Using steam to help increase oil recovery, particularly from heavy oil, is a well tried and tested technology, but not quite so offshore. Elaine Maslin looks at a bid to change that. Images from The Steam Oil Production Co…
Aker Solutions won a framework agreement to provide maintenance and modifications services at BP-operated oil and gas fields offshore Norway. The contract has a fixed period of five years valued at as much as NOK 3.2 billion. It also…
René Larsen, of Inspection and maintenance software specialists SafeEx, discusses how Ex inspection software was deployed on a gas compression jackup rig destined for the Cantarell field offshore Mexico. Data collection…
Jerry Lee investigates the use of hydraulic submersible pumps as an alternative to the common ESP for artificial lift operations. An ultra-high reliability hydraulic submersible pump. Photos from ClydeUnion Pumps - an SPX brand…
Flow visualization in horizontal wells is being improved thanks to carbon composite rods. Elaine Maslin takes a look. The yellow wireline mast suspends the top sheave and the pressure control equipment…
Getting to grips with the condition of older assets can be a difficult task. Stefano Copello outlines RINA’s approach to revitalization. The re-used jacket of the Nenè platform, owned by Eni Congo…
Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a three-year integrated services contract (ISC) by Maersk Oil covering its North Sea assets. The value of the contract has not been announced. The integrated services will start in September 2015 and will run for three years…
Exova Group’s Stuart Bond shows how the company is working to develop testing technologies to ensure SURF components are fit for HPHT and H2S service. Exova’s Dudley, UK, autoclave facility. Images…
UTEC NCS Survey, an Acteon company, has recently completed three months of AUV operations for a number of Saipem projects located in West Africa. UTEC NCS performed pre-lay and as-laid surveys using their Gavia autonomous underwater…
Research and Markets issued a new report on the global subsea BOP market, and the analyst firm says that it expects the market to grow at a CAGR of 6.5% over the period 2014-2019. BOP is a high pressure mechanical safety valve system at the top of a well head…
Desanding to stop wellbore tubing clogging-up is nothing new, but FourPhase has developed their own technology to keep the flow going. Neil Meldrum explains. A DualFlow system overview. Images from FourPhase…
Jeannie Stell looks at offshore heavy oil development economics with an eye on the current low-price environment. ExxonMobil expects its 52-well Hebron development project offshore Newfoundland to bring in first oil in 2017…
Advanced dynamic positioning (DP) vessels can now meet critical safety regulations while gaining operational flexibility, efficiency and cost savings through new design and monitoring methods. More operators are asking their drilling…
Oilfield services companies are putting a brave face on the continuing market downturn, despite some reporting shrinking order books. Subsea 7 and Fugro reported shrinking order books in their 1Q results this morning. Subsea 7’s…
Golder Associates has appointed Dr. Hisham Mahmoud as its president and CEO. He will be based in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Mahmoud’s career spans some 27 years, the majority of which has been in diversified global engineering and construction companies…
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