Upstream news

A/S Norske Shell has received consent to remove the emergency response vessel from the Knarr field.

The Riser Platform (RP) jacket for the Johan Sverdrup development will be ready for delivery in July and was given the name Ægir at a ceremony held at Kvaerner’s yard at Verdal.

UK-based subsea company Rovco has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Dr Iain Wallace as chief technology officer (CTO).

FRAC-CHEM will showcase its new technology at event hosted by Amazon Web Services.

The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s Central Processing Facility (CPF) has been safely moored in the Ichthys Field, some 220 km off the north coast of Western Australia, where she will be located for 40 years.

The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), with the support of Aqualis Offshore, has matched its own pre-monsoon rig move record set last year offshore India. Aqualis Offshore has also secured a new contract extension to support ONGC.

On June 19, EQT Corporation entered into an agreement to acquire Rice Energy for US$ 8.2 billion.

The suspension of operations is due to longstanding delays in the bare-boat charter payments due to Bumi Armada, as well as irregular payments on the operations and maintenance contract.

Coretrax, leading engineered servicing company for wellbore clean and abandonment, has marked an important milestone with the setting of its 200th CX-2 bridge plug.

The HEAL Systems™ company will offer producers operating efficiencies and cost savings.