Det norske oljeselskap ASA has celebrated first steel cutting on both the topsides and jacket of its Ivar Aasen platform for the North Sea. Image: First steel cutting at Arbatax, Sardinia. First steel for the 14,400-ton jacket was cut at Arbatax…
Statoil is to continue its Barents Sea exploration campaign in 2014, with 5-7 new wells planned. The Norwegian oil firm is planning to test potential in the Hoop area, where OMV made the recent play-opening Wisting Central discovery…
Through its development in the gaming and defense sectors, gaming technology is being adopted by various industries, including oil and gas. Elaine Maslin reports. The gaming industry has become big business - bigger than the movie business…
Eni Norge provides this video clip of the living quarters being lifted into place at the Goliat FPSO. Lifting the modules, required the use of a crane with the capacity to lift 1.6 million kg, ENI said. The five-level living quarters modules weighed 1100 tonnes…
Angus Lugsdin, business development manager at Tritech International, outlined the value of multibeam sonar technology for real-time integrity monitoring at a technical session on structural integrity at Aberdeen’s Offshore Europe Conference in September…
Aberdeen-based subsea installation contractor Bibby Offshore has purchased two Sprint subsea inertial navigation systems from Sonardyne International Ltd. to support ROV operations carried out by its new offshore survey business division…
Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has secured a 1-year contract extension from Chevron North Sea Limited to deliver engineering and construction services to its assets in the Alba and Captain fields in the UK North Sea. Effective immediately, the…
Dana Petroleum group CEO Marcus Richards believes the oil industry is seeing a structural shift. He gave his personal views at a UK Chatham House event: I would like address the questions raised by the shift in oil demand to industrialized economies in terms of energy security…
Arnaud Breuillac has been appointed president, exploration and production at Total, effective January 1. He will report to Yves Louis Darricarrère, upstream president and member of Total’s executive committee. Yves-Louis Darricarrère was appointed president…
Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) has said production is expected to restart from the Siri platform, offshore Denmark, in Q2 2014. Production from the platform will be at reduced volumes until the Siri platform is permanently repaired…
Lundin Petroleum AB appointed Paul Atkinson as general manager for Malaysia and managing director for Lundin Petroleum's southeast Asia business. Atkinson is joining Lundin Petroleum from Talisman Energy, where he has held various senior managerial positions since 2001…
UK-based engineering firm Wood Group will form a joint venture (JV) with Germany’s Siemens to provide integrated rotating equipment services. The JV will comprise the maintenance and power solutions businesses of Wood Group GTS (excluding its Rolls Wood Group…
The European branch of the Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA Europe) has announced the finalists of its Innovation Awards ahead of its annual SPE ICoTA Well Intervention Conference. The award is presented annually to an organization that…
Expro Group says lightweight, mobile systems are needed to meet future deepwater intervention needs. Demand for deepwater subsea well intervention services continues to grow. However, to date, the focus remains on completions for new field developments…
Researchers from Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Scotland have created new software as part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) which helps pre-empt potential faults in subsea technology. Dr. Andrei Petrovski and Professor John McCall…