Wood Group Intetech (WGI) joined forces with Wood Group Kenny (WGK) to develop a new, integrated software package for advanced corrosion modelling of pipelines: Maestro, powered by ECE. WGI’s ECE is an established tool for the…
Modeling flow assurance regimes is no easy task, not least for long distance tiebacks, where the need for accurate modeling is crucial. Alexander Belkin outlines a model he has worked on. During the past several decades, offshore oil…
Clariant Oil Services introduces SCALETREAT FeS, a low-dose, continuous injection iron sulfide scale inhibitor. Standard practices allow scale to form and relies on a chelating option or dissolver for removal, however, performance SCALETREAT FeS prevents scale formation in the first place…
Intertek has invested US$2.8 million in its new Abu Dhabi Technology Centre, which supports new exploration and existing operational activity. The Abu Dhabi Technology Centre is currently equipped to provide reservoir characterization services…
NEL has invested more than £0.5 million in the development of its Glasgow-based Wet Gas Facility. The investment has created the UK’s only independent commercial test facility able to test meters to such high flowrates for wet gas conditions…
Paul Ellerton business unit manager at Apollo discusses how to identify corrosion risk using multiphase flow assurance tools. CFD on a tubing hanger. Aging assets have a greater need for more routine maintenance inspections…
Dow is introducing technologies developed for multiple oil and gas applications, including extraction, production, refining, gas treatment and oil distribution, at Rio Oil & Gas 2014. Dow says their technologies improve energy efficiency…
FPSO, deepwater riser and subsea architecture. Photos from Flowsure. Ensuring successful fluid flow has always been at the heart of the oil and gas industry. However, it is only in the last…
DEH cable being placed into the traditional protection system, which is a labor and time intensive process. Images from Nexans. Exploration and production in harsher environments and deeper waters…
Emerson Process Management has opened a flow loop facility for Roxar technologies in Stavanger. The new facility will increase production capacity and drive future developments in multiphase meters, enabling oil and gas operators to access…
Corac Group, the gas, air and energy technologies business, has extended its test facility at its Technology Centre in Slough, operated by its subsidiary Corac Energy Technologies (CET), with a “dirty gas” flowloop (pictured). CET develops…
Nexans' Direct Electrical Heating (DEH) cable systems will be installed to help maintain the reliable flow of products from the Shah Deniz field, located in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. The world's largest DEH project to…
Charles Wemyss discusses positive displacement meters and how they can benefit flow measurement in chemical injection applications. VFF meter. Images: Litre Meter Keeping up with the global…
Chevron Energy Technology Company and GE Oil & Gas have formed a technology alliance to develop and commercialize technologies for the oil and gas industry. TheChevron GE Technology Alliance will build on existingcollaboration between…
The longest pig run was performed along the Nord Stream pipeline between Germany and Russia last year. Elaine Maslin found out more. At 1224km (759mi.) long, the Nord Stream’s twin offshore pipeline gas transportation sys- tem from Russia to Germany…