GE Oil & Gas is introducing a series of offshore solutions at this week's Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, aimed at increasing efficiencies and reducing costs. These include the SeaPrime I Subsea BOP Control System, which has…
Diamond Offshore Drilling and GE Oil & Gas entered into the offshore drilling industry's first-of-its-kind contractual service agreement (CSA) that transfers full accountability for blowout preventer (BOP) performance to GE Oil & Gas. In this Pressure Control by the Hour model…
Jerry Lee looks at how to deal with deepwater drilling riser operation in high currents, typhoons and cold fronts offshore Japan. The drilling riser deployment from the Chikyu drillship. Image from Stress Engineering Services…
Daisy Data Displays, Inc. released an explosion-proof ruggedized workstation specific to oil exploration applications. The Series 4520Cx, an IECEx Zone 2, UL Division 2 certified workstation for oil and gas applications…
Husky Oil Operations Ltd. pulled the plug on its drilling contract with Seadrill for the West Mira vessel one week after Seadrill canceled the newbuild’s order with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI). West Mira illustration…
Stephen Whitfield examines well control standards in the US and Europe. Since the Macondo blowout devastated the Gulf of Mexico in the spring of 2010, governments and industry organizations around the world have recognized the need to…
Maersk Drilling has ordered the offshore oil and gas industry’s first 20,000-psi (20-ksi) rated deepwater blowout preventer (BOP) stack and riser systems. The four BOPs and two risers, ordered from GE Oil and Gas, will be used in the Project 20K agreement with BP…
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) will be issuing new requirements for the blowout preventers (BOP) by the end of the year, according to agency director Brian M. Salerno. BOPs are large, high-pressure valves used…
The Obama administration selected Coast Guard veteran Brian Salerno as director of the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). Salerno previously served as a former Vice Admiral in the US Coast Guard. He will take over the position from James Watson…
Determining accumulator best suited for an application depends on the environment in which it will operate, reliability, and maintenance cost. Accumulators are energy storage devices that have a variety of applications. Most notably, they can be used to store potential energy…
Seadrill Ltd has entered into turnkey contracts to build four new ultra-deepwater drillships. Two drillships will be built at the DSME yard and the other two at the Samsung yard, in South Korea. The project value price is estimated to be…
Oceaneering to provide 3 BOP control systems Multiplex Control Pod (Image: Oceaneering) Oceaneering International, Inc. secured contracts with a subsidiary of Transocean Ltd. to provide three subsea blowout preventer (BOP) control systems…
Class society Lloyd's Register is working with leading owners and operators from the oil & gas sector to improve current methods of monitoring the performance of blowout preventers. Two risk management specialists within the Lloyd's Register Group…
The Macondo incident pushed oil spill response to the top of the environmental agenda. A recent contest let some innovative companies demonstrate spill response equipment – and for one of the event's technical advisors, Shell, to reassure the public that it intends to operate safely in Alaska…
The US Coast Guard in April released a report on its investigation into BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster, just weeks after DNV delivered the results of its forensic examination of the Macondo blowout preventer. Both will inform the Joint Investigation Team's final report…
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