Upstream news

Polarcus Limited has announced that it has received an award for a 3D project offshore West Africa, to commence early in Q4 2017 with a scheduled duration of one month.

GE Oil & Gas has signed a long-term agreement to collaborate with EEA, on the offshore Mozambique developments it operates. The move underlines GE Oil & Gas’s commitment to expand its global footprint while supporting local investment in Africa.

UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC has announced that mobile light oil has been observed seeping from open natural fractures in Kimmeridge Limestone 4 core samples at its 100%-owned Broadford Bridge-1 exploration well, PEDL234 Licence, Weald Basin, UK.

Statoil has, on behalf of the licence partners, decided that the Johan Castberg operation will be supported by a supply and helicopter base in Hammerfest and an operations organisation in Harstad.

The economics professor who leads the in-depth data collation process for BP’s annual Statistical Review of World Energy has welcomed the energy major’s latest findings as “clear evidence of a major transformation in the global energy landscape”.

The topside for the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 Unmanned Wellhead Platform recently sailed out from Heerema Zwijndrecht.

Seatronics has provided a single source solution for all of the equipment required for a subsea project in Brazil.

Seabed Geosolutions has been awarded a large 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Santos Basin in Brazil. Seabed Geosolutions’ new, Manta node system will be used.

Partnership approach secures work with major UK oil and gas operator.

Pandion Energy AS has announced that it has been pre-qualified as licensee on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.