The Internet of Things is becoming ever more embedded in the oil psyche. Steve Hamlen reports. Mackinnon The increasing use of sensors coupled with the progress in data collection…
Offshore structures for multiple uses were investigated by Mirco Busetto, head of basic design Offshore Business Unit, Fincantieri, at this year’s Offshore Mediterranean Conference (OMC) in Ravenna, Italy. Elaine Maslin reports. A…
The UK North Sea’s extensive pile of marginal fields offer an attractive prize, if they can be economically unlocked. Steve Hamlen reports. UK marginal pools visualized. Image from the Oil & Gas Technology Centre…
Mobile offshore drilling units could be a FPU conversion alternative. Karen Boman sets out the details. InterMoor tows the ATP Innovator FPU from the Gomez field in the Gulf of Mexico.Photo from InterMoor’s Flickr…
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…
Infield Systems’ Catarina Podevyn surveys the FPSO market and discusses recent projects awards. The John Evans Atta Mills MV25 FPSO, operating at Tullow’s TEN project, offshore Ghana. Photo from MODEC…
After years of turbulence fueled by scandal and debt woes, Brazil and its oil company Petrobras detailed how they intend to get back on the right track. Melissa Sustaita reports. Fernando Coelho Filho…
Finding a way to tap the North Sea’s estimated 3.4 billion of resources currently locked up in marginal pools has become a perennial problem. Elaine Maslin looks at a past solution and ideas for today outlined at an SUT Aberdeen event earlier this year…
While UK North Sea production efficiency has made improvements since diving to a dire 60% in 2012, more can still be done, says Gordon Lawrence from Asset Performance Networks. Image from iStock…
Diamond Offshore is championing a new Floating Factory concept meant to meet future deepwater challenges, but drumming up support during the downturn may be tough. Karen Boman reports. Photo from iStock…
Cost cutting could help push more final investments decisions through this year, giving industry sight of some much-needed work. Steve Hamlen reports. Wood Mackenzie’s Malcolm Dickson. Northeast…
Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi has been talking to Libyan officials about the second phase of development of the Bahr Essalam field, in which first gas is set for next year. Sabratha. Image from Mellitah…
Statoil successfully installed the largest jacket on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) at its Johan Sverdrup project, giving the Norwegian giant the first visible sign of the field. The jacket…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for wildcat well 7435/12-1 in the Barents Sea. Map of 7435/12-1, from NPD. Well 7435/12-1 in production…
Map of North Malay basin, from Hess. Hess Corp. is ready to start production at its North Malay basin project offshore Malaysia in Q3 2017. The North Malay Basin Block PM302 is…
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