Upstream project news
GD Energy Products to provide 3000 horsepower pumps to US Well Services
Each custom-designed pump is powered by an electric drive motor to create an environmentally sustainable frac unit.
AGR ramps up consultant staffing division and opens new Oslo office to meet ongoing business growth
AGR, a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy and software provider, is to expand and grow its range of services with the opening of an office in Oslo, Norway, to meet increased demand from new projects coming online in the oil and gas and renewables sectors.
ADNOC Drilling awarded close to US$1 billion contract to further unlock UAE’s offshore energy resources
Over 80% of the contract value will flow back into the UAE’s economy under ADNOC’s in-country value programme.
Maersk Drilling secures work for Maersk Viking offshore Malaysia into 2024
A five-well work scope will be novated to PTTEP for drilling and plugging and abandonment activities at the Kikeh field offshore Sabah, with a total estimated duration of 116 days and expected commencement of the first well in November 2022.
Equinor and Poland’s PGNiG agree long term gas sales contract
PGNiG and Equinor ASA group companies have concluded gas sales agreements for natural gas from the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Neptune Energy awards major decommissioning contract for Dutch, UK North Sea
Well-Safe Solutions’ Well-Safe Protector jack-up rig will carry out the plug and abandonment of at least four subsea and 17 platform wells located in Dutch and UK waters.
Tendeka extends decade-long relationship to provide sand and inflow control technology across Equinor’s NCS assets
Tendeka has signed a new multi-year contract extension to exclusively deliver standardised sand-face completion equipment across all Equinor’s assets on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The agreement will see Tendeka manage the complete supply chain of sand and inflow control equipment through standardisation.
Collaborating to eliminate methane emissions in the energy sector
Worley is now a supporter of Aiming for Zero, a global initiative aimed at eliminating methane emissions in the upstream oil and gas industry.
Northern Lights and Yara sign the world’s first commercial agreement on cross border CO2 transportation and storage
The companies have agreed on the main commercial terms to transport CO2 captured from Yara Sluiskil, an ammonia and fertiliser plant in the Netherlands, and permanently store it under the seabed off the coast of Norway.
CGG releases new GeoWells database for Brazil
A new feature used in the creation of GeoWells Brazil is an innovative core image interpretation workflow. This harnesses machine learning technology to predict core and thin section descriptions over hundreds of wells, and tens of thousands of images.