Baker Hughes has been developing completion technology and well control with Petrobras in deepwater ever since its first intelligent completion system contract in the early 2000s. Claudio Paschoa found out more. Baker…
Managing the process and the power systems that serve it through a single integrated control system can cut costs while giving a much better overview of the total plant. Laya Sathyadevan explains. Managing…
In advance of OE’s 2014 Global FPSO Forum, Managing Editor Audrey Leon spoke with Peter Lovie, Senior Advisor, Floating Systems for Peter M Lovie PE, LLC, and program chair for Global FPSO Forum; Arjan Voogt, MARIN USA; and Bruce Crager, Endeavor Management…
Audrey Leon takes a look at recent exploration and production activities occurring offshore Tunisia. Top: The Ashtart platform offshore Tunisia. Bottom: The Maamoura platform operated by Eni Tunisia…
SBM Offshore discusses some of the company’s developing technologies and how it is working toward unlocking reserves in the Gulf of Mexico. Exploration for fields further offshore and in deeper waters is leading to the development of more complex reservoirs…
China's Shanghai Ocean University (SHOU) has been building the program at its new Hadal Science and Technology Research Centre (HAST). The Hadal Zone is ultra deewater, 6000m-11,000m below the surface and includes deep trenches formed by tectonic subduction…
Vaalco Energy has resumed production from the Etame Marin block after completing maintenance work on its leased floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The vessel had the fire and gas detection systems upgraded along with other routine maintenance work…
Ian Phillips joins the Oil and Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) as chief executive. Phillips has more than 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry and brings a unique blend of experience, including 19 years in the operator community…
Heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling firm Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Framo pumping systems to Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea for use on Total's Egina FPSO. The order, worth about SEK 240 million…
Havyard is to deliver the ship design and equipment for four anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels that are to be built and operated by the Brazilian shipping company and shipyard group Grupo CBO. The contract has been entered into by Havyard Design & Solutions…
A partner on the Laggan-Tormore project, west of Shetland, in UK waters, has said first oil is likely to be delayed from the end of 2014 to 2015. DONG Energy’s CEO Henrik Poulsen said Total, the operator of Laggan-Tormore, was reviewing…
Det norske oljeselskap's wildcat exploration well 2/9-5S on the Heimdalshø prospect found no hydrocarbons. Det norske said the well, the first in production license (PL) 494, about 30 km east of the Norwegian North Sea Valhall field…
Lundin Petroleum's latest Luno II appraisal well found oil but with lower than expected reservoir properties, leading the firm to revise down its resource estimate for the field to between 27 and 71MMboe. Lundin said the target of appraisal well 16/4- 8 S in the Luno II discovery…
San Diego, California-based Sempra Energy is considering adding liquefaction capacity to its LNG regasification plant at Energía Costa Azul (ECA) in Baja California, Mexico. Subsidiary Sempra LNG's Energía Costa Azul is the first liquefied…
The US Coast Guard announced that the first launch and landing of an unmanned aircraft system from an icebreaker occurred on the flight deck of the USCGC Healy on 18 August in Arctic waters. The aircraft is being evaluated to determine…
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