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SPX launches new software

Aug 18, 2014

SPX Hydraulic Technologies launches its new flange integrity management system, Flange Pro. A site can count hundreds of thousands of flanges, whether onshore or offshore. Typically a third of them will be considered to be critical, a…

Mexico's Pena Nieto signs reform into law

Aug 12, 2014

Mexico’s oil and gas industry entered a new era on Monday when President Enrique Pena Nieto signed the long-awaited secondary legislation of the country’s recent energy reform into law, opening the country to private investment. The signing…

Helix, OneSubsea and Schlumberger form alliance

Aug 11, 2014

OneSubsea – a Cameron and Schlumberger company – Helix Energy Solutions Group, and Schlumberger announced that they have entered into a letter of intent to develop technologies and deliver services to optimize the cost and efficiency of subsea well intervention systems…

Kara Sea spudded despite sanctions

Aug 11, 2014

ExxonMobil began exploratory drilling operations in the Kara Sea’s Universitetskaya structure in the East Prinovozemelskiy area on 9 August, defying Western-imposed sanctions against Russian state-owned Rosneft. Drilling on the Universitetskaya-1 well…

Shell names new projects & technology director

Aug 07, 2014

Royal Dutch Shell plc has named Harry Brekelmans as projects and technology director, effective 1 October 2014. Brekelmans is currently Shell’s executive vice president operated, upstream international. He joined Shell in 1990 and has…

GE to resell Dream Report

Aug 06, 2014

GE Intelligent Platforms will resell Dream Report as a report generation tool for use across their automation software portfolio of products, announced Ocean Data Systems (ODS). Dream Report already includes drivers for most GE Intelligent…

Proserv appoints senior management team

Aug 06, 2014

Proserv appoints two vice presidents to its senior management team. Paul Douglas has been promoted to the role of VP operations with Bruce Stuart joining Proserv as VP sales and business development for Europe and West Africa (EWA) from FMC Technologies…

Intelligent manufacturing systems

Aug 05, 2014

As offshore platforms are automated from top to bottom, and integrators stitch together disparate systems and protocols into a smoothly-running continuum, the inevitable next step will be assimilation of the performance data with onshore management systems…

STATS opens UK facility

Aug 05, 2014

Left: Martin Wilson; Right: Dr. Mark Burton The Aberdeenshire-headquartered STATS Group opened a new intervention engineering and technical support hub and recruited two pipeline intervention services team members…

Tomax drilling jet impact

Aug 05, 2014

Norwegian drilling technology specialist Tomax released a video from an internal research program with recordings of the actual pressure impact from the drill-bit nozzles.  The video gives an insight to a “blind-zone” that is often critical for pressure-sensitive deepwater operations.

Going down under for anchor innovation

Aug 04, 2014

A Depla during scale testing. Images from Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS).  Dutch drag anchor specialists Vryhof Anchors have gone down under in a move to develop efficient deepwater anchor systems…

Synthetic opportunities

Aug 04, 2014

Crews ready a Samson Amsteel Blue Rope Sling for a ‘wet handshake’ operation on the Cascade Chinook Project. Photos from Samson.  Synthetic rope will never fully replace steel wire rope…

Magellan’s journey

Aug 04, 2014

GustoMSC’s sixth-generation Magellan-class drillship.Images from GustoMSC Ferdinand Magellan became the first to circumnavigate the globe with a brutal three-year journey beginning in 1519…

Building an offshore HSEQ ecosystem

Aug 01, 2014

Shore-side command centers are the hub for offshore communications and rescue coordination efforts. Images from McMurdo Group.  McMurdo Group’s Remi Julien discusses how different…

Norway’s challenges and opportunities

Aug 01, 2014

Ingrid Sølvberg, director for the Norwegian and Barents seas, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Photo from UTC.  Challenges to produce new areas, like the Barents, and extend the life of more mature regions…

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