Mike Robertson (pictured) has been appointed development and operations manager of North Sea operator GDF Suez E&P UK. He joined the company in 2008, having previously held engineering and project management positions at both major service companies and operators including BP and Talisman.
Dr Nicolas Phillips has been named as head of marketing, technology and key accounts at Clariant Oil Services, based at the company’s Houston headquarters. Before joining Clariant two years ago to run the oil services business line’s marketing…
Patrick Phelan (pictured) became MD of drilling equipment and support services provider Aquaterra Energy last month. He joined from JDR Cable Systems, where he served as MD from 1999 to 2011. George Morrison, Aquaterra’s MD for the past six years…
Paul Tollefson (pictured) has been named manager, marketing and business development, multi-client and processing, at Dolphin Geophysical. Since joining the seismic industry in 1975, he has worked for Geco, Digicon, Veritas, CGG and CGGVeritas.
R Brian Hanson (pictured) succeeded Robert Peebler as CEO of ION Geophysical last month, adding to the role of president he assumed last August when the company announced a planned leadership transition. Peebler became ION’s executive chairman on 1 January.
Umberto Vergine has been appointed COO of Eni Gas & Power Division following Domenico Dispenza’s assignment to another post in the Italian group.
The offshore engineering team at Aquaterra Energy is hailing the 10,000psi-rated, 20in ID full bore drilling riser it recently installed for Apache North Sea as a world first. Designed specifically for Apache to drill three subsea wells on the Bacchus field from the Rowan Gorilla VII…
SKF group company S2M landed a two-year contract from MAN Diesel & Turbo and Aker Solutions Norway to supply custom-built SKF magnetic bearings and associated electronics for the subsea gas compression trains to be deployed on Statoil’s Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea…
Mooring Systems’ 150t spooler for the BP Valhall flowline.Aberdeen-based Moorings Systems has completed the installation of a flexible export flowline to transfer water to a DP tanker at the BP Valhall platform complex in the Norwegian North Sea…
Downhole memory tools specialist Omega Well Monitoring has launched the patents-pending Leakator, a tool optimised to locate leaks and monitor downhole flow.Omega said Leakator’s run-it-yourself capability means an existing on-site crew…
Marine technology developer Kongsberg Maritime is leading a new research project called ‘Situation Awareness and Decision Support Tools for demanding marine operations’ (SITAWARE), which kicked off on 2 February. Part-funded by the Norwegian…
The UC-Berkeley, California spin-out 4D Imaging has unveiled a pipeline integrity monitoring system based on magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI). The system transmits the status of a pipeline to the internet and gives pipeline operators a real-time picture of the health of the pipeline…
Serimax recently fabricated, field joint coated and hydrotested an 85m pipe-in-pipe I-spool on behalf of Technip for Dong Energy’s Oselvar field in the Norwegian North Sea. The I-spool comprises a 10in Super Duplex pipe, insulated along its length…
A new line of fire-resistant cables, developed by Keystone with input from engineers, consultants and contractors involved in Chevron’s Gorgon LNG project, will feature on the Westrade Australia stand at this month’s Australasia Oil & Gas show (Perth…
Norway’s SPT Group is hailing the next-generation release of its reservoir flow model optimization solution, the newly launched MEPO4, as the industry’s first model for rigorous optimization under uncertainty.Removing uncertainty is not possible…
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