Upstream news

As oil and gas operators around the world continue to face increasing pressure to enhance their pipeline monitoring and security measures, Fotech has launched LivePIPE II – enhancing the world’s most reliable real time pipeline protection technology.

DuPont will deliver the technology license, engineering and equipment for two MECS DynaWave wet gas scrubbing units while KT will provide the related on-shore gas plant units in Port-Saïd with Claus and Tail Gas Treatment Units.

The Board of Directors of Armour Energy Limited has announced that Armour has been granted the exploration licence for the Kanywataba Block in the Albertine Graben in Uganda.

The company has advised that the Dempsey 1-15 well in the Sacramento Basin in California has completed the drilling phase, and a 5 ½ in. liner has been run and cemented to protect all potential reservoirs beneath the existing 9 5/8 in. casing.

Global subsea equipment specialist, Ashtead Technology, put the spotlight on the latest subsea technology yesterday at its annual Technology Showcase event.

Halliburton has announced the GeoTech HE™, a robust drill bit that incorporates new features and materials to deliver enhanced performance and increased reliability in today’s high energy drilling systems.

Leveraging GE’s Predix, the platform for the industrial internet, to deliver one unified view, this partnership extends KBC’s Petro-SIM process simulation modeling further into the fullstream oil and gas value chain.

Xanadu-1 was drilled as a conventional oil exploration well, designed to test for the presence of hydrocarbons in the Xanadu prospect, located offshore in shallow waters, 40 km south of Dongara, Western Australia.

Hyperdynamics Corporation has provided additional results from its analysis of well logs from the Fatala-1 exploration well recently drilled offshore the Republic of Guinea in Northwest Africa.

InterMoor Ltd, a leading provider of mooring services, foundation solutions and offshore installations in subsea services group Acteon, is proud to announce the completion of its tenth straight year of operation without any lost time incident (LTI).