An initiative to help protect the American oil and gas industry from cyber attacks has been launched by Lloyds Register Energy at this year’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston. Lloyds Register Energy says control systems…
GE Oil & Gas is expanding its oil and gas business, according to a group of GE executives speaking at this week's Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston. The company is focusing more closely on its clients’ needs and is expanding…
At the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, GE Marine is demonstrating its latest innovation in marine digital technologies with the launch of SeaStream Insight. The solution is powered by GE’s renowned Predix platform, currently saving millions of dollars for its customers…
Aspen Technology, Inc. announced the general availability of aspenONE Engineering and aspenONEManufacturing and Supply Chain Version 8.8 software. Developed for firms in the oil, gas, chemicals, engineering and construction and other process industries…
UK-based compliance, integrity and risk consultancy firm Lloyd’s Register Energy is forming a strategic alliance with MaxGrip. The alliance, announced during this week's Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, will see the development…
Italian engineering companies could offer competitive engineering, procurement and construction services in the Mediterranean Sea, should activity pick up, but West Africa is currently the hot spot for contracts. Litchendjili…
Protecting, inspecting and repairing pipelines in the shallow waters of the Middle East isn’t as easy as it sounds. Elaine Maslin reports. McDermott’s DP2 offshore construction support vessel Thedbaud Sea in the Middle East…
For Shell, exploration isn’t just about the seismic, it’s about joining up the petabytes’ worth of seismic dots between its global team of experts. Meg Chesshyre reports. Subsurface imaging, but…
Halliburton Energy Services’ Harvey J. Fitzpatrick, Jr. shows how wellbore stimulation fluids can increase production. Fig. 1—Example of acid-etching properties of SandStim service. The service…
Denise Smiles, of Optical Metrology Services Ltd (OMS), discusses how to correct internal HiLo misalignment between butted pipes. OMS’ automatic pipe end dimensioning tool. Images from OMS. Deepwater…
Often I am asked – what is classification? We get this question a good bit in the offshore industry where the role of class might not be as pronounced as it is in the marine industry. Watson. From ABS…
Efficiency, cost-effectiveness and optimized analyses are crucial in upstream asset development. OE spoke with Paradigm’s Indy Chakrabarti to chart the pathway to success. Jeannie Stell reports. Indy Chakrabarti…
Tentec released its new range of topside bolt tensioning tools, Force10. The Force10 range of topside bolt tensioning tools consist of 10 base tools covering bolt sizes from 3/4in to 4in (M20 to M100) and has been designed to fit on to most ANSI B16…
Asset integrity management specialist, XPD8 Solutions, secured a £375,000 contract for work in West Africa with Tullow Oil. Over six-months, the Aberdeen-headquartered firm will migrate Tullow Oil’s existing computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to the Maximo software package…
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies announced the release of version 1.7 of the LedaFlow transient multiphase flow simulator. LedaFlow 1.7 introduces major functionality changes including non-Newtonian fluids, wax appearance temperature…