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Rockwell, Cisco launch convergence training

Aug 25, 2014

Rockwell Automation and Cisco launched a training course to help information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT) professionals overcome the challenges of converging network technologies. Managing Industrial Networks with Cisco Networking Technologies (IMINS) is a hands-on…

ONS: Schlumberger launches Quanta Geo

Aug 25, 2014

Schlumberger today launched the Quanta Geo photorealistic reservoir geology service at the Offshore Northern Seas Annual Conference and Exhibition (ONS). The new service includes the industry’s first microresistivity imager that produces oriented…

Pay for Santos at Lasseter-1/ST1

Aug 25, 2014

Santos hit a gas discovery at the Lasseter-1/ST1 exploration well, offshore Western Australia.  Map of WA-274-P from Inpex The block and its surrounding areas are considered an area of high exploration potential…

SKF President, CEO Tom Johnstone to step down

Aug 25, 2014

Sweden's SKF Group announces that President and CEO Tom Johnstone has decided to step down, effective 1 January 2015. Photo at right from SKF. Leif Östling, Chairman of the Board of SKF, comments: “Under Tom’s leadership, SKF has developed into a knowledge engineering company…

McDermott awarded Indonesian fabrication contract

Aug 25, 2014

McDermott International, Inc. has been awarded a fast-track fabrication contract by  PC  Ketapang II Ltd., a subsidiary of Petronas. The contract is for the BTJT-A jacket, as part of the Bukit Tua development project in the Ketapang block off east Java…

SeaBird awarded Gulf of Guinea contract

Aug 25, 2014

SeaBird Exploration Plc has been awarded a contract for a 3D seismic survey in Gulf of Guinea, West Africa for the vessel Geo Pacific. The survey will cover a minimum of 1450sq km and will have an estimated value of approximately US$11 million…

CNOOC begins Wenchang 13-6 production

Aug 25, 2014

CNOOC Ltd. began production at its Wenchang 13-6 oilfield, offshore the Western South China Sea. The Wenchang 13-6 oilfield, located in the west of Pearl River Mouth basin has an average water depth of approximately 120m. The main…

Wood Mackenzie: Upstream investments will focus on incremental projects

Aug 25, 2014

In new analysis prepared for ONS 2014, Wood Mackenzie says the role of incremental projects in Norway is growing in importance, which account for almost half of Norway’s US$200 billion (NKr 1,250 billion) upstream development spend over the next decade…

USITC confirms OCTG dumping in US

Aug 25, 2014

On Friday, The US International Trade Commission endorsed anti-dumping duties on steel pipe imports from four Asian countries, Turkey, and Ukraine. The USITC voted on 22 August that imports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from South Korea…

ONS: Costs high on the agenda

Aug 25, 2014

Statoil’s CEO Helge Lund has continued the Norwegian industry focus on standardization, in light of rising costs, on the opening day of ONS (Offshore Northern Seas) in Stavanger today (August 25).  Referring to subsea developments specifically…

ABS to class ultra deepwater offloading unit

Aug 25, 2014

Houston-based ABS has been selected to class the Remora HiLoad dynamic positioning (DP) BR loading unit, a second generation of the HiLoad DP system that connects to and keeps conventional tankers in position during crude oil offloading from floating production installations…

No pay for Mancharee-1

Aug 25, 2014

Singapore-based KrisEnergy completed drilling on the Mancharee-1 well off the Gulf of Thailand with no significant pay zones identified. KrisEnergy says gas shows were encountered at several levels but no significant pay zones were identified…

ONS: Welltec launches WellLIT

Aug 25, 2014

Welltec, in partnership with Saudi Aramco, has produced what it it describing as the industry's first e-line tool designed to provide reliable, efficient, rigless access into laterals from the main wellbore.   WellLIT detects each sidetrack window depth and then directs unmodified…

ONS: Trelleborg shows 30k psi seal

Aug 25, 2014

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions is unveiling its new “next generation” seal – the Multi-Contact Turcon Variseal – at the ONS in Stavanger hits week. The Multi-Contact Turcon Variseal from Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has been developed to…

ONS: Golder completes Arctic base study

Aug 25, 2014

Golder Associates has completed a comprehensive social baseline study in Greenland on behalf of Maersk Oil, Cairn Energy, ConocoPhillips and Shell.  The cooperative study was commissioned as Maersk Oil, Cairn Energy, ConocoPhillips and…

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