The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) board of directors has elected Kevin McEvoy as chairman and Dave Welch as vice chairman for the upcoming 2016-2017 term. McEvoy and Welch assumed their positions at the NOIA Annual Meeting in Washington…
Nearly six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the US Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has revealed final well control regulations designed to reduce future risks of a devastating offshore oil or gas blowout…
Japan's INPEX said it is trying to confirm the facts following a news report stating that Indonesian President Joko Widodo has rejected a proposal to build a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) plant in the country's east, saying that an onshore plant would benefit its economy more…
Current oil prices does little to support exploration and expanding developments. However, keeping an eye on the future, sub-saharan African nations show promise. Western African countries, such as Nigeria, have already seen the benefits…
During the period of 5-7 January 2016, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway conducted an audit on ENI Norge's facility Goliat FPSO. The audit was conducted as a follow-up to an audit carried out in June 2015 linked to logistics on Goliat…
National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) president, Randall Luthi, issued the following statement ahead of President Obama’s budget request: “The [US] is the global leader in oil and gas production and American consumers are enjoying the lowest gasoline prices in a decade…
Cathelco’s agent in New Orleans, Green Marine and Industrial Equipment Co., has won an order to supply a ballast water treatment (BWT) system for a new offshore vessel built by Eastern Shipbuilding Group, for Harvey Gulf International Marine…
Red Marine, based in Hexham, has completed a qualification testing program on a new vent valve for FMC Technologies. The program to validated the performance of the vent valve against industry standards including ISO 10423 (API 6A). Used during workover operations…
HAWXEYE, developed by Xodus engineers as an alternative to spreadsheets, is a cloud-based web app geared to screen assets for vibration, erosion and corrosion related issues. Complex data from monitors and piping and instrumentation…
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has completed its investigation into a hydrocarbon leak on the Statoil-operated Gudrun facility in the North Sea on 18 February 2015. The PSA’s investigation has identified serious breaches to the regulations…
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) of Norway has granted Statoil consent to use the Bideford Dolphin mobile drilling facility to drill a sidetrack on the Vigdis field in production license 089. The planned start-up is early February and the activity is estimated to last 8 days…
Two elastomers developed by Trelleborg Sealing Solutions , Isolast XploRTM J9523 perfluoroelastomer (FFKM) and XploRTM V9T82 fluoroelastomer (FKM), have now met the ISO 23936 standard as well as revision three of NORSOK M-710. FFKM and FKM…
Aberdeen headquartered QTEC Energy Services and Calgary headquartered Performance Fluid Management (PFM), both companies specializing in the management of drilling fluids on drilling installations, are merging to create a new company, FOCUS…
Statoil, Gassco and ExxonMobil have received consent for manned underwater operations in 2016, from the Petroleum Saftey Authority (PSA) of Norway. The services are to be supplied by Technip and Subsea 7. Image from Statoil…
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) will launch a pilot risk-based inspection program for offshore facilities, the agency announced on 7 December. “By focusing on facilities based upon their risk factors, BSEE…