Well-Safe Solutions has been awarded a major contract to decommission up to twenty-one wells on the Schooner and Ketch fields in the UKCS, operated by DNO North Sea Limited, a subsidiary of DNO ASA. The Schooner and Ketch fields, located in the UK Southern…
ExxonMobil has announced plans to proceed with long-term oil development on Bajo del Choique-La Invernada block within Argentina’s Vaca Muerta basin. The project is expected to produce as much as 55,000 boe/d within five years. The project will include 90 wells, a central production…
Speakers at a maritime security symposium in London last week noted a growing incidence of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. Earlier this year the Spanish Navy had to intervene to rescue the crew of a hijacked subsea construction vessel operating offshore Equatorial Guinea….
UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) has announced that, as at close of business on the 7th June, total aggregate Portland and Kimmeridge test oil production from the Horse Hill oil field, in which the company has a 50.635% majority interest, reached a significant landmark of…
Shell has announced that the first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has sailed from the Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility, located 475 kilometres north-east of Broome in Western Australia. Shell is the operator of Prelude development in Block WA-44-L offshore Western…
French oil major Total has started up production from the Culzean gas condensate field located on Block 22/25a, 230 kilometres off the coast of Aberdeen. The Culzean field lies in Block 22/25 in the central North Sea’s East Central Graben. Announcing the field…
Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Industries Company LLC (DRPIC), Muscat, a joint venture of state-owned Oman Oil Company and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation subsidiary Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd, has let a contract to John Wood Group Plc to provide front-end engineering design for a proposed onshore petrochemicals…
A UK equipment supplier has announced a joint venture which will allow it to supply a revolutionary surface wellhead and tree production equipment package, which will enhance oil and gas production integrity and reduce the need for long-term repair and maintenance. Plexus, which is…
Vestas and RUSNANO have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding localisation of equipment for the Russian sustainable energy market, including supply chain optimisation, local manufacturing of wind turbine components and Vestas considering the possibility of using technology developed by RUSNANO portfolio companies. The…
Cuba announced the 2019 Licensing Round for Offshore Blocks in the Cuban Economic Exclusive Zone of Gulf of Mexico on 3rd June in London. CUPET has confirmed that the last stop of the roadshow will take place in Havana 27th November as part of…
