The UK’s offshore oil and gas industry continued to see improvement across a broad range of health and safety indicators last year, according to a key insight into the health and safety landscape published by Oil & Gas UK.Findings from the leading…
Liv Hovem will take over as CEO of DNV GL’s Oil & Gas business area, which provides integrated technical assurance and advisory services to operators, suppliers and regulators across the oil and gas value chain, from project initiation to decommissioning…
Industry guidelines designed to boost production efficiency in the UK Continental Shelf have been published by Oil & Gas UK. Between 2004-2012, the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) faced the significant challenge of a sustained decline in levels of production efficiency (PE)…
Baker Hughes stockholders voted 99% to approve its merger with GE Oil & Gas, the company announced today (30 June). The company says that shares voted at the meeting represent approximately 86% of Baker Hughes' shares outstanding as of the record date for the meeting…
GE Oil & Gas opened a new facility in Takoradi Port, Ghana, that will be the primary service center for its deepwater offshore projects in Ghana. The facility has a 1600sq m indoor test area with capability for testing three subsea trees (XTs) simultaneously…
Dutch technology firm Airborne Oil & Gas has been awarded a qualification program from Shell for a high-pressure, deepwater thermocomposite pipe (TCP) jumper spool. Its first application is anticipated in the Gulf of Mexico region. The TCP jumper spool will be manufactured using carbon fibre…
Oil & Gas UK has launched new guidelines, aimed at simplifying subsea developments. Realizing the potential of the North Sea’s “small pool” reserves could be helped by its guidelines, Oil & Gas UK says. The launch follows a call…
GE Oil & Gas has been awarded a contract with Premier Oil Indonesia, for subsea trees and wellheads for the Bison, Iguana and Gajah Puteri (BIGP) fields, in the Natuna Sea. The scope covers subsea trees and wellheads, rental tools and…
Oil & Gas UK has elected Greta Lydecker from Chevron Upstream Europe, and UK ConocoPhillips President Terri King, to its board of directors. Lydecker, managing director, Chevron Upstream Europe, and King, president, UK ConocoPhillips…
A new publication to help guide the growing use offshore of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) – also known as drones - has been published by Oil & Gas UK. The Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Operations Management Standards and Guidelines were developed by a work group set up by the trade body…
Oil & Gas UK (Oil & Gas UK) appointed four new members to its board. Cory L. Loegering, region vice president and managing director for Apache North Sea; Robin Allan, Premier Oil’s director, North Sea and Exploration; and Bill Dunnett…
India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), awarded a multimillion dollar contract to GE Oil & Gas to provide an estimated 55 subsea wellheads (SG5) over the next three years for ONGC’s offshore drilling campaign, in shallow to medium waters offshore India…
GE Oil & Gas subsidiary, PT. VetcoGray Indonesia, has been awarded a field decommissioning contract with Premier Oil Indonesia, to support the shut-down of four subsea wells in the Anoa field, offshore Indonesia. The deal will see GE…
National Oilwell Varco (NOV) and GE Oil & Gas entered into an agreement to collaborate on delivering integrated solutions for floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. Image from GE…
GE Oil & Gas has won a surface wellhead and Xmas tree equipment and services contract from Statoil for its Johan Sverdrup project in the North Sea. GE Oil & Gas will manufacture, deliver and install its standardized surface wellhead and…