ThoughtStream: Opinion In order to utilize quality to bring about an effective HSE system, first it must be defined. This in itself is a challenge as quality is often about the perception of the individual. Joseph Juran, principally remembered as an evangelist for quality…
ION Geophysical established a GX Technology (GXT) seismic data processing center in Perth, to serve the needs of oil & gas companies in Australia and throughout the Asia- Pacific region. The new center is staffed with geoscience professionals…
Subsea UK is calling on the UK government to back plans for a national program that will support and fund subsea research, and a UK-wide skills program that will help the sector find the 10,000 people it needs to capitalize on current and future demand…
Nexans has fine tuned its specialized facility at Halden in Norway, after a cable failed to meet the final acceptance test a couple of years ago and had to be remade. Meg Chesshyre visited the plant, which has a full order book and a more than two-year backlog…
Reservoir compaction and seafloor subsidence continue to be a significant concern for the oil and gas industry. Subsidence near oil and gas reservoirs is usually caused by a high production rates from multiple wells over many years. Production…
STM Group Inc (STM), a global satellite communications and engineering company, will expand its Brazil operations by adding a third teleport in Hortolandia, complementing its existing teleports in Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte. The satellite…
The HAL-PRM-150W-LED-100 surface mount hazardous area light by Larson Electronics features a powerful LED assembly fitted with 30 CREE XLamp XPG® LED emitters. The LED assembly is housed within a cast aluminum fixture with high-strength gasket…
Scandinavia’s oil and gas industry, focused on Norway and Denmark, is expecting a resurgence. Espen Erlingsen looks at trends in the sector. The North Sea is characterized by large, producing platforms with declining production. To stop the falling production in the North Sea…
Twenty years after it came online, the UK’s longest serving permanently-moored FPSO has been given a new lease on life. Elaine Maslin reports on the extent the UK’s largest offshore project in 2012. When production from the central North Sea Gryphon field came online in October 1993…
The oil & gas industry is about people. Every human being on the planet has benefited from the work this industry does. People also represent one of the industry’s biggest challenges. There is a global shortage of staff. There are not enough qualified people to fill the many open positions…
Next Generation. Faced with global staffing shortages, OE asked: “How can the industry help foster an interest in engineering among children?” Math and science are a requirement for filling the pipeline of future engineers…
Accelerated Production Systems Inc. acquired Texas Systems & Controls, Inc., strengthening Accelerated’s capabilities in the design and manufacturing of well testing, artificial lift, pumping, and process and filtration equipment for their energy-industry customers…
Emerson Process Management opened a new European education facility at the valve manufacturing center of excellence in Cernay, France, in May. A unique feature of the facility is its flow laboratory, which provides a training infrastructure for control valves and instrumentation…
In Keathley Canyon, Gulf of Mexico, a 3D seismic data set was sharply focused using transmitted energies to update velocities using long and full azimuth streamer data. Authors S. Mothi, K. Schwarz, and H. Zhu of CGG share how it was done…
Cubility’s MudCube shale shaker made a name for itself on its first commercial installation on Maersk Drilling’s Maersk Giant in the North Sea. The North Sea has long been a critical area of exploration and production within the oil and gas industry…