Turkey began drilling at a second borehole in a Black Sea natural gas field where it made its largest-ever discovery earlier this year, Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Thursday.In one of the world’s biggest finds this year, Turkey said…
'We are doing something amazing in Baker Hughes,” said Alex Seinuah, the leader of Baker Hughes’ Growth Initiatives Hub. “I call the hub a start-up business. Within the hub we look at disruptive technologies and services that we believe will deliver value to our customers…
Turkey has raised the estimated reserves in a gas field off its Black Sea coast to 405 billion cubic meters after finding an additional 85 billion cubic meters, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.Erdogan said in August the field contained 320 billion cubic meters of gas…
UK-based Hurricane Energy announced that testing has confirmed oil in its Warwick West well, West of Shetland.Warwick West ( 204/30b-4) was spudded using the Transocean Leader semi-submersible rig on September 24 and was drilled to a total depth of 1…
Production optimization specialist Enpro Subsea said it has recently completed another two subsea hydraulic intervention campaigns for two operators in West Africa. Operations were conducted from a single multi-services support vessel, which was mobilized out of Takoradi in Ghana…
Flow measurement research and development (R&D) specialist TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory announced it has opened a £16 million ($20.5 million) Advanced Multiphase Facility (AMF), which aims to help global oil and gas operators to ensure production remains economically viable…
Imagine a kind of app store for subsea xmas trees; a plug-in platform into which a myriad of functionality can be added and changed to suit. It’s a concept being pitched by UK subsea technology firm Enpro, except it’s calling it a “process USB” port…
In the oil and gas industry, cold, hard data greatly informs an upstream operator when it looks to predict the future direction of the market and chart the course of its business strategy.A substantial rise in the price of oil might mean previously shelved…
Aberdeen based technology and engineering company XL Group announced on Monday it has acquired Artisan Measurement & Control Limited (AMC) in a move to add expertise, products and services in calibration, measurement, tanker loading, blending…
DNV GL is now starting phase II of a Joint Industry Project (JIP) on single phase flow meters in phase-contaminated oil flow. Phase II of this JIP will focus on the influence of the oil fluid properties. This will involve testing different single…
Accurate monitoring of oil and gas production is an increasingly valuable tool for operators and surveillance engineers but, until recently, visibility of data has been almost exclusively available to on-site operators. For those involved in remote surveillance and decision support…
Changing production regimes over the life of a field can prove to be a flow measurement challenge. NEL's Neil Bowman looks at the challenges. A turbine meter. Image from NEL. As fields mature…
NEL’s Damian Krakowiak examines the potential of virtual flow metering technology and how better testing could enable its adoption. Validation needed. Photo from NEL. With the…
Karen Boman charts Chevron’s success at its large Jack/St. Malo development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, a project that was sanctioned just prior to the downturn. McDermott’s North Ocean 102 at work…
Michael Reader-Harris, of NEL, outlines the risk that absent multiphase flow measurement standards pose to industry. Michael Reader-Harris While accurately measuring a complex mixture of oil…