In addition, Wintershall has entered a long-term frame agreement with Seadrill for potential future rig needs.
Drones offer speed and accuracy in facility maintenance but there are shortcomings as well.
Also this week, U.S. and Russia energy leaders talked Nord Stream 2 at the World Gas Conference, while Chevron and Exxon Mobil CEOs expressed trade conflict concerns.
The agreement involves the provision of well project management services for Tamarind’s Tui Phase 3 drilling project in New Zealand’s North Island.
The new JV between Saudi Aramco and National Oilwell Varco, known as NOV, aims to produce 10 onshore rigs per year, Aramco said.
As part of a stalking-horse bid, SAExploration offered to acquire bankrupt Geokinetics' equipment and machinery, seismic processing software and equipment, and certain contracts with large E&P companies.
The contract scope includes the tie-back development of two reservoirs to the existing Pazflor FPSO in Block 17.
Posco Daewoo Corp. has awarded the McDermott International, and Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), consortium a contract for phase two of the Shwe gas field development offshore Western Myanmar.
But recent shipping data suggests demand from California for Canadian crude is rising, and experts say that state could end up taking up to half of the new export capacity from an expanded Trans Mountain.
GE plans to fully separate from Baker Hughes in an “orderly manner” over the next two to three years as it targets a leaner corporate structure.