Upstream news

Wintershall Dea holds participating interests in a total of nine exploration licences in Brazil, spread over the Potiguar, Ceará, Campos and Santos basins.

Lundin Energy has drilled a dry well about 72 km east of the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea.

The jack-up rig Maersk Reacher is to be replaced by the low-emission jack-up rig Maersk Integrator offshore Norway end-February/early March 2022.

TotalEnergies and Inpex have sold Angola Block 14 B.V. to the Angolan company Somoil.

Demand for shuttle tankers in countries with robust offshore oil production and limited pipeline infrastructure is set to grow continuously in the coming years, a Rystad Energy report shows.

TotalEnergies E&P Suriname, Suriname Branch has added the drilling of one additional well in Block 58 offshore Suriname to the work scope of the drillship Maersk Valiant.

The Adorf Z16 well is expected to increase Neptune’s production from the licence to around 4000 boe/d.

The contract covers a high-pressure, high-temperature subsea production system and associated equipment for a brownfield tieback in the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

In the second year of a COVID-influenced market, US upstream M&A rose 25% year-over-year to reach US$66 billion.

WorkfloPlus-Web enables oil and gas operators to transform paper-based procedures into smart digital workflows that are now accessible via a web browser, while opening up the platform to operating systems such as Microsoft Windows for seamless integrated working.