A Brazilian combo is hoping to make evaluating cement through tubing less of a headache with its new software. Samuel Tocalino (left) and Gustavo Longhin. Trying to assess the…
Fugro has provided a spectrum of services to BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) to allow safe drilling and completion of five subsea wells in an area of strong currents. The services include wellhead motion (fatigue) monitoring, metocean measurements and positioning services…
A RIP Industrial Services worker died over the weekend, after falling 12m from a Petrobras platform, offshore Brazil. According to the Sindipetro-NF workers’ union, Victor Geraldo Brito, 29, fell from the Cherne-2 platform (PCH-2), from 12m high and did not survive the impact…
The Cidade de Saquarema floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) unit is sailing to the Lula field offshore Brazil for its 20-year contract, following its recent conversion at the BRASA shipyard. Cidade de Saquarema departs from BRASA shipyard…
In this video, BP shows the delivery of its five subsea trees required for the Juniper project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The subsea trees, which weigh 76-tonne each, were delivered on using an Antonov 124 cargo aircraft. The trees were built with materials from Singapore…
Brazil's interim president, Michel Temer, has named a new CEO for the country's national oil company Petrobras. Petrobras announced today that it was informed Thursday, 19 May, of the decision to appoint Pedro Parente, an engineer, to Petrobras' board and to the position of CEO…
Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) granted a 27-year extension to Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) for two concession contracts in the Campos basin, offshore Brazil that will lead to the drilling of 10 new wells. Image from Petrobras…
CGG become one of the few firms to be registered by Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) as an independent third party qualified to audit and certify Mexico’s reserves, either for oil and gas operators or directly for the CNH. CGG…
The Libra consortium has invited Airborne Oil & Gas to perform a failure mode, effect and criticality assessment (FMECA) for a TCP (thermoplastic composite pipe) Riser that could be used at the giant Libra field offshore Brazil. The request…
Brazil’s interim president Michel Temer has appointed Fernando Bezerra Filho as the country’s new mines and energy minister amid a political battle that suspended Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff from office yesterday (12 May). Image of Filho…
TGS has acquired approximately 141,000km, or 75%, of the planned 186,000km 2D seismic project, Gigante. Gigante covers the entire offshore sector of Mexico and ties into TGS' regional 2D seismic grid covering the entire US Gulf of Mexico…
US-based explorer Kosmos Energy has agreed to farm-out a one third stake in its Block 42 contract area offshore Suriname to Hess. In return, Hess will fully fund the cost of a 6500sq km 3D seismic survey, expected to start in Q3 this year…
Tata has marked an industry first, with its pipeline becoming the first to be laid at more than 3000ft water depth in the Mexican Gulf of Mexico. The ca.140km of 457mm (18in) outer diameter x 28.6mm WT API 5L PSL2 X65MO line pipe was…
Saipem has celebrated setting new milestones in the oil service industry with the installation of two gas export free standing hybrid risers (FSHR), 20in and 19in respectively, in the Pre-Salt area of Santos Basin about 300km from the Brazilian shoreline…
Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum has successfully drilled its first horizontal deepwater well offshore the Ivory Coast. The firm encountered 100ft net of true vertical thickness (TVT) pay on the Paon-5A well using Bolette Dolphin drillship…
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