Upstream project news

Tolmount first gas will be delayed beyond the end of July and is now likely to be around year-end, due to issues identified in electrical systems on the HGS Tolmount platform.

Fugro will employ its specialised survey technology to inspect the subsea infrastructure, including pipelines and structures, and to undertake survey activities in advance of future drilling campaigns on the Cygnus field.

The work programme is scheduled to last approximately four months and to start the process of converting approximately 100 million boe (gross) of 2C resources into 2P reserves.

Borr Drilling's Prospector-1 jack-up is expected to arrive on location in the Dutch North Sea before the end of July and to remain on contract with Kistos for approximately four months.

The contract positions Petrofac to support the Clipper South complex, Leman Alpha assets, Bacton Terminal, and ONEgas Barge campaigns in the Southern North Sea.

The new digital twins of Neptune’s wells were developed using a data visualisation platform based on 3D gaming technology to enhance drilling and production efficiency, and reduce time and costs.

The two companies, along with ADNOC Drilling, will provide rigless services across six of ADNOC's artificial islands in the Upper Zakum and Satah Al Razboot fields.

Express Engineering will participate in a long-term environmental project that will allow liquefied CO2 to be transported by undersea pipeline to a subsea storage facility located in the North Sea.

Equinor and Ardyne are jointly funding the £1 million project, which will aim to develop a well decommissioning technology that will reduce the economic and environmental impacts of slot recovery and decommissioning.

Seadrill’s West Saturn drillship will be fitted with FUELSAVE’s combustion conditioning technology to reduce fuel consumption and harmful emissions while it operates in the Bacalhau field in Brazil.