New lightweight, modular subsea technologies could reduce not just lead times for equipment delivery but lower the total cost of ownership for the full life of the field.Baker Hughes, a GE company, revealed its thinking on subsea developments during the launch event in Houston earlier this week…
i-Tech Services said it has secured its first inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) contract for the vessel MMA Pinnacle with a Malaysia-based integrated oil and gas services company, following the signing of a long-term vessel charter agreement in the Asia Pacific region earlier this year…
Offshore oil services firm Subsea 7 has announced the award of a sizeable contract by Fieldwood Energy to Subsea Integration Alliance, a global partnership between Subsea 7 and OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company.The award is for the deepwater…
Aberdeen's Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) has launched two calls for ideas relating to digital and decommissioning, with £2 million available to successful applicants. The OGTC says that machine learning techniques could help extend the life of oil and gas fields…
Drilling operations have started on the Tambar development project in the producing Tambar field offshore Norway, says partner Faroe Petroleum. The Tambar and Tambar East Unit fields are satellite fields, about 16km southeast of the Ula field in the Norwegian North Sea…
Reliance Industries has awarded OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company, an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for supply of the subsea production system for the R Cluster (Block KG-D6) Project, offshore the east coast of India…
TAQA has awarded OneSubsea an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract for a subsea multiphase boosting system for the Otter field in the UK North Sea. Through the EPCIC contract, Schlumberger’s…
Italian offshore contractor Saipem has offered a glimpse of its remote operated vehicle (ROV)/ autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) hybrid HyDrone. The technology, developed by Saipem's Sonsub business, has been developed to be part of…
Centrica is investing £35 million in the North Sea Chestnut field, drilling a new production well which aims to more than treble production. The well is expected to also extend the life of the field, which otherwise would have been shut in later this year…
Schlumberger has introduced the Lift IQ production life cycle management service, which offers monitoring, diagnostics and optimization of artificial lift systems in real time. This new service securely collects, transmits, evaluates and…
McDermott will digitize and standardize its processes, simplifying work processes into a single integrated, software-agnostic engineering platform. Image from McDermott. McDermott…
BP and EnQuest signed a US$85 million deal that will see EnQuest take over operatorship and 25% stake in the Magnus oil field in the North Sea, with a future option to take full ownership of the field. Image from EnQuest…
Decommissioning offshore structures isn’t going away any time soon and research points to a US$210 billion bill for this activity from 2020-2040 worldwide. John Bradbury looks at the market. Allseas’…
Norway-based ExproSoft has developed WellMaster Simulator, a cloud-based well life simulator for new and mature fields. The solution is designed to help oil and gas operators predict well interventions, downtime, and operating expenses (OPEX)…
In this video, Chevron shows the process it took for its Alder HPHT field to reach first gas, 41 years after in was discovered. Chevron’s high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) gas condensate Alder field in the Central North Sea started production this week…
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