Elaine Maslin looks at efforts to breathe new life into old oil and gas platforms, such as refitting for renewable energy, while also cutting CO2 emissions and cost. An illustration of the Win Win (wind-powered water injection) project…
Offshore enhanced oil recovery pilots in the North Sea are paving the way towards helping to get more heavy oil out of the ground. Elaine Maslin reports. Biopolymer containers on Heidrun’s deck…
Audrey Leon chats with Statoil’s Helge Hove Haldorsen about the positive results emerging from Mexico’s energy reform, how it compares to Statoil’s own experience as a state-owned operation, and its overall strategy in the Mexican Gulf. Helge…
Ahead of the Underwater Technology Conference (UTC) in Bergen this June, Elaine Maslin spoke with program chairman Nils Arne Sølvik and Statoil’s Chief Engineer Subsea Technology & Operations, Rune Mode Ramberg, about some of the topics likely to come up…
AGR has been awarded a frame agreement to deliver well and drilling engineering advice to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to support evaluation of drilling programs, well design and testing, completions and plugging and abandoning…
Kongsberg Maritime Inc., the North American division of Norway headquartered marine and offshore technology company Kongsberg Maritime, and Houston headquartered Stress Engineering Services have formed a strategic alliance to better serve…
ABS granted Approval in Principle (AIP) to Frontier Deepwater Appraisal Solutions for an ultra deepwater Appraisal Production System (APS) that will provide critical production data for reserves located in ultra deepwater areas. Intended for deployment early in the appraisal process…
GE has upgraded its ProSolv WI8581 wax inhibitor for offshore and onshore oil and gas production. Wax inhibitors help producers maintain an uninterrupted flow of crude oil. GE's upgraded product is highly concentrated and winterized to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness…
Houston-based Flotek Industries and IBM have agreed to develop a cognitive reservoir performance system for the oil and gas industry. The new system uses IBM Watson Explorer technology to analyze Flotek’s proprietary oilfield chemistry research…
Operator Engie E&P Norge has awarded contracts to TechnipFMC and Aker Engineering and Technology for feasibility studies for the Cara project in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The studies intend to show the potential, challenges and opportunities at an early stage of the development…
C6 Technologies, an oilfield technology company offering new solutions for well intervention and conveyance utilizing composite materials, is performing field trials on its new ComTrac system after extensive test well runs. C6 Technologies – a joint venture by Archer Ltd…
Wintershall has started production from its first-ever operated Danish oil field, the Ravn field in the North Sea. The Ravn platfrom. Image from Wintershall. Ravn is in Block 5/06 in the Danish North Sea…
Trelleborg’s engineered products operation recently completed a milestone project for BW Offshore for the complete in-house design and fabrication of floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) elastomeric bearing structures. Supplied to Premier Oil's Catcher FPSO in 2016…
Eni started up its new HPC3 (high performance computing) in the Green Data Center in Ferrera Erbognone, Italy. HPC3 allows Eni to fully support all the activities in the exploration and production sector. Together with the co-existing HPC2 system…
Emerson Automation Solutions has launched the latest version of its reservoir management software suite - Roxar Tempest 8.0 - bringing reservoir engineers more tools to maximize the potential of their fields. The latest version features additional history-matching capabilities…
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