recycled and reused at a recycling facility in Vats, Norway.

Longboat Energy, the emerging full-cycle North Sea E&P company, has announced that the Cambozola exploration well in licence PL1049 offshore Norway was dry and will now be plugged and abandoned.