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PGS adds another supercomputer

Oct 18, 2016

PGS has added another Cray XC supercomputer to its Houston Mega Center. The computer is named PGS Galois after the French mathematician Évariste Galois (1811-1832), and comes in addition to the Cray XC supercomputer PGS Abel delivered last year…

CGG GeoSoftware updates reservoir characterization portfolio

Oct 18, 2016

CGG GeoSoftware has released a series of software across its reservoir characterization product portfolio.  The delivery of InsightEarth 3.1, Jason 9.6, PowerLog 9.6, EarthModel FT 9.6 and VelPro 9.6 offer more productive workflow solutions…

Scotrenewables installs tidal turbine at EMEC

Oct 13, 2016

The 2MW SR2000 tidal turbine, developed and manufactured by Scottish engineering company Scotrenewables Tidal Power, has been installed on its moorings for the first time at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney as part of site commissioning and testing…

Emerson releases new multiphase flow meter

Oct 11, 2016

Emerson Automation Solutions has introduced the Roxar MPFM 2600 M multiphase flow meter. The Roxar MPFM 2600 M is designed to be a flexible and easily manageable wellhead measurement solution based on a field-proven technology platform. The…

Optime Subsea Services merges with Telemark Technologies

Oct 11, 2016

Optime Subsea Services, subsea technology company, will merge with engineering house Telemark Technologies to fast-track its subsea installation solution.   Telemark Technologies is a supplier of pressurized vessel systems for testing operations of subsea…

Teledyne releases SFMC AUV software

Oct 10, 2016

Teledyne Webb Research (TWR), a manufacturer of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) including the Slocum G2 glider and Slocum hybrid glider, has released their new glider piloting software, the Slocum Fleet Mission Control Software (SFMC)…

Shell uses 3D printing in GoM

Oct 10, 2016

Supermajor Shell gives another look at how the company is using 3D printing technology. Shell teams can produce scale prototypes of equipment destined for use in projects in a fraction of the usual time – from a huge buoy destined for the Gulf of Mexico…

FES delivers DBSCs to Altanta field

Oct 06, 2016

FES International delivered nine diverless bend stiffener connectors (DBSC) to the Atlanta field in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, operated by Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção (QGEP). The DBSCs, a part of a multi-million dollar contract between FES and QGEP…

Being responsive

Oct 06, 2016

Joe Mullin gives an update on the Arctic Response Technology joint industry project. Workers conduct field trials of the first-of-its-kind aerial oil spill response system near Fairbanks, Alaska…

OIL India, UH ink technology MoU

Oct 06, 2016

Oil India Ltd. (OIL) and the University of Houston (UH) have entered into an agreement to collaborate on technologies required to maximize recovery from aging oilfields in India.  The duo will cooperate in the fields of improved oil recovery and enhanced oil recovery…

Nexen uses PlanSea software for marine operations

Oct 05, 2016

PSV Frigg Viking in Aberdeen Harbour. Image courtesy of Jim Cargill Nexen has applied software developed by PlanSea Ltd., a Robert Gordon University spin-out company, to remove significant cost from its North Sea operations…

Seatools gets Seaway pile template instrumentation contract

Oct 04, 2016

Seaway Heavy Lifting has awarded Dutch subsea technology company Seatools a contract for the design and delivery of a piling template instrumentation and control system.  The contract includes the complete mechanical, electric, hydraulic…

Airborne begins TCP qualifications

Oct 03, 2016

Airborne Oil & Gas has started a project to qualify thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) for a deepwater jumper spool application for French operator Total. The non-corrosive and spoolable TCP aims to provide cost effective spools, well jumper…

Emerson acquires Permasense

Oct 03, 2016

Emerson has agreed to acquire UK-based Permasense Ltd., a provider of non-intrusive corrosion monitoring technologies for the offshore and onshore oil production, refining, chemical, power, pipelines, metals and mining and other industries…

ROVOP takes delivery of Seaeye Leopard ROV

Oct 03, 2016

ROVOP, an independent subsea remotely operated vehicle (ROV) service provider, has expanded its fleet of ROVs for the US region by taking delivery of a Seaeye Leopard electric work class ROV. The ROV will be added to ROVOP’s existing capability at its Houston base…

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