First Crude Oil together with DowTec will finalise the development of a common system for the handling of drill cuttings and drill fluids. The system will be made available to the international oil and gas industry to solve the environmental problems which come with disposal.

Such a joint venture between First Crude Oil and DowTec offers environmentally friendly subsea concepts for regeneration projects and will help alleviate the high demand for oil, it was announced.

The Asian and Norwegian companies DowTec and First Crude Oil secured a working relationship as a direct result of the meeting at the recently held NG Oil and Gas (NGOG) Summit in Doha.

First Crude Oil’s Jan Storm and DowTec’s Arief Razak were both invited as thought leaders to this year’s NG union. First Crude shared their latest developments in subsea technology, revealing their new ‘Aurora subsea production system’, which could revolutionise the face of the Middle East/North Africa oil industry.

To ensure a unified approach to the meeting, senior executives such as Farouk Al Zanki, managing director and chairman of Kuwait National Petroleum Company, Randy Clark CEO of Energistics and Hamed Ibrahim Karim, GM, exploration, PICO Petroleum met at the NGOG Summit to discuss the volatile future of the oil and gas industry and the depleting resources, which is attributable for the entire regions wealth.