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Premier FD becomes CEO

Jun 25, 2014

Tony Durrant has been appointed CEO of UK-based exploration and production firm Premier Oil, with immediate effect. Durrant replaces Simon Lockett (pictured), who announced his plans to resign from Premier Oil in February this year. Read…

Irish oil implications 'immense'

Jun 25, 2014

One successful oil discovery in Ireland’s offshore Porcupine basin could supply all of Ireland’s oil demand, if not more, according to exploration minnow Petrel Resources.  The Dublin-based firm is hoping to take part in drilling in the…

Swire Oilfield Services announces Southeast Asia expansion

Jun 24, 2014

Swire Oilfield Services, a global supplier of cargo carrying solutions, modular systems, offshore aviation services and fluid management has announced plans to further invest in Southeast Asia with the development of three new operational…

PGS to shoot Australian seismic

Jun 24, 2014

PGS announced plans for Springboard, a new multiclient 3D program in the Ceduna sub-basin offshore south Australia using the company's GeoStreamer technology. Acquisition is planned to start in late 2014 on this program, which will cover some 8000sq km of broadband GeoStreamer data…

KrisEnergy contracts jackup for Thai campaign

Jun 24, 2014

KrisEnergy Ltd. an independent upstream oil and gas company, announced it has contracted the Key Gibraltar jack-up rig for development, appraisal and exploration drilling in two licenses in the Gulf of Thailand. The contract with Shelf Drilling (Southeast Asia) Limited…

Raytheon Anschütz delivers 15,000th Standard 22 Gyro Compass

Jun 24, 2014

Raytheon Anschütz, a German-based navigation system supplier, announced it delivered its 15,000th Standard 22 Gyro Compass in June 2014. The jubilee compass will replace a 30 year old Anschütz Standard 4 Gyro Compass onboard the superyacht Esmeralda…

BATS Wireless offers broadband communications solution for FPSOs

Jun 24, 2014

BATS Wireless, a provider of wireless stabilization, optimization, and tracking systems, announced the development of enhanced technology focused on solving connectivity problems that frequently plague deep and ultra-deepwater FPSO, FSO and drillship operations…

Gall Thomson opens UK tech center

Jun 24, 2014

Gall Thomson announced it has opened a state-of-the-art technology center in the UK. The center, which is part of the company’s ongoing growth strategy, will be used for the design, production, refurbishment and testing of marine breakaway couplings…

Deploying EOR solutions

Jun 24, 2014

BP provides this video discussing its designer-water and designer-gas enhanced oil recovery (EOR) solutions and how they have been applied to BP's various developments including Clair Ridge and Ula. You can read more about BP's LoSal technology in the June 2014 issue of OE.

FES inks Western Isles project

Jun 24, 2014

UK oil and gas engineering firm, FES International, has secured a US$2.5million contract to supply its automated Diverless Bend Stiffener Connector (DBSC) to NOV Flexibles, for use by Subsea 7 on the Western Isles Development (WID) project in the northern North Sea area…

Bowleven bags partners for Etinde

Jun 24, 2014

UK-based, Africa-focused explorer Bowleven has agreed to sell a 50% stake in the Etinde Permit, offshore Cameroon, to LUKOIL and NewAge, for about US$250 million, under a conditional agreement.  LUKOIL is to acquire a 37.5% interest in the Etinde Permit…

Emerson opens Stavanger flowloop

Jun 24, 2014

Emerson Process Management has opened a flow loop facility for Roxar technologies in Stavanger. The new facility will increase production capacity and drive future developments in multiphase meters, enabling oil and gas operators to access…

Maersk picks Technip for Danish project

Jun 24, 2014

Technip has been awarded two contracts by Maersk Oil for the Valdemar and Roar gas lift project as well as the Rolf replacement pipeline project, on the Danish Continental Shelf, 250km offshore Esbjerg, Denmark. The scope of work will…

Technologies allow Benin field to produce oil for first time in over a decade

Jun 24, 2014

Produced water was one of the reasons for Benin’s only offshore field, Sèmè, being shut in after 14 years of production. Vince Buchanan explains how technology is helping the field return to production. The…

Low-salt solution

Jun 24, 2014

One of Clair Ridge's jackets is shown on an installation barge in 2013. Photo from BP. BP applied a “less is more” approach to enhanced oil recovery, and, in doing so, won a Distinguished Achievement…

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