Upstream news

At the 2017 Global Petroleum show, Bedrock Automation demonstrated its newly upgraded control system firmware that extends its intrinsic cyber security protection to upstream and midstream control networks.

Sercel has launched the WTU-508 high-performance X-Tech® node as an extension of its 508XT land seismic acquisition product range.

KOP has a long history and leading market positions in South East Asia, with an emerging business in the Middle East.

The well is to be drilled in a prospect named Carmen in block 6507/8 at Haltenbanken. The site is 222 km west of Brønnøysund in Nordland county and 10 km north-east of Heidrun.

Maersk Invincible is being supplied with electricity through the Valhall field. It is probably the first time ever a drilling rig is being powered fully from shore.

Petrofac has secured a long-term Framework Agreement (FA) with Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) for the provision of Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EP+Cm) Support Services for major oil and gas projects.

AWE Limited, the operator of Production Licences L1/L2 in the northern Perth Basin, Western Australia, today announced that the Joint Venture partners have agreed to commence the design competition phase of FEED for Stage 2 of the Waitsia Gas Project.

Statoil has signed a swap agreement with BP and has been granted regulatory approval to take over two exploration permits and extend its work program in the Great Australian Bight.

UTEC has been awarded a contract with world leading subsea construction company Saipem to support its operations as part of the Zohr Field Development Project.

CGG has announced that the final products from its Encontrado multi-client reprocessing project across the Gulf of Mexico’s prolific Perdido fold belt have been delivered on schedule to the Comision Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) and the industry.