Upstream news

Integrity monitoring solutions specialist North East Corrosion Engineers (NECE), part of the ICR group, has secured a significant contract for the provision of corrosion and microbial monitoring services on four North Sea assets.

KBR, Inc. has announced that it has been awarded a contract by PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia for engineering, project and construction management services for Chevron's operating fields in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Sound Energy, the African and European focused upstream gas company, has announced the mobilisation of a rig to the company's Sidi Moktar asset, onshore Morocco.

TechnipFMC and DOF Subsea (DOF) announce that the Skandi Búzios, a pipelay support vessel (PLSV) owned by the joint venture formed between TechnipFMC (50%) and DOF (50%), has begun its 8-year charter contract with Petrobras.

Faced with declining government revenues from the oil and gas sector after the oil price crash and looking to diversify its economy, Saudi Arabia is reportedly planning to list 5% of its state-owned oil giant, Saudi Aramco, in an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in late 2018.

West Sussex County Council have now approved details under the provision of the planning consent for the proposed drilling of the second well, the new Lidsey-X2 onshore production well at the Lidsey oilfield (PL241) near Bognor Regis in the south of the UK.

Decom North Sea, the membership organisation for the oil and gas late life and decommissioning sector, has published the programme for its flagship conference and exhibition, Decom Offshore 2017.

McKinsey Energy Insights (MEI), the data and analytics specialist that provides insight and support to the global energy industry, has released its latest Global Oil Supply and Demand Outlook, which identifies five potential supply and demand scenarios.

Tendeka has secured a two-year contract with a Malaysian Operator for the provision of Tendeka’s FloSure Elite Sand Screens with FloSure™ Autonomous Inflow Control Devices (AICDs).

Trelleborg’s applied technologies operation has engineered and manufactured a custom syntactic foam buoyancy package for the Schmidt Ocean Institute for use on its new Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), SuBastian.