Upstream project news

Petrobras has started to decommission platform P-12 in the Campos Basin.

Designed to provide real time pressure and temperature data anywhere in the well, the Instrumented Tubular Plug has been qualified for use on high pressure high temperature wells.

Equinor and its partners have signed a letter of intent with Odfjell Drilling for the Deepsea Atlantic rig to drill 12 wells during phase 2 of the Johan Sverdrup field development.

The Mahalo gas project in Queensland, Australia, is held 40% by Comet Ridge, 30% by Santos and 30% by APLNG (where Origin Energy is the development operator).

The primary objective of the agreement is the potential acquisition of an onshore oil production licence last producing at a rate of approximately 300 bpd from the Mengo formation as recently as 2019.

ABB to deliver complete electrical, control and telecommunication solutions to drive efficiency and productivity for a new floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.

Saipem is to install a rigid riser-based subsea system to serve the Búzios pre-salt project offshore Brazil.

The latest issue of Oilfield Technology begins with a review of the Asia upstream sector.

Sasol was awarded Block 16/19 in 2005.

The survey extends Hammerfest Basin coverage further west and north into the southern Loppa High, with first data available in 4Q20.