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Equinor and partners Shell and Total have completed the drilling of a confirmation well south of the Troll field in the North Sea. The purpose of the well is to determine the suitability of the reservoir for carbon dioxide storage.

The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding on digital collaboration to develop solutions and methods together through the exchange of expertise in areas such as data science, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing.

i-Tech 7, Subsea 7’s life-of-field business unit, and Shell International E&P have entered into a collaborative technology agreement to accelerate subsea digitalization, initially for a period of 5 years from the fourth quarter of 2019.

Shell has awarded consulting company Atkins with a 5-year framework agreement to provide general and specialist technical safety and human factors engineering services to support Shell’s global projects and assets.

The LNG will come from the offshore Qatargas 4 project in the North Field, a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Shell.

Sometimes problems turn out to be an opportunity to try something new. In this case, the result was a well design unlike anything most in the shale sector have seen before.

High-tech testing is playing a bigger role than ever in helping shale producers reduce the time needed to screen out bad ideas.

Heavy production spiked in two Canadian wells heated by an electric cable, but it is hard to find customers there at a time when Canadian oil prices and customers remember cables in the past that died young.

The Arab world’s most populous country has awarded a string of concessions in a bid to become the region’s next major supplier of natural gas.

The international major is calling its latest multiwell project in the Permian Basin a “beacon of innovation.” The goal is to see if combining digital technologies will lower the operating costs of its shale assets.