The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has given Statoil consent to use the Stena Don mobile drilling facility for drilling and completion of wells 35/11-B-22 and B-13 in the Fram field in the North Sea. Fram is an oil field in the northern North Sea around 20km north of Troll…
Clint Galliano and André Rand of Halliburton; and Steve Sparling and Pat Watson of Anadarko Petroleum discuss how automated, real-time measurement of fluid density and rheology can enhance drilling operations. Offshore workers…
Sometimes it’s not all about throwing the latest bells and whistles at a production facility – its best to keep it simple. Elaine Maslin looks at how an eductor has kept a gas field going. Seajacks’ Kraken working at the DPPA…
Supermajor Chevron has cut 655 upstream jobs from its Houston workforce, adding to the list of oil and gas companies that have been hit by the low oil prices. John Watson, from Chevron. “In light of the current market environment…
The Republic of Cyprus announced its third Licensing Round for offshore exploration consisting of three blocks. The areas up for grabs include Blocks 6, 8 and 10, lolcated in the Mediterranean Sea. The application deadline is 22 July…
Oil company cuts could be going too far, leading to another period of high cost inflation as the oil price returns and capacity is found to be lacking, a Norwegian industry analyst has warned. Speaking ahead of the Subsea Valley conference…
Xodus Group’s Intelligent Monitoring service is being used by Australian oil and gas company Woodside to create surveillance tools for its North West Shelf assets. Accurate monitoring of oil and gas production is an increasingly valuable tool for operators and surveillance engineers but…
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) may have made 16 new discoveries and appraised 23 oil and gas structures in 2015, but also experienced a net profit decline of 66.4% year-on-year to US$3.1 billion. Liuhua operations…
Production has finally started from Norway’s first Arctic oil field, at the Goliat floating production facility in the Barents Sea. The 180 MMbo field, the first producing oil field in the Barents Sea and the northernmost producing oilfield…
The Delek Group is moving forward to advance the Leviathan development plan with an accelerated plan for first gas to flow in 2019, as the Israeli company revealed it has already begun discussions with Israel’s government ministries to reach a solution to the stability clause…
Noble Energy says a new ruling by Israel's Supreme Court could further delay the Leviathan offshore mega-project in the Levantine Basin in the Mediterranean Sea. The Houston-based explorer said that the court affirmed Israel's natural gas regulatory framework…
Elaine Maslin takes a look at the Dan Bravo complex offshore Denmark, which, at 44 years old, has a new lease on life thanks to some serious steel reinforcement. Divers installing the conductor guide frame…
There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the North Sea as operators battle to make operating costs profitable. Yet, it’s not all bad on the UKCS. Meg Chesshyre reports. The Culzean facilities. Image from KBR…
Shell has started oil production from the third phase of its Parque das Conchas (BC-10) development, offshore Brazil, in hopes of adding up to 20,000 boe/d. The Espirito Santo FPSO. Image from SBM Offshore…
Antelope Oil Tool (AOT), a manufacturer and supplier of casing and cementation equipment, has successfully run their CentraMax RT1 centralizer in ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico, in a deviated and under-reamed wellbore. A customer faced…
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