AFGlobal sheds light on its launch of a key RGH component for deepwater MPD operations. For deepwater, subsea applications, the Active Control Device offers a significant departure from conventional RCDs with a purpose-built…
Four wave energy technology developers are to be awarded a total of US$3.66 million (£2.84 million) by Wave Energy Scotland (WES) after successfully competing to join stage two of an innovative technology development program. The funding will support further design…
Tendeka, a global provider of completions systems and services for the upstream oil and gas industry based in Aberdeen, has secured a two-year contract with a Malaysian operator for the provision of Tendeka’s FloSure Elite Sand Screens with…
Jerry Lee looks into Arctic-rated safety equipment that seeks to make it eaiser to comply with regulations around the globe. Arctic capping stack with remote BOP control and intervention subsea accumulator module…
Russia's Gazprom has made a discovery on the Kirinsky block in the Sea of Okhotsk. The firm was drilling an exploration and appraisal well on the Yuzhno-Lunskaya structure within the Sakhalin III project. As a result, a substantial gas and condensate inflow was reported…
Statoil is applying new concepts and new thinking to the Johan Castberg development on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. It’s a DC fiber optic future, Elaine Maslin reports. Transocean’s Polar Pioneer semisub drilled the Skrugard prospect in 2011…
Tidal energy is moving up a gear, with arrays becoming real and a supply chain being put to the test. But, there’s still more to do. Elaine Maslin reports. An AR1500 generator and gearbox being assembled at OREC…
The wave energy sector has always provided something of a more mixed bag of concepts than the tidal sector. Elaine Maslin looks at some of them. The Perth wave energy project. Photo from Carnegie Wave Energy…
An investigation of a well control incident at Visund A that halted production at the field and evacuated workers in March has been completed by Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), revealing several regulation breaches at the Statoil-operated North Sea platform…
Completions systems and services provide Tendeka has won a four-year contract with Wintershall Norge with a further four-year extension option. The company has been selected to supply sand screens for wells in the Maria, Brage, Skarfjell…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has begun an investigation of a well control incident on the Visund field on 17 March 2016 that caused Statoil to put a halt to production and evacuate workers in the North Sea. Visund…
AICDs are enabling production engineers to manage reservoir uncertainty along the well with better flow assurance and greater oil recovery says Tendeka's Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail. AICD in housing…
WFS Technologies (WFS), a provider of underwater wireless instrumentation and control solutions, has announced the launch of Seatooth PipeLogger Thermal Insulation (TI). Designed to deliver a step reduction in the cost of monitoring process…
Tracerco landed a contract to provide smart tracer technology for flow measurement of six new wells in Statoil’s Maureen reservoir of the Mariner field in the UK North Sea. Ilustration from Statoil…
Gregory Hale looks at how automation capabilities are removing guess work and allowing for real-time decision-making. The architecture for an automated rig allows for portable, machine independent…
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