Upstream project news

BP has started production from the Qattameya gas field in the North Damietta offshore concession.

Well 7018/5-1 will be drilled from the West Hercules drilling facility.

Archer has secured a two-year contract extension with a major North Sea operator.

The survey, for an unnamed NOC, will commence in 4Q20.

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a three-well contract from Total E&P Angola.

Peterson has agreed a project logistics services contract with OneSubsea to support their work on the Matapal project in Trinidad and Tobago.

The new service aims to help operators enhance asset performance, eliminate downtime, and reduce maintenance costs.

Shell’s Deepwater business has selected Bentley’s digital twin approach to streamline its capital projects process and accelerate time to first oil.

Operator Wintershall DEA estimates that it can recover 18 billion m3 of gas from Dvalin.

The project covers an area of approximately 82 000 km2 offshore Nigeria and will incorporate 17 seabed heat flow measurements and 253 seabed cores.