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Ormen Lange compression dropped

Apr 11, 2014

Shell and its partners on the Ormen Lange license have postponed plans for a ground-breaking compression project on the giant field, halting ongoing concept select work, citing costs and reservoir data.  Ormen Lange, Norway’s second largest field and producing since October 2007…

Giant Olympus starts-up

Feb 04, 2014

Shell announced it has begun production from the Mars B development through Olympus, its seventh, and largest, floating deepwater platform in the Gulf of Mexico.   It is the first deepwater project in the region to expand an existing oil and gas field with significant new infrastructure…

Colloquy: OE adds interactive print experience

Feb 01, 2014

Augmented reality is a new communication tool that brings the print and digital worlds closer together. Scanning a page with a smart phone or smart device reveals additional “hidden” content. Interactive print campaigns are slowly spreading into the oil & gas industry…

UTEC Geomarine conducts technical survey

Jan 24, 2014

UTEC Geomarine’s geoREACT suction anchor tooling skid performs a geotechnical investigation. Watch the video to see the system at work, and find the full article where UTEC’s Jim Edmunds explains how the company’s geoROV tool can assist…

Shell picks Prelude power systems

Jan 17, 2014

Emerson Network Power has been selected as the main uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems provider for Shell’s Prelude floating LNG project. Prelude is the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project, currently under construction in Korea…

Renowned energy expert Economides dies

Dec 03, 2013

Renowned energy expert Prof. Michael J. Economides suffered a fatal heart attack this past weekend on an international flight from Madrid to Chile. He was 64. Economides was a professor at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of…

Isometric sampling: The next milestone in integrated 3D marine seismic

Nov 07, 2013

After a decade of R&D spanning the globe, a new class of marine seismic technology has now been commercially deployed. Nina Rach spoke with Chris Cunnell of Schlumberger. In an ideal world, a seismic survey would have a grid of sensors across the full area of interest…

OE @OE hosts seminars

Oct 18, 2013

As part of SPE Offshore Europe 2013 ExxonMobil Fuels & Lubricants and Caterpillar Marine & Petroleum Division (CAT) joined forces for an interactive breakfast seminar, hosted by Offshore Engineer’s Paul Hutton. Maintenance and engineering…

Growing the Caspian’s small rig market

Oct 12, 2013

The Caspian Sea is a land-locked interior basin with established oil and gas production that has seen increasing activity since the bordering nations gained independence from the former USSR in the late 1990s. Five nations surround the sea: Russia…

OE13: Subsea power grid for 2018

Sep 04, 2013

Siemens is hoping to have a complete subsea power grid installed on the seabed by 2018, according to its head of subsea power solutions. The division has been formed by Siemen’s acquisition of Bennex from Subsea Technology Group in 2011…

The Quest for Oil goes online

Aug 01, 2013

Maersk Oil launched the web-only video game Quest for Oil early this summer with the aim of making the oil and gas industry more accessible. OE discusses the strategy behind the game with CEO Jakob Thomasen. Maersk Oil launched the video game…

Evolution of a Fleet

May 23, 2013

Bourbon took delivery of the third vessel in its planned 10-vessel inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR) fleet. The vessel, Bourbon Evolution 803, will operate in multi-service vessel (MSV) mode for subsea system service, off Malaysia…

OE offers asset management Q&A

Apr 24, 2013

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…

Barents and Jan Mayen resources higher

Feb 27, 2013

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s (NPD’s) mapping of the southeastern Barents Sea and the area surrounding Jan Mayen will result in an approximate increase of 15% in the estimates of undiscovered resources on the Norwegian shelf.This…

After Stuxnet

Jan 30, 2013

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…

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