Upstream project news

Siemens will modernise a complete and integrated drilling-drives lineup, including auxiliaries and controls, that will be installed on an offshore jackup drilling rig for a customer in the Middle East.

The project will see the firm deliver two of its EC750 cranes for installation on wellhead platforms, as well as an EC1000 crane for a riser platform.

L5a-D4 is a high pressure, high temperature well located in the L5a-D field, around 100 km North of Den Helder, and tied back to the Neptune-operated L5a-D platform.

In 2018, North Sea oilfields recorded 307 individual months of no production in the year to September; in the same period last year, that figure had reduced to just 248, according to the Glacier Production Index.

The company has commenced another survey in northern Senegal, following the completion of another in the south of the country.

The work scope encompasses offshore packages at Arzanah island and surrounding offshore fields, located around 140 km off the north-west coast of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

Octavio Romero, CEO of Pemex, has said he expects all the related contracting for this year’s projects to be finalised by the middle of this year.

The Sole gas project offshore Victoria, Australia, has passed a critical milestone with the entry of gas from the Eastern Gas pipeline into the Orbost gas processing plant.

Global oil firms are preparing to spend more than US$53 billion in Guyana’s coveted Stabroek Block during the coming decade, Rystad Energy research shows.

Faithful+Gould and Atkins have been awarded the pre-final investment decision upstream facilities and shared project management team services for the Zama development project from Talos Energy Inc.