Upstream news

Expro has been awarded a five year contract extension for surface well testing services across several assets for an operator in the UK North Sea.

CGG has announced the delivery of the final time-processed data from its Northern Viking Graben multi-client 3D BroadSeis™-BroadSource™ survey. This includes 35 000 sq. km of subsurface images across the Norwegian Northern North Sea.

Consent has been given to drill exploration well 6506/11-10 in a prospect named Hades & Iris.

GC Rieber Shipping ASA's 50% owned geoservices company Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a 3D broadband marine seismic acquisition contract by ONGC for the planned 2017/2018 field season.

Within the partnership, Fotech Solutions will contribute DAS measurement solutions and Sercel will contribute downhole seismic tools & software for subsurface seismic operations.

The specialist well abandonment company has secured a three-year framework agreement with TAQA Bratani Limited for the provision of intervention management services for all their North Sea assets.

The company’s ERRV Ocean Troll, will provide Emergency Response and Rescue services for Maersk Oil’s Culzean project in the central North Sea. The Charter is the first Fire Fighting Class II (Fi-Fi II) ERRV to have operated in the UK sector.

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.