Penspen lands Abu Dhabi oil field project contract
ABU DHABI: Penspen, a leading global provider of engineering and project management services to the energy industry, has secured a £1.8 million ($2.4 million) detailed engineering project contract from Galfar Engineering & Contracting Emirates for a major oil field project on the south-east border of Abu Dhabi.
The Haliba oil field, also known as the Area 1 onshore oil field, was brought on stream in July last year. It is owned and operated by Al Dhafra Petroleum. Being developed in two phases, the Haliba onshore field is expected to reach up to 60,000 bpd production capacity by 2023.
Penspen said the EPC award will see the company undertake well tie-in work at the main Haliba oil field and peripheral prospects. It will also support with the design and detailed engineering of different types of wells, including: straight oil producers, ESP/artificial lift and water injection wells. The Penspen contract covers 75 wells over four years. The first tranche of work will be for 11 wells, it added.
Total in talks to expand Libya investments
CAIRO: Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) and France's Total discussed efforts to raise production capacity and increase production rates to the highest levels, as well as expanding investments of the French company in Libya as the Opec member’s oil industry recovers.
In a virtual meeting with Total's head of exploration and production in the Middle East and North Africa Stephane Michel, NOC chairman Mustafa Sunallah said Libya's oil production has rapidly returned to previous rates as it reached 1.25 million barrels per day (bpd), a NOC statement said on Thursday.
Michel stressed Total's readiness to provide support and cooperation, the statement said.
Libya’s oil output has been rising steadily since the gradual lifting of an eight-month blockade by eastern forces in September. On Oct. 26, NOC ended force majeure on the last facilities closed by the blockade. --Reuters
First batch of UAE Barakah programme graduate
ABU DHABI: Nawah Energy Company recently celebrated the graduation of the first UAE national leaders from its Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant Management Certification programme.
Nawah had designed the program to develop UAE national leaders in managing the specific technology utilised at the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, the cornerstone of the UAE Peaceful Nuclear Energy Program.
Nawah CEO Ali Al Hammadi and Chief Nuclear Officer Paul Harden led the first session early this year at Nawah’s Training Center in Abu Dhabi, prior to continuing the programme virtually as part of Enec and its subsidiaries’ remote working arrangements during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The 16-week safety and operations-focused program encompasses three phases of training including Nuclear Generic Fundamentals, Barakah Plant Systems, and Simulator training.
