Raptor Oil Ltd, a pre-revenue start-up company is to invest £1.5 million on a new research and development (R&D) project to help boost performance in the oil and gas sector. Raptor is using proven proprietary signal processing technology…
The Middle East well intervention market is expected to reach US$2.4 billion by 2018, up from $1.37 billion in 2013, with a CAGR of 11.9%, according to a Research and Markets report. The Middle East, with 80.3 trillion cu/m, is home to 43…
Dubai-based Gulf Marine Services has won a new long-term contract award for one of its Large Class vessels. The vessel will start a four-year charter (three years firm with a one-year option) at the end of Q1 2015 on completion of…
Flow technology specialist SPX has opened a new Aberdeen Service Centre to provide local specialised pump repair services to independent oil companies and service providers in the North Sea oil and gas sector. Located in the ABZ Business Park…
Oilfield services firm AGR has been awarded a three-year well management services contract with options with Edison Norge, supporting Edison across its operating licences, including the its first operated exploration well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS)…
Aberdeen-based wellhead engineering firm Plexus Holdings has received purchase orders from Brunei Shell Petroleum to supply both high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) and standard pressured wellhead systems and services for three additional exploration wells under an existing four year contract…
Schlumberger Oilfield UK has been awarded the contract to provide integrated drilling and well services on the Statoil-operated Mariner heavy oil development in the UK North Sea. Mariner is the largest field development on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) in more than a decade…
Engineering services firm Plexus Holdings has received a £1.9 million purchase order from a major oil and gas operator to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for a gas and condensate exploration well in the UK North Sea…
Baker Hughes has announced the commercial release of its MultiNode all-electric intelligent well system, which allows operators to remotely monitor and control a greater number of production zones in both cased and openhole completions. The…
Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Petroleum has spudded two more wells on the Manora field off Thailand. Drilled with Atwood Oceanics’ jackup Atwood Orca, the MNA-04 and MNA-05 wells represent the fourth and fifth wells, respectively, of a planned 15 developmental well campaign set to end 1Q 2015…
Paradigm has released the latest version of Sysdrill 10, its integrated suite of well planning and drilling engineering applications. This upgrade is integrated with Peloton’s WellView/MasterView corporate database for drilling and well operations…
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured a contract from German shipyard Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft (FSG) for the complete delivery of remotely operated vehicle (ROV) access doors and hatches for two well-intervention vessels (WIVs)…
BG International, a subsidiary of BG Group, has signed up as the sixth major oil and gas consulting partner to Plexus Holding's on-going joint industry project (JIP). The JIP’s objective is to develop and commercialise a new and safer subsea wellhead HGSS…
Welltec, in partnership with Saudi Aramco, has produced what it it describing as the industry's first e-line tool designed to provide reliable, efficient, rigless access into laterals from the main wellbore. WellLIT detects each sidetrack window depth and then directs unmodified…
AGR has been awarded software contracts with Det norske oljeselskap, VNG (Norge) and OMV (Norge) worth in total about US$1 million. AGR will be delivering its bespoke software products P1, CT and iQˣ, which has been shortlisted for the ONS Innovation Award…
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