ExxonMobil began exploratory drilling operations in the Kara Sea’s Universitetskaya structure in the East Prinovozemelskiy area on 9 August, defying Western-imposed sanctions against Russian state-owned Rosneft. Drilling on the Universitetskaya-1 well…
Royal Dutch Shell plc has named Harry Brekelmans as projects and technology director, effective 1 October 2014. Brekelmans is currently Shell’s executive vice president operated, upstream international. He joined Shell in 1990 and has…
GE Intelligent Platforms will resell Dream Report as a report generation tool for use across their automation software portfolio of products, announced Ocean Data Systems (ODS). Dream Report already includes drivers for most GE Intelligent…
Proserv appoints two vice presidents to its senior management team. Paul Douglas has been promoted to the role of VP operations with Bruce Stuart joining Proserv as VP sales and business development for Europe and West Africa (EWA) from FMC Technologies…
As offshore platforms are automated from top to bottom, and integrators stitch together disparate systems and protocols into a smoothly-running continuum, the inevitable next step will be assimilation of the performance data with onshore management systems…
Left: Martin Wilson; Right: Dr. Mark Burton The Aberdeenshire-headquartered STATS Group opened a new intervention engineering and technical support hub and recruited two pipeline intervention services team members…
Norwegian drilling technology specialist Tomax released a video from an internal research program with recordings of the actual pressure impact from the drill-bit nozzles. The video gives an insight to a “blind-zone” that is often critical for pressure-sensitive deepwater operations.
A Depla during scale testing. Images from Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS). Dutch drag anchor specialists Vryhof Anchors have gone down under in a move to develop efficient deepwater anchor systems…
Crews ready a Samson Amsteel Blue Rope Sling for a ‘wet handshake’ operation on the Cascade Chinook Project. Photos from Samson. Synthetic rope will never fully replace steel wire rope…
GustoMSC’s sixth-generation Magellan-class drillship.Images from GustoMSC Ferdinand Magellan became the first to circumnavigate the globe with a brutal three-year journey beginning in 1519…
Shore-side command centers are the hub for offshore communications and rescue coordination efforts. Images from McMurdo Group. McMurdo Group’s Remi Julien discusses how different…
Ingrid Sølvberg, director for the Norwegian and Barents seas, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Photo from UTC. Challenges to produce new areas, like the Barents, and extend the life of more mature regions…
Rising subsea development costs have led Statoil to set a target for 20-30% cost reduction on projects. Elaine Maslin reports from the Underwater Technology Conference. Subsea – facing new realities” was the slogan for this year’s Underwater Technology Conference (UTC) in Norway…
There is no doubt networking plays a vital role in the offshore oil and gas industry right now and it will be even more important in the future. With the potential of remote management of multiple platforms from an onshore location, as well…
Internal and external rupture disks. Photos from Halliburton. Halliburton’s Antônio Mataruco…