Elaine Maslin surveys a variety of floating offshore wind projects due onstream in the near future. Statoil’s Hywind project. Image from Statoil. This year, floating offshore…
Well intervention spending has been hit harder than other areas, but it is not due to a lack of opportunities. Elaine Maslin reports. Island Offshore’s Island Frontier. Image from Island Offshore…
Audrey Leon chats with Schlumberger, Baker Hughes and Weatherford to learn about the latest technologies available for rigless plugging and abandonment operations. Rig-Free heavy-duty pulling and jacking unit…
EIC’s Andrew Scutter details the challenges and opportunities present offshore Senegal and Mauritania. Senegal Discoveries Map.Image from Far Ltd. During a challenging period for the industry…
While significant costs have been stripped out of the oil and gas industry, shale is fighting back. And, if the subsea industry is to survive, it will need more than just reduced costs, industry executives told the Underwater Technology Conference (UTC) in Bergen…
Marie Morkved shows how a desire to eschew ‘how we’ve always done it’ helped Maersk Oil take a different approach to well intervention – using coiled hose on its UK North Sea Balloch field. Coilhose…
Karen Boman assesses the market for West African oil and gas projects, and profiles Total’s Moho Nord development offshore Congo. The tension leg platform and Likouf FPU at the Moho Nord field…
Halliburton’s Ernst Schnell discusses a recent collaboration between Halliburton’s casing equipment team and a Scandinavian operator, which helped develop a rigless method for plugging a well through the Xmas tree. Rigless AbandaSystem schematic…
Audrey Leon discusses the next game-changing intervention technologies with OE’s Deepwater Intervention Forum advisory board members ahead of this year’s show. Onboard the Well Enhancer looking…
While offshore wind has taken off rather successfully in Europe – the US offshore wind industry has some way to go. Karen Boman reports on how existing offshore oil and gas technologies can be applied on offshore wind projects in the states…
The Taiwan Strait could be on the verge of an offshore wind boom. Elaine Maslin reports on ambitious targets and challenges. Image from iStock. Taiwan has set itself an ambitious offshore energy target…
Elaine Maslin examines the market for wave and tidal, and reports on industry efforts to drive down costs and eventually scale up. A Tocardo device, supported on a Damen-built “UFS,” at Hatston Pier…
Composite for coiled tubing has been tried before, but the industry wasn’t ready yet. Norway’s Prototech is taking another look. New software optimizes composite pipe based on typical CT loading conditions…
Where technology and collaboration can help the industry reduce the cost per barrel in a sustainable way will be a strong focus at this year’s SPE Offshore Europe, says conference chairman Catherine MacGregor, Drilling Group President, Schlumberger…
Elaine Maslin surveys some of the plugging and abandonment solutions presented at Sintef’s Experimental P&A Research for the North Sea event in Trondheim, Norway. Alexandra Bech Gjørv Plugging…