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NPD awards AGR support agreement

Apr 28, 2017

AGR has been awarded a frame agreement to deliver well and drilling engineering advice to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to support evaluation of drilling programs, well design and testing, completions and plugging and abandoning…

Lancaster could be UK's largest undeveloped discovery

Mar 27, 2017

Fractured basement explorer Hurricane Energy is closer to proving its Halifax discovery is linked to its Lancaster field, forming a single field, which would be the UK's largest undeveloped discovery on the UK Continental Shelf. Hurricane…

BP names AGT president, production COO

Mar 16, 2017

BP has named appointments for the regional president for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey (AGT), and for the chief operating officer, production, transformation and carbon.  Gary Jones has been appointed the new regional president for AGT…

Woodside sees Scarborough FEED in 2017

Jan 19, 2017

Australia's Woodside says the Scarborough project could move into front end engineering and design in 2017, with a final investment decision by 2020.  Woodside acquired a stake in the ExxonMobil-operated license, containing the Scarborough field…

GE, Baker Hughes to merge

Oct 31, 2016

GE and Baker Hughes are teaming up to form the “new” Baker Hughes, a company that will be led by current GE Oil & Gas CEO Lorenzo Simonelli and have dual headquarters in Houston and London. Image of Simonelli…

Video: Jack/St. Malo in 360 degrees

Oct 11, 2016

In this video, US supermajor Chevron shows a 360° video tour of its Jack/St. Malo facility, its largest deepwater offshore platform, offshore the US Gulf of Mexico.  The Jack and St. Malo fields were co-developed with subsea completions…

Sounding the alarm

Jun 01, 2016

Michael Cole, Fugro’s manager of survey prospects, explains how dynamic alarms coupled with office assisted remote services, can help provide better early warnings and navigation for end users. Vessel…

Wintershall hands out six completions contracts

May 27, 2016

Wintershall Norge has awarded a series of four-year contracts for supply of well completion equipment and services for its operated drilling activities in Norway.  The contracts have been awarded to six companies including Halliburton which will provide the largest share of the work…

bpTT's Juniper subsea tree delivery

May 23, 2016

In this video, BP shows the delivery of its five subsea trees required for the Juniper project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The subsea trees, which weigh 76-tonne each, were delivered on using an Antonov 124 cargo aircraft. The trees were built with materials from Singapore…

Ichthys uses Sonardyne SensorView

May 10, 2016

Software that enables acoustic data to be streamed in real-time from subsea structures as they are installed has helped to reduce non-production time (NPT) for independent oil and gas producer, INPEX, and its survey contractor, Neptune Geomatics…

Eni expands HAL software adoption

Apr 08, 2016

Eni has expanded the adoption of Halliburton Landmark’s DecisionSpace Geosciences across its exploration business units worldwide. Eni decided to expand the utilization of Landmark’s solution in order to improve efficiency through integration and cross-disciplinary collaboration…

Schlumberger acquires Meta Downhole

Mar 25, 2016

Schlumberger is adding to its list of takeovers with the announcement of the acquisition of Meta Downhole, a UK-based engineering and service company that offers technology and expertise to provide downhole metal-to-metal isolation solutions in well integrity applications…

Fugro inks Dana Western Isles gig

Mar 22, 2016

Dana Petroleum awarded Fugro to supply ROV drilling support services on board the Ocean Guardian MODU at the Dana-operated Western Isles developments in the northern North Sea. Operating one of its fleet of FCV 600 ROVs, specifically designed for North Sea drill support activities…

In your (completion) dreams

Mar 01, 2016

Elaine Maslin reports on Saudi Aramco’s work to improve recovery through “smart” completions, thereby simultaneously reducing intervention. Dr Mohamed Nabil Noui-Mehidi speaking at the Society…

Wintershall to use Kongsberg's SiteCom

Jan 06, 2016

Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies has been awarded a 3-year contract by Wintershall for provision of its hosted SiteCom real-time data aggregation and visualization solution for well construction. All real-time, planned and historical…

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