Saudi Aramco awarded on Tuesday to Baker Hughes the first integrated services contract for capacity expansion of its large offshore Marjan oilfield, the Saudi firm’s biggest upstream development this year and the first of three planned major offshore expansions aimed at expanding its offshore production capacity to offset natural declines at maturing fields that have been operating for decades. Baker Hughes will provide drilling services, coiled tubing services, and drilling fluids engineering services at the Marjan oil field, which has current production capacity of 500,000 bpd . Under the contract, Baker Hughes will start work as early as this month with an aim to increase the field’s capacity, and works will include logging-while-drilling, reservoir navigation services, and rotary steerable services, Aramco said in a statement on Tuesday. “The Marjan oilfield is one of the major upstream developments this year that will contribute to the Kingdom’s oil production strengths, helping […]