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Trendsetter completes Gunflint subsea delivery

Mar 02, 2016

Trendsetter Engineering has completed delivery of the subsea equipment for Noble Energy’s Gunflint project. Trendsetter’s scope consisted of five subsea pipeline end termination (PLET) and inline sled (ILS) structures, three jumper kits…

Trelleborg gets Shah Deniz order

Mar 02, 2016

Trelleborg’s offshore operation has been awarded an order for thermal insulation and corrosion coating services for phase II of the BP Project, Shah Deniz, contracting directly to Azeri firm BOS Shelf. The contract is expected to begin in 2015 and run until approximately 2022…

Asset Guardian selected for Total UK

Mar 02, 2016

Asset Guardian Solutions Ltd. (AGSL), which specializes in protecting companies’ process control software assets, announced that Total has selected its software management platform Asset Guardian.  The software will help to secure the integrity…

Schlumberger releases AxeBlade bits

Mar 01, 2016

Smith Bits, a Schlumberger company, has released the AxeBlade ridged diamond element bit, which incorporates new-geometry Axe ridged diamond elements across the bit face. AxeBlade bits are designed to improve rate of penetration (ROP) in…

ONE funding for UK Oil and Gas Technology Centre

Mar 01, 2016

Opportunity North East (ONE) is working with oil and gas industry leaders to establish Aberdeen as a global center for offshore technology research and development. The funding announced by the UK and Scottish governments through the…

Fiscal focus

Mar 01, 2016

Today’s flow metering systems for petroleum products must not only precisely monitor production and transfers; they also need to provide robust data to underpin digital intelligence for improved decision-making, says Honeywell Process Solutions’ Tim Vogel…

Assessing Mexico’s geological potential

Mar 01, 2016

Heather Saucier examines the potential of deepwater plays to be auctioned in Mexico’s next offshore round, including the most prized area in the Perdido Fold Belt. Shell’s deepwater Perdido spar in the US Gulf of Mexico…

Dawn of the data engineer?

Mar 01, 2016

Oil and gas has all the resources for a big data revolution – so what’s holding us back? Robert Dickson, Director – field development project excellence at io sets out his view. Image from iStock…

Cyber shy

Mar 01, 2016

Efficiency gains could be made through better use of digital technologies, but the industry is still shy on the uptake. Nada Ahmed, senior consultant, DNV GL - Oil & Gas, looks at the opportunities and risks.  Images from DNV GL…

In your (completion) dreams

Mar 01, 2016

Elaine Maslin reports on Saudi Aramco’s work to improve recovery through “smart” completions, thereby simultaneously reducing intervention. Dr Mohamed Nabil Noui-Mehidi speaking at the Society…

Clever composites

Mar 01, 2016

Sometimes, new materials and new manufacturing processes fortuitously emerge, just at the time they are needed. At least Magma Global hopes that’s the case. Elaine Maslin reports. m-pipe in production…

All in the water

Mar 01, 2016

For subsea separation and produced water re-injection or discharge to really take hold, technology gaps in subsea water quality measurement must be closed. Progress is being made, says NEL’s Ming Yang. Marlim Subsea Separation System…

Upping the Amps

Mar 01, 2016

After making a splash on the market with its pinless, wetmate connector Maelstrom in 2013, Elaine Maslin examines how Bergen’s WiSub is upping the game. The Torden pinless wet mate connector.  Small…

MEMS the word

Mar 01, 2016

Norwegian universities have a great habit of directing their students towards research that quite often results in a new technology – and new businesses. Elaine Maslin reports on a new business bringing micro-electronic mechanical systems to the subsea business…

When the forecasts are flawed

Mar 01, 2016

Subsea processing market projections have consistently overestimated the growth of the market – DNV GL looked into why. Elaine Maslin reports. For the last 15 years a number of market outlooks…

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