Upstream project news

At completion, Ruby is expected to have the capacity to produce up to 16 000 gross bpd of oil and 80 million gross standard ft3/d of natural gas.

The platform will be the ninth unit to operate in the field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt.

The first phase of the company's Morocco drilling campaign will consist of three appraisal/development wells, targeting an estimated total of 1.3 billion ft3 of P90/1.8 billion ft3 of P50, gross unrisked prospective recoverable resources in the Gharb Basin.

Maersk Training will deliver safety, pool survival, well control and process training in the region.

Baker Hughes will supply Petrobras with up to five subsea production and injection manifold systems for the project.

A paper published by LYTT advocates new, acoustic data-based methodologies to improve the diagnosis of well integrity issues and inform successful remediation and plug and abandonment strategies.

The first ever pressure-containing component to be produced using Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing technology (WAAM) was successfully ran on Total’s Elgin-Franklin rig in the North Sea.

ABB is to deliver automation solutions for the Krafla oil and gas field development.

The scope of work includes the supply and installation of three drilling jackets and two new single well observation jackets/decks.

The contract, signed with Empyrean Energy, will see AGR provide offset analysis and detailed well design engineering to ensure safe project delivery.