All eyes are on Mozambique as significant natural gas finds are set to turn the East African country into a major LNG player, but are oil riches on the horizon? Mozambique’s prolific Rovuma basin holds 12 offshore discoveries within a 50km radius…
This event aired on August 20, 2013 Click to AccessThe offshore oil and gas industry continues moving into deeper waters, creating challenges in operations that would be common place in shallow-water projects. New synthetic materials…
Petrobras leads subsea pumping development to overcome deepwater production problems Subsea boosting has evolved since the first subsea multiphase pump was installed, in 1994, by Shell at Draugen field in the Norwegian Sea. That pump…
The first of two horizontal subsea production wells on the Juliet field, in the UK North Sea, have been drilled and completed using Noble’s Ronald Hoope rig, partner Hansa Hydrocarbons Ltd. announced, bringing first production ever closer…
With the latest seismic and drilling technologies, the Cardamom development is expected to deliver new production from the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico to existing infrastructure. Nearly two decades after setting a world water-depth record for drilling and production…
Hydratight, launches the Quick Release Nut. This compact tool, has two moving parts, and has been used in more than 25 successful subsea projects. As extraction takes place at ever increasing depths, the need for remote activation of bolted applications has become increasingly apparent…
GE Oil and Gas will establish its new global headquarters in London. Florence will remain the global headquarters for GE Oil & Gas Turbomachinery Products & Services, a more than US $6 billion business and a key manufacturing and engineering…
MAN Diesel & Turbo won the contract to supply the engines for six Chinese LNG carriers (LNGCs). The order for the 30 × MAN 51/60DF dual-fuel engines is a significant development for both Chinese shipyards as well as the LNGC market. The…
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) completed acquisition of a 2D multi-client survey offshore Newfoundland using the industry-leading PGS GeoStreamer® acquisition technology. The 2013 program will acquire additional data of about 16,000 line-km of the Northeast Newfoundland Slope…
Aker Solutions won a contract to supply a complete Pusnes wire mooring system for a cylindrical-shaped accommodation unit being built at Cosco Nantong Shipyard in China. The equipment includes three triple wire winches, three control cabins…
Clariant opened a new R&D Laboratory for Catalysts for Chemicals and Oil & Gas industries. Located in the company’s largest manufacturing plant of Latin America, in Suzano (Brazil), the laboratory begins operations with a complete infrastructure…
Shell's Olympus tension leg platform (TLP) left Ingleside, Texas, for the Mars field in the US Gulf of Mexico earlier this week (July 13). But before the 120,000-ton facility set sail to its new home, this video from Shell captures the…
Rosneft, jointly with the RosHydroMet Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, starts the large-scale program for comprehensive studies of the Kara Sea shelf as part of Kara Sea Summer 2013 Marine Expedition. The expedition was scheduled for July 12…
BP’s Quad 204 redevelopment will be one of the largest subsea developments in the UKCS. Quad 204 is one of the world’s biggest subsea redevelopment projects, and one of the most complex engineering challenges BP and its project partners have ever undertaken…
Occidental Petroleum Corp. of Qatar (Oxy Qatar), and Qatar Petroleum signed a deal on the Phase 5 field development plan (FDP) regarding the Idd El Shargi North Dome (ISND) offshore Qatar. Both companies plan to maintain the field’s output of about 100…
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