Technology News


Flow Research predicts new technology growth

Sep 10, 2014

A new research study from Flow Research, Volume X: The World Market for Flowmeters, 5th Edition finds that the worldwide new-technology flowmeter market totaled US$4 billion in 2013 and is projected to grow substantially to exceed $5.7 billion by 2018…

Sembcorp buys SSP and builds new facility

Sep 10, 2014

Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine announced they invested millions of dollars in the purchase of an American company and in a new facility in Singapore. The SSP Hub is capable of integrated delivery…

GE enters Freeport LNG project

Sep 10, 2014

GE Oil & Gas announced that it is providing both technology and capital to help expedite construction of the Freeport LNG gas liquefaction and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in Southeast Texas. GE is supplying the main refrigeration compressors…

Belden program to train, certify industrial network professionals

Sep 09, 2014

Belden Inc. introduces its Hirschmann Industrial Ethernet Network program to professionals responsible for industrial network infrastructures throughout North America. The program seeks to train, test and qualify individuals’ skills and…

Wärtsilä's supplying 2-stroke dual-fuel engines

Sep 09, 2014

Wärtsilä's 2-stroke dual-fuel technology will be featured on two new, large 180,000 cbm LNG carriers. South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries and SK Shipping and Marubeni are building the carriers that will be powered by 6-cylinder Wärtsilä X62DF 2-stroke dual-fuel engines…

Wärtsilä’s LNGPac gets AIP certificate

Sep 09, 2014

The new Wärtsilä LNGPac has been granted an AIP (Approval in Principle) Certificate from the classification society DNV GL. The AIP Certificate covers Wärtsilä’s improvements to the original LNGPac. The new solution has removed the heating media skid and its pumps…

Emerson offers ease-of-use SCADA platform

Sep 09, 2014

Emerson Process Management released the OpenEnterprise v3 SCADA platform for the upstream production and distribution market.  The OpenEnterprise release offers ease-of-use and expanded device connectivity for communication protocols…

Subsea alliance sets out new technology

Sep 08, 2014

Two years in the making, Aker Solutions and Baker Hughes’ subsea production alliance was rubber-stamped by the regulatory authorities last week. The alliance, which brings together two companies that might not be seen as natural bed-fellows…

Oil giants join oil spill project

Sep 04, 2014

Big oil companies Eni Norge, Statoil, Gdf Suez E&P Norge, OMV Norge and the Norwegian Coastal Administration are teaming up with Aptomar to strengthen technology functionality and communication infrastructure for offshore oil spill detection and management systems…

Aker, Baker Hughes approved for subsea production alliance

Sep 04, 2014

Aker Solutions and Baker Hughes Inc. received necessary regulatory approvals for the Subsea Production Alliance announced in April 2014. The two companies agreed to form the alliance a few months ago develop technology for production solutions designed to boost output…

How to break a pipeline

Sep 01, 2014

An alternative view of pipework vibration management by Neil Parkinson, technical director at AV Technology. Complex offshore pipework. Images from AV Technology Some incidents are guaranteed to make headlines…

Breaking barriers

Sep 01, 2014

Jerry Lee discusses new and improved drill bit designs and technologies with several leading companies. Rising energy demand has resulted in the need to reach reserves in more complex formations. The more complex the formation, the more…

Protecting assets through better data trending

Sep 01, 2014

Elaine Maslin examines how better data trending and a focus on key hubs could help improve ailing production efficiency rates and extend asset life on the UK Continental Shelf and beyond. NI CompactRIO…

Stinger technology aims to optimize pre-salt drilling

Sep 01, 2014

Claudio Paschoa discusses Stinger conical diamond technology with João Pedro Tocantins, Senior Product Engineer from Schlumberger’s Smith Bits.  The CDE, centrally placed in a PDC drill bit cutting structure…

Well surveillance in ultra-deepwater

Sep 01, 2014

As the industry advances into ultra-deepwater, an increasing number of tight tolerance wells require an efficient system for determining early influxes or losses during drilling, tripping, and cementing operations. Scott Hilliard of Statoil and Florian Le Blay…

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