Trelleborg’s offshore operation has been awarded a substantial order for its foam buoyancy systems, for the Shah Deniz field phase 2 development offshore Azerbaijan. Contracted by oil and gas company, BP, Trelleborg will supply a buoyancy package…
UK-based Smith Flow Control (SFC) has designed a specialist pigging panel to be installed on a floating production, storage and offloading facility (FPSO) built for the use in the Goliat field, the first oilfield to be developed in the Barents Sea…
Sweden's Sandvik and Luxembourg-headquartered Tenaris have signed a new five-year strategic alliance agreement on the exclusive joint supply of corrosion resistant alloy OCTG materials and technology to the oil and gas industry. The two…
On 17 July, senators in the Australian Parliament voted to disallow the Federal Government from continuing to issue Maritime Crew (subclass 988) visas to foreign workers for the purposes of working in Australia’s offshore oil and gas industry…
United Arab Emirates-based subsea and offshore solution firm Unique Maritime Group (UMG) has secured investment from London-based private equity investor Blue Water Energy. The new partnership will allow UMG to accelerate its growth plans through additions to its rental fleet…
Norway-based Kvaerner's Q2 earnings fell but the firm saw an increase in order intake and growth on existing projects, according to its latest results. During the second quarter, Kvaerner completed three large offshore platform…
The Energy Industries Council (EIC) announced seven companies for the shortlist for the EIC Award for Supply Chain Excellence 2014, which recognizes a member organization that has demonstrated a superior level of supply chain performance…
Figure 1: Inflatable seals. Images from Technectics Group. Inflatable sealing technology is used in a number of critical applications including offshore production, storage and offloading (FPSO)…
Gazprom, the world's largest conventional gas producer, has appointed Elena Burmistrova as Director General of its natural gas export division. Prior to her appointment, Burmistorva was Deputy Director General of Oil and Gas Products…
Drill floor operations on the Rowan Norway. Image from Xcite Energy. Work on the Bentley heavy oil field in the North Sea showed the significance of experimental data when unconventional fluids are expected to be transported through pipelines…
The PSVM project subsea layout. Images from BP. BP’s Field of the Future program has been put into action on the PSVM development offshore Angola. Elaine Maslin reports. BP’s deepwater PVSM…
Babcock's site at Rosyth. Photo from Babcock. Babcock has its eyes on growth in the offshore upstream sector, including FPSOs and small topsides, after cutting its teeth on its first major project…
New research from University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science suggests that physical conditions at the air-sea interface are a key component to improve forecast models. The study offers a new method to aid in storm intensity prediction of hurricanes…
In today’s oil and gas markets, there are many drilling situations in which an operator faces adversity. A growing difficulty to successfully and economically drill and produce wells has created a global demand for proper well optimization…
The Doo Sung rig was contracted in and brought to Shell standards to deliver the campaign. Doo Sung is Korea’s only semi- submersible drilling unit, built in 1984 by Daewoo Shipbuilding Co., and owned by KNOC…
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