Upstream news

MAN Diesel & Turbo has won an order for nine compressor trains from the state-owned Kuwait Oil Co.

The US patent for manufacturing controlled rate dissolving materials grants Terves the sole right to develop, manufacture and sell cast, moulded, forged, and extruded dissolvable magnesium materials containing galvanically active insoluble phases.

The Akwa Ibom Oil and Gas Training and Research Center will provide courses in field development, drilling and completions engineering, well intervention solutions and digital technologies to local energy employees and students.

Lambda was specifically designed to provide extended wear life in applications where chain lubrication was difficult or even impossible.

Expanded Schlumberger Reservoir Laboratory delivers comprehensive physical measurements and digital technology enablement.

Mohawk Energy, a developer of expandable tubular technology, and Innova Drilling and Intervention have entered an alliance for the continued development of analysis software for deployment of expandable system.

The West Virginia Department of Commerce has announced China Energy Investment Corporation Limited’s plan to invest US$83.7 billion in shale gas development and chemical manufacturing projects in West Virginia.

Block 49 is an onshore block that covers a prospective but still rather unexplored area in the South West of the Sultanate bordering the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

LUX Assure, specialist in chemical monitoring and management for the global oil and gas sector, has strengthened its team with two important new appointments.

Former Press & Journal editor, Damian Bates, will be tasked with providing guidance and support to the senior management team on government policy and political relations via his newly formed consultancy Abraitis and Co.