In this video, Island Offshore shows a successful pilot hole that was drilled for Centrica Energy by using open water coil tubing. Multi purpose offshore vessel, the Island Constructor, drilled a shallow gas pilot hole down to 360m below mudline at the Butch PL 405-field…
Despite slower than anticipated demand for well intervention services, service firms are ploughing ahead with new designs and solutions to help operators get more out of their wells. Elaine Maslin highlights some of the activity in the market…
OSD-IMT, the UK division of Netherlands-based Offshore Ship Designers (OSD), is designing two 120m IMT9120 riserless light well intervention / IMR vessels for Austin Offshore, the shipping arm of Upstream Drilling, Singapore. The…
In this video, Magma Global shows an animation of the m-pipe intervention line. The Magma m-pipe has applications in IWOCS, downline and chemical injection systems, offering the benefit of lightweight, robust construction and deployment…
In advance of 2015 Deepwater Intervention Forum held in Galveston, Texas, OE’s Managing Editor Audrey Leon discusses the intervention market in the wake of the downturn, and speaks with several forum board members ahead of the show on 11-13 August…
Getting the best out of subsea wells has always been important given the significant investment cost. This becomes especially true when field economics come under pressure. Having a subsea well intervention strategy is a key part of maximizing…
Fugro’s multi-purpose drilling, well intervention and geotechnical vessel, Fugro Synergy, is proving her capabilities on a multi-well intervention campaign which recently started in the Gulf of Mexico. The campaign involves utilization of a top-tensioned 6…
GE Oil & Gas and Enpro Subsea entered in an agreement to jointly market and provide fluid intervention services that offer oil and gas operators a cost-effective way to improve production rates in producing wells. The companies have signed…
Subsea Services Alliance announces the first joint technology project between OneSubsea and Helix to engineer and manufacture a 15,000-psi intervention riser system. This jointly developed technology advances the alliance’s objectives…
FTO Services shows its riserless light well intervention at work in this video. Riserless light well intervention is able to reduce well intervention costs by eliminating the need to use a drilling rig and it also increases the number of well interventions that can be performed…
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…
Helix Energy Solutions Group, OneSubsea, and Schlumberger executed definitive agreements for the companies’ non-incorporated alliance, formed to develop technologies and deliver equipment and services to optimize the value chain of subsea well intervention systems…
Subsea well intervention activities are expected to flourish over the next five years, predicts analysts Douglas Westwood. Despite the recent plunge in oil price, the firm says it expects the global subsea wellstock to increase over the period by 41%…
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…
Sarah Parker Musarra spoke with well intervention vessel providers, following a panel discussion at the 2014 Deepwater Intervention Forum, to examine the pros and cons behind using purpose built or dedicated vessels. Helix’s…