Simple old fashioned techniques like wellsite observation, Pore Pressure prediction and Geomechanics secure safe and cost-efficient drilling despite sophisticated measurements, advanced technologies and increased amount of available data.

There’s no doubt that the restrictions throughout 2020 as a result of the pandemic and that now continue into 2021 has led to a restlessness for something that you just don’t get online. For many, it’s a renewed appreciation of nature and the outdoors, for others it’s an urge to be creative and for some it may be achievement of fitness goals.

Our CEO, Svein Sollund, suggests several steps how the supplier industry could reinvent itself to increase profitability, reduce the environmental impact and gradually transfer competency to other areas.

Jodie Mewse, the member of our Consultancy team, was ready to jump on a plane in Aberdeen and start a new chapter of her career with the department’s offices in Norway. While the lockdown continues in Scotland, Jodie is keeping in touch with her colleagues online.

AGRs Advisor Geology, Ole-Gunnar Tveiten, recently coauthored an article published in the Petroleum Geoscience magazine

Teams continue to rely on siloed and time-intensive End of Well reporting systems.

Personnel Coordinator, Lene Thorstensen, for our Operations and Wellsite Geology business unit, shares her thoughts on holiday season on duty.

Jørnar Heggsum Hubred is the key expert behind our hiQbe® velocity cubes for depth conversion. We took a chat with him about his career at the company.

The demand from our clients has shifted from holistic full-field models (“resource models”) to models where a specific objective is addressed (“decision models”).

In 2013, the first oil discovery was made in the frontier Hoop area in the Norwegian Barents Sea. What did it mean to AGR's Well Management team to rise to the challenges of extreme conditions and managing operations in sensitive environments?

AGR's Reservoir Management team combines nodal analysis with thermal fracturing models to develop perforation strategy for injecting liquid CO2 into a saline aquifer.

Today, AGR provides software solutions and engineering consultancy to the energy industry on a global scale. It may therefore be somewhat surprising to learn that the origins of the company are more humble.

AGR's Well Management team delivers the exploration project ahead of time and to budget.

AGR has developed several MultiClient studies in the Barents Sea that help the small and medium-sized E&P companies, but also majors, identify exploration prospects in a cost-efficient method.

Software is still only as good as the people using it. The Senior Associate at AGR Software explains in more detail how to manage data to create value.

Exploration Manager, Erik Lorange, tells about his long career at our company.

The VARG field: the tail is bigger than the fish

The ability to show the management that the calculated well costs are based on realistic operations and prices for services is important as this allows them to see that the risks have also been identified and quantified.

As the life of a hydrocarbon reservoir goes through its maturation phases, various recovery techniques are employed.

The Cara well for ENGIE E&P was completed ahead of time, below budget and no major incidents.

AGR Well Management engineering team were assigned to evaluate the best option between different Mobile Drilling Unit (MODU) types.

AGR’s Reservoir Management team has been working on analyzing and evaluating the possibilities to develop a coal bed methane prospect in the North-East part of Kazakhstan.

Our Consultancy division had to find and recruit a full exploration drilling team for an operator. The project was in the Middle East and personnel had to have experience with land-based projects.

The Unstructured Data Challenge was launched last year with the aim of proving that modern data and information sciences could extract unstructured data which could be used to create context and clarity by combining it with the structured data.

AGR has managed two Bredford Dolphin drilling campaigns in NCS since 2007 having delivered 34 wells to 10 operators.

Our Exploration team has been involved in evaluation of prospective resources of over 10.0 billion BOE in the Karpinsky Ridge Basin, Rostov Oblast which lies between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea.

Our Senior Technical Consultant discusses how probabilistic planning can solve key abandonment challenges.

The abstract to the paper presented at the Geology of Geomechanics conference.

Last year, our drilling team managed a well construction and operations project in the Celtic Sea.

AGR Software (pictured) recently participated in leading oil and gas event, SPE Intelligent Energy presenting a paper that focussed on using available and recorded data for improving well design, resulting in improved operational performance of new projects.

AGR's Lead Geologist discusses the role of geomechanics during the production and injection operations.

AGR has acted as a technical adviser contributing to developing CCS technologies on the UK, Norwegian and Australia.

Senior Geophysicist, Carolina Perez-Garcia, will present at the Hydrocarbon Habitats seminar.

AGRs Principal Reservoir Engineer and Trainer, Mark Cook, discusses effective risk and uncertainty management methods.

Collaboration between AGR and Lundin Norway sees new iQx™ functionality released.

AGR has developed several Multi Client studies on the Norwegian Continental Shelf that help the small and medium-sized E&P companies but also majors identify exploration prospects in a cost-efficient method.

AGRs Principal Production Technologist, gives an overview of the role of the production technologist.

iQx™ new module GEO adds new functionalities for both geoscientists and petroleum engineers.

AGR writes on reservoir modelling in the latest edition of Petroleum Geoscience magazine.

Wells can produce much more while spending no or relatively little financial resources.

AGR was assigned to provide technical recommendation for pilots, assess the economics, uncertainty and risk analysis of Heglig field to ensure the development of more efficient oil recovery techniques that would be technically, economically and environmentally more viable.

Applying a risk-weighted probabilistic cost and schedule estimation software tool in well abandonment projects could represent a significant progression for more informed decisions.

AGR's Lead Geophysicist comments on the subject

AGR Expert Opinion: Benefits of software created by the end users meet their requirements and is more efficient