Saudi Aramco is on course to regain maximum sustained capacity of 12 mn bpd by November, thanks to the accelerated completion of restoration work following the September drone attacks on two of its major facilities, said Amin H Nasser, the company’s president and CEO at the Oil & Money conference in London
Exploration & Production
‘Expanded East-West Pipeline will provide limited protection for Saudi Arabia’
Expanding the East-West Pipeline’s crude oil capacity to 6.5 mmbbl per day will provide Saudi Arabia with an infrastructural improvement, but it will not help the country to completely stave off risks associated with the Strait of Hormuz’s closure or limited accessibility, according to data and analytics firm GlobalData
ADNOC Drilling completes first offshore integrated drilling services well
ADNOC Drilling, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), has completed its first offshore integrated drilling services (IDS) well in Abu Dhabi’s Umm Lulu offshore oilfield
Eni starts production of gas field offshore Egypt
Italian major Eni has announced the commissioning and start-up of production of the Baltim South West gas field offshore Egypt
Schlumberger starts wide-azimuth survey in Mexico
Schlumberger has started a 5,080-sq km wide-azimuth (WAZ) multiclient survey in the Salina del Istmo Basin in the Gulf of Mexico Bay of Campeche, providing the first 3D coverage over this shallow-water target area that includes the recent Zama-1 discovery