Airborne Oil & Gas is taking a staircase approach to introducing new thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) technology to the oil and gas industry, with TCP risers in its sights. Elaine Maslin reports. A 6in TCP flowline…
Trendsetter Engineering has completed work on a containment toolkit that can be deployed to minimize the environmental impact of a subsea well incident. This follows their delivery of four subsea well capping stacks, designed to shut in an uncontrolled subsea well…
Logan Industries, based in Hempstead, Texas, will supply a compensated coiled tubing lift frame (CCTLF) to Maersk Drilling, which provides drilling services to oil companies around the world. The CCTLF system will be designed and built in…
Fugro set a new seafloor drill water depth record of 2923m (9589ft) while completing a combined sampling and piezocone penetration testing (PCPT) borehole to 62m (203ft) below the seafloor. Fugro seafloor drill…
Well Control School (WCS) announced the release of its supervisor-level IADC WellCAP accredited coiled tubing course through its e-learning program, System 21 e-Learning. This course uses advanced instruction and workshops on pressure control methodologies in coiled tubing operations…
Ask about subsea well intervention and most assume it’s riserless light well intervention you want to talk about – for good reason. Elaine Maslin reports. Subsea light well intervention visualized by FMC Technologies…
In this video, Tenaris shows how its next generation of coiled tubing, BlueCoil, works. Tenaris based its BlueCoil technology on new steel designs and manufacturing processes developed by the company to produce coiled tubing that is stronger…
Schlumberger released the ACTive Straddle coiled tubing real-time multiset inflatable packer, which provides all functions needed to isolate and treat multiple zones on a single run without coming out of the well, which reduces intervention time and optimizes production…
Tenaris is launching its next generation of coiled tubing, BlueCoil. Tenaris developed BlueCoil technology using innovative steel designs and proprietary manufacturing processes. The end result is a coiled tubing string with a vastly…
Luxembourg headquartered Neo Oiltools launched its downhole torque management tool, NeoTork. NeoTork automatically manages torque generated from the drill bit and mitigates axial and torsional vibrations. The system has been…
Expro won the Innovator Award at this year’s SPE Offshore Achievement Awards for its pioneering wireless well solutions technology. Champion receiving the award. Image from Expro. The…
The previous article Rigless Origins (OE: March 2014) detailed the Zakum project, which was carried out in 1969 offshore of Abu Dhabi, where all methods of running wireline from a vessel—in open water—were executed and assessed(1) (2). More importantly…
Oil & Gas Innovation Centre’s (OGIC) Ian Phillips, OGIC chief executive, will highlight how the pace of innovation in the oil and gas industry is significantly lower than in comparable industries at the 20thSPE ICoTA Well Intervention Conference in Aberdeen this week…
As a critical factor in optimising brownfield production, well intervention is a major fiscal and operational consideration for the North Sea. While there’s no doubt, as a mature province, the emphasis is shifting increasingly toward decommissioning and plugging and abandonment…
Specialist downhole tool provider, Peak Well Systems has expanded its product portfolio with the launch of its new SIMPLUS range of V3-Grade plugs certified to ISO14310. The portfolio employs an ISO-14310 Grade V3-rated SIMPLUS Retrievable…
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