The International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) North Sea Chapter Safety Awards celebrated its member companies for safety performance in 2012. Northern Offshore and Ensco won in the jackups category while Noble Drilling and Stena Drilling were acknowledged for semisubmersibles…
Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) selected Mobile, Alabama, as the shore base location to house its subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) equipment. “Should our SURF equipment be needed to respond to a well control incident in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico…
Sweden based Trelleborg acquired the UK company Ambler Technologies Ltd. The company develops and produces composite materials that create strictly specified buoyancy and insulation properties in applications used primarily in deep-sea environments…
When Norway first attended the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, 40 years ago, it was at the beginning of a long journey. Building on its seafaring heritage, the country has developed a strong base for oilfield technology. It’s now leading the way into new territories…
Safety is a necessary practice for all operations, and new regulations for oversight seem to be missing some key components.The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) released its Safety and Environmental Management Systems…
About 200 students from high schools in the Houston area got a glimpse at what their future in the oil and gas industry might be during the BP-sponsored STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) event at the 2013 Offshore Technology Conference…
Pemex wants to grow— but needs the technology and resources to do it. Elaine Maslin reports from Offshore Technology Conference. Mexico has ambitious plans for its offshore exploration and production sector. Carlos Morales Gil, general director of Pemex E&P…
Noble Energy announced a non-commercial hydrocarbon find at its second deepwater Gunflint appraisal well in the US Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi Canyon 992 #1, located one mile west of the original discovery well, encountered 109 ft of net pay and was drilled to a total depth of 32…
The Kursk tragedy in 2000 identified a need for a Russian submarine rescue ship after 118 sailors and officers perished when the nuclear-powered, cruise-missile submarine sank in the Barents Sea. As a response, the Russian Admiralty is constructing the Igor Belousov…
Russia’s campaign to sell its energy wares throughout the Asia Pacific region continued at several US energy conferences this spring: IHS CERAWeek (March) and LNG 17 (April). Russia reiterated that it can curb production declines and ramp…
Project management and development engineering firm EPC Offshore has signed an agreement with Total E&P UK to provide support services at its natural gas and condensate discovery in the Atlantic. Edradour, located in Block 206/4 of the UK Continental Shelf…
This is the first commercial offshore oil development in the Arctic, operated by Gazprom. Prirazlomnoje is located in the Pechora Sea, 500 nm east of Murmansk, south of Novaja Zemlja, in about 40m water depth. Prirazlomnoye field has reserves of 610MMbbl (97MMcm)…
Shtokman is one of the world’s largest offshore gas fields. Estimated resources are 3.8Tcm of gas and 37MMcm of gas condensate. The field is located in the Russian Barents Sea, 338 nm from Kirkenes and about the same distance from Murmansk…
Large areas in the Kara Sea have been licensed to a consortium of Rosneft and ExxonMobil. Extensive seismic exploration was carried out last year and will continue this summer. Contractors are Schlumberger and Western Geco using Kirkenes and GAC and Henriksen Shipping…
According to Gazprom, Gazpromkeft Sakhalin has contracted a Rumanian jackup, GSP Jupiter, for drilling at the Dolginskaya field. Both Murmanskaya and Energy Exerter have drilled wells on this field before.
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