BP has been making strides in LowSal enhanced oil recovery techniques and Bright Water. It now has its sights set on polymerized water for its Quad 204 development. Elaine Maslin found out more. Onshore…
The sharp decline in oil prices over the past year has magnified the challenges that companies on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) have been grappling with for many years; increasing costs, falling exploration and aging infrastructure, coupled with commercial and legal complexity…
Applying materials and corrosion science to the study of corrosion fatigue in high-strength steel wire aids flexible riser performance understanding. Intertek’s Peter Barnes explains. Example of a riser performing on a platform…
Kristian Siem was early in his career when in 1978, with the market at rock bottom, he formed an investment group to take a punt on a rig. Now 65, the founder and chairman of Siem Industries, and chairman of Subsea 7 and Siem Capital, as well as director of a host of other companies…
Angus Rodger and Matt Howell discuss the exploration environment as well as the potential impact from the recent fall in oil prices on Australian and New Zealand projects. Graphs from Wood Mackenzie. Australia…
Return To Scene has won its first contract for the R2S photographic capture in Canada via Canadian distributor NSB Energy. Work on the contract, worth about US$ 800,000, has already started, said the firm. Return To Scene’s innovative…
Jeremy Berry examines the trend occurring off West Africa where exploration success continues to be confined to those countries that already have significant production. Fig. 1: West Africa production…
In this video Dong Energy gives an idea of how the Hejre oil and gas platform project is being carried out in the Danish part of the North Sea. Hejre is Dong Energy’s first high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) development and is…
Brazil's state-run oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro, will sign a contract to build and lease a floating production ship for its Libra offshore project this month, company Chief Executive Maria das Gracas Foster said on 18 September, as reported by Reuters…
Statoil has agreed to sell off stakes in the Aasta Hansteen spar development, the Polarled pipeline, and a discovery neighboring Aasta Hansteen to Germany’s Wintershall in a US$1.3 billion deal. As part of the deal, Statoil will also…
Jacket installation operations on Premier Oil’s Solan oil field development west of Shetland are due to start. The four-legged steel jacket for the field, in Block 205/26a, in 135m water depth, left the construction yard at Methil, Fife…
Petrobras announced drilling has started on the first exploration well on the Libra pre-salt area in the Santos basin offshore Brazil. Drilling on Libra, discovered in 2010, and estimated to contain 8-12 billion boe, comes as marine production…
Images from Decom North Sea More than £40 billion is expected to be spent on decommissioning in the next 25 years in UK waters alone. Dorothy Burke looks at how viewing decommissioning…
Exploration activity on the Norwegian shelf 'remains vigorous', with 13 new discoveries made this year, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD). As of 24 June, 33 exploration wells (23 wildcat and 10 appraisal wells) have been spudded and 33 terminated…
RWE Dea has achieved 30 years oil production in the Gulf of Suez. The company has produced over 640 million bbl of crude during these three decades. Ongoing investments in modern technology and infrastructure have maintained high production levels…
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