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OTC15: GE Oil & Gas expands software portfolio

May 05, 2015

GE Oil & Gas is expanding its oil and gas business, according to a group of GE executives speaking at this week's Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston. The company is focusing more closely on its clients’ needs and is expanding…

OTC15: Tata unveils SAWL pipe milestone

May 04, 2015

Tata Steel says it has become the first company to manufacture a submerged arc welded longitudinal (SAWL) line pipe installed through reeling method in the North Sea. Manufactured at Tata Steel’s Hartlepool 42in. UOE mill, the pipe was…

NPD considers Maria PDO

May 06, 2015

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) received a plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Maria oil discovery in the Norwegian Sea. Maria. Image from Wintershall. The Maria discovery…

Sterling reasserts Ntem force majeure

Apr 23, 2015

London-based junior explorer Sterling Energy is challenging the expiration of its first renewal period on the Ntem concession offshore Cameroon. The firm declared a force majeure on the 100% owned Ntem concession in May 2014, due to its…

Total, BP report better than expected results

Apr 28, 2015

BP and Total beat analysts’ predictions by reporting better than expected results this morning, despite consistently low oil prices.  French oil major Total saw its fastest production growth in more than a decade and gains in its refining…

Drop in spending means shrinking backlogs

Apr 29, 2015

Oilfield services companies are putting a brave face on the continuing market downturn, despite some reporting shrinking order books.  Subsea 7 and Fugro reported shrinking order books in their 1Q results this morning.  Subsea 7’s…

Developing KMZ

May 01, 2015

Jerry Lee provides an overview of Mexico’s Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) heavy oilfield in the Bay of Campeche. Pemex’s Ku-S central processing installation at the Ku-Maloob-Zaap oilfield in the Bay of Campeche offshore Mexico…

Making a ‘smart’ pipe

May 01, 2015

Researchers at Norway’s SINTEF together with a consortium of industrial partners have developed technologies to enable real-time condition monitoring reports from within pipelines to be transmitted to shore. SmartPipe launched in 2006…

Offshore heavy oil economics

May 01, 2015

Jeannie Stell looks at offshore heavy oil development economics with an eye on the current low-price environment. ExxonMobil expects its 52-well Hebron development project offshore Newfoundland to bring in first oil in 2017…

Maersk Interceptor reaps rewards for Det norske

Apr 22, 2015

The first well drilled using the new build jackup giant Maersk Interceptor (pictured) have reaped successful results for operator Det norske, the firm said this morning.  The new unit, operating in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea…

KrisEnergy awards Lengo work

Apr 13, 2015

KrisEnergy awarded Singapore-based Synergy Engineering the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the Lengo gas development offshore East Java, Indonesia. Image of the Lengo platform. From KrisEnergy…

Headwinds to continue thru 2015

Apr 23, 2015

Strong performance in its subsea business has helped Technip offset “unsatisfactory” onshore and offshore revenues despite industry headwinds, the firm’s CEO Thierry Pilenko announced today. But, the chairman of France’s Technip, which recently launched a new subsea joint venture…

Pain for Petrofac on Laggan Tormore

Apr 20, 2015

London headquartered oilfield services firm Petrofac says its loss on the west of Shetland Laggan Tormore project is to reach US$360 million in 2014-2015 amid delays and industrial action.  Petrofac's work on the project, a 125km subsea…

Enhanced spill detection and SAR comes to UK

Apr 22, 2015

A consortium of three companies has joined forces to bring enhanced oil spill detection and search and rescue capability to the UK North Sea. Using technology developed in Norway, Aptomar, working with Aberdeen's Briggs Environmental Services…

Edvard Grieg module loadout

Apr 14, 2015

In this video, Lundin Petroleum shows the loading of the 16,000-tonne of steel and equipment comprised of both the main deck module and the process module for the Edvard Grieg platform onto barges, that occurred in the last days of March 2015…

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