The Thermal Integrity Profiler (TIP) was awarded the 2015 winner of the Charles Pankow Award for Innovation by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The award celebrates collaboration in innovative design, materials, or construction…
The first meeting of a new knowledge-sharing forum on subsea integrity management practice will take place in Houston during OTC week. The SURF IM Network is being led by Wood Group Kenny with support from the Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) and 13 operating companies…
Experience can play a major role in the development of an effective flexible pipe integrity management system (FIMS) and plan. Unbonded flexible pipes have been deployed in the global oil and gas industry for more than 30 years…
Angus Lugsdin, business development manager at Tritech International, outlined the value of multibeam sonar technology for real-time integrity monitoring at a technical session on structural integrity at Aberdeen’s Offshore Europe Conference in September…
Properly implemented, structural integrity management can provide structural integrity assurance from design to decommissioning, explains Mohammad Nabavian of Wood Group PSN. The concept of structural integrity management (SIM) for offshore installations is maturing…
Aberdeen-based Meta Downhole Ltd., a downhole isolation company offering complete integrity across the life of the well, announced a contract with Shell for high-performance liner tieback solutions in the Gulf of Mexico. Meta will supply its V0 ISO14310-certified Meta Liner Tieback…
There’s been a much greater focus on well integrity since Macondo. However, well integrity is still viewed as a reactive process, with an increased focus on well monitoring and problems dealt with only after occurring. There is a real need…
Next Tuesday, April 30, OE will host new Expert Access webinar, this time featuring Patrick Zirnhelt and Jeremiah Woodford of IFS North America. Zirnhelt penned an article for OE’s April issue entitled “Increasing returns from asset management investment…
Tech talk. With the 44th Offshore Technology Conference in Houston just on the horizon, OE sought answers to the question, “What emerging technology will have a direct impact on the offshore market?” Our think tank had this to say: Neil Gordon…
Tech talk. With the 44th Offshore Technology Conference in Houston just on the horizon, OE sought answers to the question, “What emerging technology will have a direct impact on the offshore market?” Our think tank had this to say: Subsea Asset Integrity…
Eric Byres leads cyber security webinar Image: iStockphotoIn an OE exclusive webinar, readers were able to ask questions and listen to a live presentation with security expert Eric Byres, a SCADA specialist at Tofino Security. The forum…
Now in its 43rd year, the Offshore Technology Conference returns to Houston’s Reliant Park 30 April-3 May. Almost as old as the offshore industry itself, the annual gathering has thrived throughout an E&P era marked by peaks, valleys, tremendous…
Now in its 43rd year, the Offshore Technology Conference returns to Houston’s Reliant Park 30 April-3 May. Almost as old as the offshore industry itself, the annual gathering has thrived throughout an E&P era marked by peaks, valleys, tremendous…
Ageing FPSOs present naval architect with GL – installed March 2000 in 90m potential safety challenges that the oil & gas industry is only now coming to terms with, according to GL Noble Denton. ‘There have been over 200 floating production system deployments…
When setting out to reshape itself from a jack-of-all-trades drilling contractor to one with a deepwater future, Pride International realized it had to do more than simply change up its fleet. With deepwater assets tending to feature longer contract cycles than shallow and mid-water rigs…