AIMS Global Consulting, part of the Whiterock Group, has appointed KR Solutions (KRS), Norway, to represent them in Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). KRS is based in Stavanger and is headed by Kjell Roverud who has many years’ experience in the oil and gas service sector…
Claxton developed an extension module for its suspended well abandonment tool (SWAT), enabling Claxton and Acteon sister company, Offshore Installation Services Ltd. (OIS), to set deeper environmental and intermediate barriers. The existing…
Pulse Structural Monitoring (Pulse), an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract with National Oilwell Varco (NOV) Arendal in Norway to provide an acoustic mooring line subsea monitoring system to measure mooring line inclination and tension…
Total and its project partners have deployed the Sonardyne Fusion 6G technology offshore Angola at the Kaombo oil field. Using the technology’s Wideband 2 digital signal architecture, common tasks such as template installation, touch-down…
Brazil’s deepwater offers huge opportunities, but also big technology challenges. The Industry Technology Facilitator’s Paddy O’Brien and Arthur Braqa explain. Images from ITF. Offshore…
Despite rapid progress in the 1980s and 1990s, ROV technology development has ground to a halt, according to some. Are we on the brink of a new era? Elaine Maslin reports. A UHD generation III during offshore deployment…
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…
Most of the building blocks are in place for the all-subsea solution. But do they offer an attractive proposition? Elaine Maslin looks at DNV GL’s current thinking. Operations during the Åsgard…
Gregory Hale looks at how automation capabilities are removing guess work and allowing for real-time decision-making. The architecture for an automated rig allows for portable, machine independent…
A new offshore play is emerging in the oil and gas exploration business – deepwater contourites. Elaine Maslin spoke to Professor Dorrik Stow about what and where they are and how they were found and how scientific deepwater drilling is helping to unlock their secrets…
Audrey Leon spoke to Rustom Mody, Vice President and Chief Engineer, Baker Hughes Enterprise Technology, to learn more about the company’s research and development of nanotechnologies. Inside the Baker Hughes nanotechnology lab…
2H Offshore has been awarded a contract by Chevron to manage a production riser weld qualification testing program. Image from Chevron. The aim of the development of 20,000 psi…
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Statoil signed an agreement on research funding for future energy solutions. Statoil CEO Eldar Sætre (left) and NTNU Rector Gunnar Bovim…
AVEVA announced that Orgneftekhim Holding, the parent company for a number of Russian engineering institutes and construction and procurement companies, has standardized on AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) for all engineering and design projects…
Weatherford International announced the commercial release of JetStream Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) circulation sub at the 2015 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. Poor wellbore integrity can cause events such as stuck pipe…
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