Upstream project news

TWI and DNV GL are aiming to address the significant challenge of corrosion in downhole tubing and casing applications in the oil and gas industry.

The new phase of the project, based on the successful completion of a design study last year, will include the design, build and test of enabling technologies that are the backbone of Upwing’s Magnetic Drive System concept for a reliable and retrievable electric submersible pump.

Efforts to find an additional partner for the drilling of the next well in blocks A2 and A5 are ongoing, with FAR working to conclude a farm-out before the restart of the drilling operations.

The platform enabled the customer to automate production monitoring, analysis, and optimisation asset-wide for 1700 electric submersible pump wells.

The field will be redeveloped by installing a new wellhead platform tied in to the Valhall field centre.

Neptune Energy have announced the safe removal of the L10-C, L10-D and L10-G platforms from the Dutch sector of the North Sea.

FAR is investigating selling all or part of its interest in the project.

The company's interest in the Biscathorpe project in Lincolnshire, UK, is now 30%.

The project saw AISUS perform the inspection of 15 lines within the main caisson tubular structure of the client's platform.

LOC will provide marine warranty surveyor services for the SURF development on the Johan Sverdrup oilfield in the North Sea.