Wood Group Intetech (WG Intetech) has appointed Ogo Ikenwilo to the role of regional well integrity manager – North Sea. Ikenwilo will manage the company’s North Sea client base while identifying opportunities to increase its regional market share…
Norway's Cubility has appointed Jose Limia as the company’s regional manager for North America. Limia’s role will be to grow sales of the MudCube technology across the North American market, with specific emphasis on offshore drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico…
Appearing at the at the Society of Petroleum Engineers conference in Dubai in 2013, Dr. Robert Dale discusses how Natural Language Generation is being used to help operators make sense of their data; his company Arria NLG's technology could be used to help the industry…
Subsea 7 discusses its new autonomous inspection vehicle. Find out more about the technology in the October 2014 edition of Offshore Engineer.
GE's latest Deepwater Vertical Xmas Tree is designed to reduce delivery lead times, with the objectives of higher reliability and extended service life. Rated for depths of up to 3000m, it is equipped with the SemStar5-R, GE’s next-generation…
Watch Helix's ROV support vessel Grand Canyon, on its way from Tersan shipyard in Turkey to Norway for final fitment. Grand Canyon is one of Helix's life-of-field vessels that blends the advantages of both dedicated intervention vessels with vessels of opportunity…
Eni scooped up three new exploration licenses in Egypt as a result of the 2013 Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. (EGPC) and the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co. (EGAS) international licensing bid rounds. Two of the three blocks are located…
Nalco Champion and BP plc representatives recently participated in a contract signing event to officially commemorate a new chemical managed services global framework agreement (GFA) between the two companies. The 10-year GFA was awarded to Nalco Champion at the beginning of Q2 2014…
Houston-based Friede and Goldman, Ltd. (F&G), a naval architecture and marine engineer firm, approves the use of the Siemens jacking control system for use on their jackup rig designs. F&G says their customers will have an option to choose…
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc.’s well intervention vessel, the Skandi Constructor, is moving to the Gulf of Mexico to begin operations in 1Q 2015. The Skandi Constructor, a dedicated light intervention mono hull equipped with the Helix 7 3/8in…
Norway’s Lundin Petroleum will acquire operatorship and 50% interest from Petronas Carigali in PM328, offshore Malaysia. The agreement is effective on 31 August 2014. In the first 18 months of the three-year production sharing contract (PSC)…
Aberdeen-based Wireline Engineering further expanded its operations in Southeast Asia with an increase in staff and office space. Equipment maintenance is carried out by skilled technicians. Image…
Pile Dynamics Inc. (PDI) has reengineered its traditional Pile Integrity Tester (PIT) model. The updated model gives the PIT a large and bright color screen, a lighter enclosure and a USB port for data transfer. This model is available…
Maersk Drilling named their fourth ultra deepwater drillship this morning in a ceremony held at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South Korea. Maersk Voyager Image…
The results of Mexico’s upcoming bidding round for 109 exploration blocks and 60 producing fields could be crucial in determining the country’s future position as an oil and gas powerhouse, according to an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData…