As part of the agreement, Shell will deliver a full suite of safety, pool survival, well control, and process training. Maersk Training will offer new IADC and IWCF well control training, with planning for large-scale immersive simulator capabilities underway.

Slovakian company GA Drilling, Finnish company Finest Bay Area Development Oy (FEBAY) and the Finnish Pyhäjärvi city-owned development company Callio have agreed to start testing, developing and operating the GA Drilling PLASMABIT-based geothermal

Representatives from Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Angola, Azerbaijan, Norway and Oman attended the 5th GECF Summit, held in November 2019 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

Increasing stakeholder and investor pressure and the growing marketability of low-carbon products could be motivating factors for NOCs to adopt low-carbon strategies in the near future, says the global consultancy group.

Petronas, ADNOC and Total all looking to digital technologies to cut costs out of traditional oil and gas projects while driving initiatives to lower emissions By Stephen Forrester, Contributor The future of upstream oil and gas is looking more uncertain than ever, after experiencing one of its most volatile years in 2020. Global oil demand dropped by 9 million bbl/day, and Brent prices fell to $18/bbl in April. Companies are also facing intense pressure to develop and adhere to more stringent ESG frameworks, even while major operating companies slash capital spending. Clearly, the upstream sector needs to strategize on a better path forward. Three E&P companies – Petronas, ADNOC and Total – shared their perspectives in a session at CERAWeek 2021. For ...

Ecopetrol, Sonangol and NNPC moving to embrace lower-carbon projects in bid to attract external funding, develop long-term path forward By Stephen Whitfield, Associate Editor Amid the decarbonization of the global economy, international oil companies (IOCs) aren’t the only ones facing rising ESG pressures. National oil companies (NOCs) from Africa to South America are also contending with calls – from both their citizens and investors – to adopt stronger protocols for reducing carbon emissions and to take a stronger stance on climate change. Some have also been urged to diversify into renewables; realigning portfolios to a low-carbon future is now seen as a key step to attracting external investments.  “Peak oil is around the corner, and NOCs must try to rapidly modernize as much as ...

Over the past decade, self-verification has come to play a significant role within BP’s Wells organization when it comes to mitigating major accident risk. The program has been continuously updated and enhanced through the addition of barrier enablers and barrier owners, the development of a digital self-verification app, and the targeting of barriers at a component level. This work was detailed in a presentation at the 2021

Neptune Energy and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have announced a collaboration to test a new approach for measuring methane emissions from offshore oil and gas facilities.EDF will coordinate a team of international researchers that includes Scientific Aviation,

The Maersk Integrator will drill an additional exploration well for Aker BP offshore Norway starting in December 2021. The contract's firm value is $9.6 million, and it is expected to last for 36 days.

In April, IADC launched Knowledge Retention & Education for our Workforce (KREW), an online system designed to provide continuous learning opportunities for well control concepts and skills. In this video interview with DC, two members of the KREW Steering Committee – Mike Garvin, Senior VP Operations at Patterson-UTI, and Jeremy Sokol, Technical Training Unit Manager at Chevron, discusses the details of how KREW came to be, as well as why they believe KREW is important for the industry.