Saipem has celebrated setting new milestones in the oil service industry with the installation of two gas export free standing hybrid risers (FSHR), 20in and 19in respectively, in the Pre-Salt area of Santos Basin about 300km from the Brazilian shoreline…
Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum has successfully drilled its first horizontal deepwater well offshore the Ivory Coast. The firm encountered 100ft net of true vertical thickness (TVT) pay on the Paon-5A well using Bolette Dolphin drillship…
Scrap or refurbish and reuse? It’s a question being asked on the UK Continental Shelf. Elaine Maslin reports. Pipe, ready for reuse. Staff photo. At a recent conference in Aberdeen…
This year, the deepwater drilling record could be broken not just once, but twice, breaking the last record, set back in 2013. Elaine Maslin takes a look. Total’s Raya-1 well is due to be drilled offshore Uruguay using Maersk Oil’s ultra…
Ultra-deepwater exploration on the Atlantic margin could be the opportunity the offshore industry is looking for, according to geoscience firm Spectrum. Elaine Maslin reports. Maersk Venturer drillship…
Remaining competitive through the downturn is a tall order for some. Caitlin Shaw, of Quest Offshore Resources, examines how the exploration, drilling and subsea segments are expected to fare through 2017. The…
Weatherford’s Snorre Lutnes examines managed pressure drilling applications across key regions. MPD deployment. Images from Weatherford. Once reserved as a last resort for wells defined as undrillable…
Technip has signed an additional four-year extension of its five-year initial contract signed in January 2011 with Petrobras for its Flexible Pipes Logistic Base (BAVIT), in Vitória, Brazil. The scope covers storage, handling, inspection…
Cyprus-based Ocean Rig has stepped in to buy the sixth generation ultra-deepwater (UDW) drillship Cerrado, which once drilled the giant Libra prospect offshore Brazil, following its owner Brazil-based Schahin Group bankruptcy declaration last April…
Deep Sea Supply has been awarded multiple contracts by several international oil companies for work in the North Sea, offshore Asia, and South America. Statoil awarded Deep Sea a two-year contract, plus three yearly options for the PSV Sea Falcon for operations in the North Sea…
The Cross Group has won a contract to assist in pulling five flexible flowlines and an umbilical, with a maximum expected load of 44-tonne, onto a jacketed platform. The work will be performed using one of Cross Group’s Hepburn 83-MPE…
Malaysian state oil firm Petronas is due to start drilling offshore Suriname next month, the country's state oil firm says. Staatsolie says Petronas, with partner DEA, a German company, has lined up the Rowan Company's Ralph Coffman…
Brazil’s Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) recorded a total of 2.55 MMboe/d of oil and natural gas production in March, of which 2.36 MMboe were produced in Brazil and 183,000 boe/d abroad. Image of the P-31 FPSO…
Aker Solutions has opened its new subsea plant in Curitiba, Brazil. The facility will employ about 850 people and is dedicated to machining, welding, surface treatment, assembly and testing of christmas trees and other subsea equipment. It…
Repsol Sinopec Brazil has discovered hydrocarbon pay at the Gávea A1 well in the ultra deepwater pre-salt Campos basin, offshore Brazil. Map of Campos basin, from Statoil. Gávea A1…