Upstream project news

The licence awarded to Eni is located in deep water in the unexplored Namibe Basin.

UK-based oil and gas technology development company, Deep Casing Tools (DCT), has announced the appointment of two agents as part of its strategic growth plans in Africa.

Current production is around 10 000 bpd, and is set to reach 20 000 bpd during the next weeks.

The contract extension is for the ultra-harsh environment, low-emission jack-up rig Maersk Integrator, which will move to the Ivar Aasen field offshore Norway to drill two wells.

Development of the Wressle oilfield in North Lincolnshire, UK, can now proceed.

The consent applies to the use of the Island Wellserver well intervention facility for light well intervention on fields in the North Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea.

Centrica Storage has engaged Servelec Controls to help prepare Easington Terminal to process gas from the Tolmount field in the Southern North Sea.

ION is reimaging 22 000 km2 of data over the country’s deepwater blocks to create a contiguous volume for a holistic exploration perspective of the margin.

Unity deployed its Temporary Abandonment Cap Test Tool (TACTT) to pressure test two suspended mudline wells in the North Sea in support of an end of life campaign undertaken by Petrofac for a multinational operator.

Following drilling of the Nangwarry-1 well, a gross gas column of at least 65 m has now been confirmed in the top of the Pretty Hill Sandstone.