Statoil has launched Cap-X, a new subsea development concept designed to reduce cost and increase efficiency. The Norwegian oil giant, more than half of whose production comes from some 500 subsea wells, has already been exploring ways to reduce subsea development costs…
UK-based independent explorer Hurricane Energy is planning two new appraisal wells on its Lancaster discovery after raising £52 million funding. The two wells, called the Lancaster 7 wells, could help Hurricane make a final investment…
OMV has successfully completed drilling and testing of the Wisting Central II appraisal well in the Barents Sea, with flow rates hitting just above 5000 boe/d. The Transocean Spitsbergen, from OMV…
The fact that exploration drilling activity is at a record lows in the UK North Sea is well recorded. It's easy to quantify and monitor. What is not so easy, is quantifying the number of already discovered fields which are currently sitting…
Det norske oljeselskap has received consent from the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority to use the Transocean Winner mobile drilling facility for production drilling and completion on the Volund field. Transocean Winner is a semi-submersible facility of the GVA 4000 type…
The Roc Oil and CNOOC-led joint venture spudded the WZ 12-8W-A6P1 appraisal well, in Beibu Gulf, offshore China, according to parnter Horizon Oil. Map from Horizon Oil. The well is located in the Weizhou 12-8 fields area…
At the President’s Luncheon and Annual Meeting at this year’s SPE ATCE on Wednesday, both outgoing 2015 SPE President Helge Hove Haldorsen and incoming 2016 President Nathan Meehan discussed how vital the industry remains in spite of the downturn…
It is 20 years since the start of oil production from the Troll field. The 20 year-old can look back on enormous wealth, with 1.56 billion bbl produced so far and US$53.76 billion (NOK 460 billion) in income. Image from Statoil…
At the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) in San Antonio, Texas, Weatherford International has released its Revolution rotary-steerable system (RSS). Revolution RSS provides capabilities for diverse directional drilling applications in complex wellbores…
Richard D'Souza Richard D’Souza’s career reads like a history of offshore energy development. Jeannie Stell gets his perspective. Reading the resume of Richard D’Souza, current vice president of Granherne Global Operations…
Subsea engineering and training firm Jee has been awarded a contract from Amec Foster Wheeler for the front-end engineering design (FEED) of a jacket rigid polymer injection riser package (including J-tubes) as part of an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) field development for Chevron…
Well drilling and management specialists Acona UK have completed a two-well campaign for Perenco UK in the Southern North Sea. The seven-month campaign, using the Transocean GSF Monarch jackup, drilled a subsea well on the Leman field…
LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft established a new world record in horizontal drilling with a significant bottom displacement. Well No. 108, drilled from an offshore ice-resistant stationary platform at Yuri Korchagin field in the Caspian Sea, went down 4908m in the 9…
Resonance enhanced drilling could help speed up drilling time and efficiency. Elaine Maslin reports. Professor Marian Wiercigroch with the vertical RED full scale experimental rig. Images from the University of Aberdeen…
VAALCO Energy began first production from the Etame 10-H well, part of its six-well development drilling campaign on the Etame Marin block, offshore Gabon. SEENT platform installation. From VAALCO. Etame…
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