Upstream project news

IOG has started up the Elgood and Blythe gas fields in the UK North Sea this week.

The integrated project scope encompasses drilling rigs and technologies and services, including drill bits, measurement while drilling and logging while drilling, drilling fluids, cementing and completing wells.

Joint efforts by FAR and operator Petronor to farm down their interests in the Esperanca Blocks 4A & 5A and Sinapa Block 2 offshore Guinea-Bissau have been unsuccessful.

KCA Deutag will engineer and install carbon-reduction technologies on two CAT J rigs.

PTTEP will take over operating the Yadana gas field, offshore Myanmar, following TotalEnergies' decision to withdraw from the project.

Unity has deployed its Surface Intervention System for a major international operator in the North Sea.

The Canje block offshore Guyana is directly adjacent to the prolific Stabroek block where ExxonMobil has discovered in excess of 10 billion barrels of oil.

After final commissioning of the Saturn Banks Reception Facilities at the Bacton terminal, backgassing of the pipeline system was successfully completed over the past week.

The loan will enable CGX to continue to finance part of its share of costs related to the Corentyne Block, the Berbice Deepwater Port, and other budgeted costs as agreed to with Frontera.

Wildcat well 34/4-18 S, drilled about 7 km north-west of the Snorre field in the North Sea, was found to be dry with no trace of hydrocarbons.