
Highlands and Islands Enterprise: infrastructure investment
Audrey MacIver, Head of Energy at Highlands and Islands Enterprise, sets out the rewards the Highlands and Islands is set to reap from major infrastructure investment.
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Audrey MacIver, Head of Energy at Highlands and Islands Enterprise, sets out the rewards the Highlands and Islands is set to reap from major infrastructure investment.

Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd has noted the announcement made overnight by ExxonMobil Corporation in relation to another new oil discovery in Guyana on its Snoek Oil Prospect.

According to a recent Wood Mackenzie report, a leaner and more cost-competitive deepwater industry is emerging from the downturn, with the most attractive projects now competing with US tight oil plays.

Senior figures from Mexico’s national oil company, Pemex, have been discovering the secrets of the UK subsea sector’s success and how it has revolutionised the way in which hydrocarbons have been extracted from beneath the seabed during a fact-finding visit to Aberdeen.

Aberdeen-headquartered Exceed, a well management and performance improvement specialist, has secured four new North Sea contracts in the first quarter of 2017 with a combined revenue of approximately £5.5 million.

From flood declining conventional and offshore wells to the water injected to fracture underground shale to the steam required for oil sands extraction, water is the most important input to the oil and gas industry.

The Weatherford AutoFrac® RFID-enabled stimulation system has been recognised by the 2017 Spotlight on New Technology Awards, which are formally presented during the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC).

Wintershall Norge AS is the operator of the Maria field, an oil and gas field at Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea, around 230 km from the Trøndelag coast.

Hurricane Energy plc, the UK based oil and gas company focused on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs, has announced that operations on the 205/23-3A well are complete.

BP has announced another gas discovery in the North Damietta Offshore Concession in the East Nile Delta, Egypt. The Qattameya Shallow-1 exploration well was drilled to a total depth of 1961 m in water depth of ~108 m using the El Qaher II jack-up rig.

TechnipFMC has been awarded a contract by Shell Offshore Inc. for the delivery, integration, and installation of the subsea production system (SPS) and subsea riser, jumper and flowline (SURF) equipment for phase one of the Kaikias deepwater project in the GoM.

Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is to speak at the opening plenary session at SPE Offshore Europe 2017 which is being held in Aberdeen from 5 - 8 September 2017.