Upstream news

Samoco Oil Tools, a developer of tools for the oil and gas industry, is has announced that the OneTrip® Universal BOP Test Tool has been recognised in the OTC Spotlight On New Technology® Awards.

This announcement comes after the company reached 10 000 AICD installations, in May 2015. Tendeka is now nearing the 20 000 AICD mark.

Bell Geospace has won another contract with RakGas to acquire just under 15 000 line kilometres of airborne survey data. The contract will see Bell Geospace fly FTG and Magnetics surveys in Zanzibar.

Professor Paul de Leeuw, Director of the Oil & Gas Institute at Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University, examines the impact of the UK's decision to leave the EU and what this means for the country's oil and gas industry.

Carlsen 3D (CAR17 3D) is a 5490 km2 multi-client survey in open acreage located in the Southwest Barents Sea between the Tromsø and Sørvestnaget Basins.

Total has started up production from the Moho Nord deep offshore project, located 75 km offshore Pointe-Noire in the Republic of the Congo. Operated by the Group, the project has a production capacity of 100 000 boe/d.

SIMMONS EDECO, supplier of wellhead and valve maintenance, asset integrity solutions and onshore drilling services, has announced that it has entered into a framework agreement with EDF Energy to maintain its Gas Storage facilities in Cheshire, England.

TerrAdapt bit adjusts to downhole conditions autonomously to enable smoother, faster drilling and extend tool life.

Based on the proven and seasoned NG-2500X and NG-1800X designs, the NG-5500X-LD is a solution for light drilling and well intervention in a large number of mature fields in the Southern North Sea, Middle East and South East Asia.

Wood Group has won two separate contracts related to BP’s Mad Dog 2 project providing engineering services to further develop deepwater production.