Dutch spoolable thermoplastic composite pipe systems firm Airborne Oil & Gas and Dallas-based Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, have signed a strategic supply agreement for the development and supply of composite materials for deepwater pipe systems…
Iran, India and Oman are preparing to begin official negotiations for delivery of the Iranian natural gas to the Indian market through a deepwater pipeline. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid…
The European outlook for the offshore pipe industry in 2014 is positive, according to a recent report conducted by Tata Steel. The study points to high energy demand from Africa, Asia and BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations…
Stone Energy Corp. hit oil at its deepwater Cardona (MC 29 #4) well at Mississippi Canyon 29 in the US Gulf of Mexico, the company announced on 24 Feb 2014. Drilling operations are underway using the ENSCO 8502 drilling rig, which Stone Energy contracted last April…
Papua New Guinea is home to the Esso Highlands Ltd.- operated PNG LNG project, the first of its kind in the country’s history. Sarah Parker Musarra provides an update and examines the milestone project’s offshore pipeline. Occupying a small corner of Southeast Asia…
Charles Wemyss discusses positive displacement meters and how they can benefit flow measurement in chemical injection applications. VFF meter. Images: Litre Meter Keeping up with the global…
Dresser-Rand Group recently performed a noise test for the largest pipe resonator array ever produced. The test, performed on a 30-in. pipe, was intended to validate and confirm the estimated noise attenuation on a compressor operated by Norwegian-based Statoil…
South Stream awarded a contract for three pipe mills to supply over 75,000 steel pipes for the first line of the South Stream Offshore Pipeline. Europipe from Germany will supply 50% of the pipes, Russia's OMK and Izhora Pipe Mill will supply 35% and 15%…
FMC Technologies awarded JDR a contract to design and supply umbilicals and reelers for an intervention workover control system (IWOCS) for Total's giant Egina field development, West Africa. JDR will provide 20km of JDR IWOCs umbilicals…
The Shah Deniz gas field consortium in Azerbaijan will proceed with stage 2 development of the Caspian Sea field, opening its sources to Europe. Stage 2 includes offshore drilling and completion of 26 subsea wells, the construction of two bridge-linked platforms…
The longest pig run was performed along the Nord Stream pipeline between Germany and Russia last year. Elaine Maslin found out more. At 1224km (759mi.) long, the Nord Stream’s twin offshore pipeline gas transportation sys- tem from Russia to Germany…
Topsides corrosion and short life span issues, particularly in tropical waters, are being tackled with a super-duplex steel. Joseph Osta explains. Growing global demand for energy is driving oil and gas companies towards deeper wells in more exposed locations…
US shale oil production will not be a threat to deepwater oil and gas development, an analyst has said today. Steven Kopits, working with Douglas-Westwood in New York, says many investment banks and government agencies have forecast that…
A new acoustic positioning technique to improve the quality and accuracy of pipeline touchdown monitoring has been successfully utilized by leading project management, engineering and construction company Technip. The company has installed…
OptaSense, a specialist in distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), is developing the world’s first fully marinised and qualified DAS system in a joint program with Shell. The OptaSense Subsea-DAS system, which will be deployed in water depths of up to 10…