NorSea Group (UK) has won a five-year contract with Wild Well Control for the storage of its emergency response WellCONTAINED System at NorSea Group’s facilities in South Base, Montrose. The WellCONTAINED system of services includes…
Claxton Engineering Services, an Acteon company, has formed a collaborative alliance with energy services firm LR Senergy to provide clients with an offshore rig-based decommissioning service. The new alliance builds on a long-established relationship between the two companies…
Aberdeen-based sand control technology firm has secured a contract with Statoil following a successful trial of its downhole well completions technology. Darcy has signed a framework agreement with Statoil to supply its unique hydraulic…
Image from Baker Hughes. Baker Hughes announced the commercial release of FATHOM XT SUBSEA525 inhibitor that helps control asphaltene deposition in deepwater wells. The…
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…
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…
Oil and gas operators will have to approach the challenge of decommissioning in new ways if the goal of maximizing economic recovery from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is to be achieved, according to a report from professional services firm KPMG…
Borets, a provider for the engineering, manufacturing, sales and service of electric submersible pump (ESP) systems, has successfully conducted a North American field trial of its PMM-PCP system, the first permanent magnet motor (PMM) running…
A portable Intervention Work Over Control System (IWOCS) deployment system developed by Caley Ocean Systems has been used to successfully test the manifold functions on four deepwater subsea manifolds post installation. Image…
Driven by the rapid expansion of shale oil and gas drilling, and production in North America, the world market for oil field specialty chemicals at the service company level reached US$25 billion in 2014, up from nearly $16 billion in 2010…
Engineering firm Plexus' Asian joint venture with Integrated Petroleum Services, Plexus Products, has secured a PETRONAS license to manufacture and supply Plexus’ POS-GRIP wellhead equipment in Malaysia. Plexus believes that with the PETRONAS license secured…
Statoil Petroleum awarded Baker Hughes an eight-year contract to design and supply production chemicals to the offshore Norne field and the deepwater Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea. Work is anticipated to begin in July 2015…
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…
Fugro is providing wave measurements to support construction operations at an improved oil recovery (IOR) project on the Norwegian continental shelf, around 225km west of Stavanger. The subsea infrastructure on the Alvheim field…
UK-based Expro Group has been awarded new contracts from Tullow Oil worth more than US$100 million over three years. The contracts will see Expro work across Tullow Oil’s assets in Ghana, including the Jubilee field and the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) field project (see map)…