Maintaining a modern fleet with long-term contracts while setting drilling records is Maersk Drilling’s way of doing business. Eloise Logan spoke to the firm’s chief technology officer. The Maersk Voyager drillship…
Transocean issued its May 2015 monthly fleet update summary, which includes new contracts, changes to existing contracts, and changes in estimated planned out-of-service time of 15 or more days since the 16 April 2015 fleet status report…
In June, Albania plans to offer seven offshore and onshore blocks for oil and gas exploration. Albania began preparing the bids in 2014 after a yet-inconclusive but possibly significant discovery by a venture between Shell and Petromanas in southern Albania…
Accura Group, based in Wolverhampton, and Peterborough-based Advanced Interactive Materials Science joined forces to manufacture Venturi Flow Meters, using the HIPing process for use with oil and gas production measurements. Venturi Flow…
Clariant Oil Services introduces SCALETREAT FeS, a low-dose, continuous injection iron sulfide scale inhibitor. Standard practices allow scale to form and relies on a chelating option or dissolver for removal, however, performance SCALETREAT FeS prevents scale formation in the first place…
Watch as Teekay Offshore’s first unit for maintenance and safety (UMS), the Arendal Spirit, arrives safely to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil after departing the COSCO shipyard in China. Arendal Spirit will now undergo an extensive testing…
Yang Hua has been appointed as chairman of the board and chairman of the nomination committee of CNOOC. This appointment followed the resignation of Wang Yilin from his positions at CNOOC as chairman of the board, chairman of the nomination committee and non-executive director of CNOOC…
The new Siemens offshore flagship wind turbine of the type SWT-7.0-154 has now been installed as a prototype. The prototype installed in Østerild, Denmark. Image from Siemens. The…
Spectrum entered into a cooperation agreement with Schlumberger to jointly acquire and process Spectrum's offshore Mexico Campeche-Yucatan 2D regional multi-client program. The cooperation agreement includes more than 44,000km of regional…
Australia has total of 29 offshore blocks across eight basins up for bid that the government is offering up to investors in its annual Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release. Map of the Browse basin…
Norwegian classification and verification outfit DNV GL unveiled an unmanned floating LNG concept, which it thinks could unlock the potential of remote offshore gas fields. DNV GL's Solitude concept…
Premier Oil’s high-impact Falklands Isobel Deep well has hit oil shows in a suspected high pressure formation, partner Rockhopper Exploration said this morning (19 May). But, the area will now have to be cased, delaying the drilling program…
Aging offshore production systems and infrastructures can be given extended lifecycles with today’s creative methods of remediation, standardization, and preventative techniques, say a group of engineers presenting at the recently held Offshore Technology Conference in Houston…
Ocean Rig received a one-year extension from Eni Angola S.p.A for the Poseidon drillship that will last until 2Q 2017, with total contract backlog now standing at about US$367 million. Ocean Rig also entered into a new contract for the…
FEI and Weatherford Laboratories entered into a joint agreement to offer advanced reservoir characterization services to the oil and gas industry. The two companies will work together to create new workflows that integrate Weatherford’s traditional core analysis an FEI’s digital rock imaging…
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