July 2019 – Energy Northern Perspective

Sphera’s president and CEO, Paul Marushka

Sphera signs agreement to acquire thinkstep

31 July 2019 Editor 0

Sphera, a global provider of Integrated Risk Management software and information services with a focus on Environmental Health & Safety, Operational Risk and Product Stewardship, has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire […]

BP and Eni sign exploration agreement in Oman

31 July 2019 Editor 0

BP and Eni have signed an exploration and production sharing agreement (EPSA) for Block 77 in central Oman with the Ministry of Oil and Gas of the Sultanate of Oman. Block 77 covers a total […]

WFS Chief Technology Officer, Jim Darroch

WFS expands senior leadership team with appointment of new CTO

31 July 2019 Editor 0

Continuing their ambitious growth plans for 2019, global provider of disruptive wireless subsea internet of things technology, WFS Technologies, has appointed a new Chief Technology Officer to drive its evolving product portfolio and software development […]

Leiv Eiriksson, a fifth-generation deep water semisubmersible drilling rig, BINGO 9000 Design

Drilling permit for well North Sea 25/7-7 in PL 782 S

31 July 2019 Editor 0

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS a drilling permit for well 25/7-7 cf. Section 15 of the Norwegian Resource Management regulations. Well 25/7-7 will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig, […]

Shell completes sale of interest in the US Gulf of Mexico Caesar-Tonga asset

31 July 2019 Editor 0

Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has completed the sale of 22.45% non-operated interest in the Caesar-Tonga asset in the US Gulf of Mexico to Equinor Gulf of Mexico LLC (Equinor), […]

From left, William Calligeros, McDermott Country Manager Australia, NZ & PNG; Derek Price, BHGE Regional Sales Leader; Graham Gillies, BHGE Oilfield Equipment Vice President; Ian Prescott, McDermott Senior Vice President Asia Pacific; Hideki Iwashita, INPEX Vice President Finance and Technology Services; and Yosuke Ueda, INPEX Vice President Asset Management

McDermott and BHGE awarded contracts for Ichthys gas field development

31 July 2019 Editor 0

McDermott International, Inc. and Baker Hughes, a GE company have announced that the companies were awarded contracts to provide a joint URF and SPS solution for the INPEX-operated Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) field development, […]

The 40 MW solar plant is located close to the city of Mocuba in the Zambézia Province and will deliver 79 GWh per year of much needed electricity to the northern regions of Mozambique

Scatec Solar’s first solar plant in Mozambique begins commercial operation

31 July 2019 Editor 0

Scatec Solar and partners have grid connected and started commercial operation for the 40 MW Mocuba solar power plant in Mozambique. “We are proud to complete the first large scale solar power plant in Mozambique […]

Change in workforce 2017-2018, top service companies split by industry (source: Rystad Energy ServiceSupplyCube, Rystad Energy Research)

Employment is shifting from shale to offshore

30 July 2019 Editor 0

Rystad Energy has analysed the oilfield service industry sectors with the highest percent change of employment and found that the main driver of employment is shifting from shale to offshore. Increased activity in onshore shale […]

Lummus Technology’s petrochemical technology portfolio – one of the industry’s most diversified – includes building block processes for a wide range of products derived from olefins and aromatics

McDermott announces Chevron Lummus Global Technology award

30 July 2019 Editor 0

McDermott International, Inc. has announced that Chevron Lummus Global (CLG), McDermott’s joint venture with Chevron, has been awarded a sizeable license and engineering contract for a 270 TMTPA (thousand metric tons per annum) lubricants base […]

Riser and conductor analysis, often used to validate a proposed riser or conductor design before it is installed, has evolved into a specialism in its own right (photo: Aquaterra Energy)

A minute saved, a minute gained? Why analysis is key for your next drilling project

30 July 2019 Editor 0

It’s mid-January, 150 miles from land with the temperature around zero degrees Celsius. The waves are 50 feet high, with many large vessels having chosen to shelter closer towards the coast. It’s not worth the […]