Upstream news

Newest Board Member brings over 30 years of oil and gas procurement expertise to the company.

UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC has announced that 13 ? in. steel casing was set and cemented successfully over the 855 ft thick Weald Clay section on its 100% interest Broadford Bridge-1 Kimmeridge Limestone exploration well.

TechnipFMC has entered into a three-year frame agreement with Woodside Energy Ltd in Australia for Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI) and subsea services, including intervention, installation, and plug and abandonment services.

Touchstone Exploration Inc. has provided an operational update with respect to the company’s 2017 drilling campaign and recompletion programme.

Aquaterra Energy has designed, fabricated and installed a new Sea Swift platform for PICO Petroleum Integrated Services, the lead contractor for Amal Petroleum Company’s (AMAPETCO) Amal field in the Gulf of Suez, offshore Egypt.

NEL has developed a new method to improve the accuracy of differential pressure meters for high viscosity oil, which will help the oil and gas industry to reduce financial exposure and tackle the challenges involved in its measurement.

Designed for all artificial lift applications involving rod pumps, this unique device accurately measures both load and position in a single wireless unit.

With a maiden voyage that takes her to the deep waters of Ireland’s Atlantic margin and the far North of the Barents Sea, Fugro Venturer is the newest of Fugro’s purpose-designed, standardised survey vessels, originally formulated in 2013.

The percent of horizontal rigs in the Permian grew from 14% in January 2013 to 27% in January 2015. Now, the Permian accounts for over 42% of the active horizontal rigs in the US land market.

Postle Industries has developed a cost-saving procedure for re-application of hardbanding that promises cool tool joint internal diameters and protects the Internal Plastic Coating (IPC).