Technology News


Starting from the (ocean) bottom

Mar 01, 2017

A seismic shift – pun intended – has been made in ocean bottom node technology. It is being made more efficient and cheaper to deploy, bringing it closer to challenging the high-end towed streamer market. Elaine Maslin reports. Miniaturization…

Neural networking by design

Mar 01, 2017

Artificial neural networks are being used to help design floating production system hulls in the concept and front-end engineering phases. Elaine Maslin reports. Libra and her possible smaller…

Operating in the margins

Mar 01, 2017

With more than 3 billion boe up for grabs, the race is on to find ways to unlock the remaining oil and gas in around 350 unsanctioned, and largely marginal, UK Continental Shelf discoveries. Emma Gordon reports on the latest developments…

Providing a boost

Mar 01, 2017

Audrey Leon speaks with Cesar Granados, Mexico country manager at Weatherford, to get the service company’s perspective on Mexico’s newly opened oil and gas industry, and what role Weatherford aims to play in it. A…

The lifting business

Mar 01, 2017

Audrey Leon chats with Schlumberger, Baker Hughes and Weatherford to learn about the latest technologies available for artificial lift. Dedicated Schlumberger surveillance engineers monitor alarms to prevent or mitigate adverse events…

PRT gets Interventek Revolution valve for GOM

Feb 28, 2017

Interventek Subsea Engineering has signed a two-year exclusive deal with Louisiana-based Professional Rental Tools (PRT) to supply its in-riser Revolution valve for well intervention operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Interventek will supply its 6…

Trelleborg debuts FireNut app

Feb 27, 2017

Trelleborg has launched a new mobile app for FireNut solution. Image of a flange with FireNut, from Trelleborg. To make it even easier to specify FireNut, Trelleborg’s offshore…

Webtool develops Cable Retrieval Tool

Feb 24, 2017

Hydraulic systems specialist, Webtool, has developed a gripping and lifting tool for recovering subsea umbilical and cable for offshore oil and gas and decommissioning projects. The Cable Retrieval Tool (CRT200), developed in consultation…

Tampnet installs first GoM 4G/LTE base station

Feb 21, 2017

Tampnet has installed the first-ever operational offshore 4G/LTE base station in Gulf of Mexico (GoM). According to the company, the 4G LTE coverage will enable a number of new ways of working for an industry that has, since the significant drop in oil prices…

Fugro, Shell partner for XPRIZE

Feb 16, 2017

Fugro announced a partnership with the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE to support the oil major's global, three-year ocean mapping competition. The competition is looking for rapid, unmanned and high resolution ocean mapping technologies…

Wintershall to use iQx at Maria

Feb 16, 2017

Germany’s Wintershall will use AGR’s well data management and analysis software tool iQˣ for its Maria field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). iQˣ is designed to optimize well performance and drilling management by providing a data and knowledge management platform…

ExxonMobil sets reservoir computing record

Feb 16, 2017

ExxonMobil, working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), has achieved a major breakthrough with proprietary software using more than four times the previous number of processors used on complex oil and gas reservoir…

ProSep awarded Troll B gig

Feb 15, 2017

Integrated process solutions provider ProSep will supply one ProDry unit to Statoil for the Troll B ZMP Project. ProSep’s project scope of supply – awarded through Aker Solutions – began in January 2017 and is expected to last approximately five months…

Aramco, Baker Hughes complete rigless ESP deployment

Feb 09, 2017

Saudi Aramco and Baker Hughes (BHI) have completed the first installation of the TransCoil rigless-deployed electrical submersible pumping (ESP) system, which is designed to help operators bring wells on production faster and lower the costs associated with installing and replacing ESPs…

Halliburton expands Dash system capabilities

Feb 07, 2017

Halliburton (HAL) released the Dash Large Bore Subsea Safety System, which provides full electrohydraulic control of well safety and intervention functions. The fully customizable system brings new benefits to deepwater operators for completion…

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