Trelleborg Sealing Solutions is launching a new online resource for engineers at an international conference next month as part of its “commitment” to the oil and gas industry. The website – ‘oilandgas-seals.com’ provides a comprehensive…
atg UV Technology and Aberdeen-based subsea blowout preventer controls specialists Raisepower have designed a treatment solution that combined UV treatment and filtration to prove the effectiveness of UV disinfection in treating hydraulic fluids used for subsea BOP operation…
The Yolla-6 development well at the BassGas project offshore Australia has been successfully tied-in to export facilities on the Yolla platform and production from that well has commenced, according to partner AWE Ltd. Image from Origin…
Oil major Shell today said the oil price downturn could last for several years, as it revealed 6500 expected staff and contractor reductions in 2015, as well as further capital and operational spending cuts. “Operating costs are expected to fall by over $4 billion…
Global upstream oil and gas deal activity, including capital markets and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), totaled US$19.3 billion from 125 transactions in June 2015, marking a $4.3 billion decrease in value from the $23.6 billion across 119 deals posted in May 2015…
While at first the oil price seemed to spur a rash of big M&A deals in 2014 and early 2015, analysts at GlobalData and IHS say the market could slow if the oil price doesn’t increase. Jeannie Stell reports. Image from Baker Hughes…
Despite over 37 billion bbl remaining in proven reserves, oil production in Nigeria is forecast to falter due to underinvestment, with the country’s oil and gas sector in desperate need of reforms and transparency to reverse this trend, according…
China’s national oil companies, Sinopec and CNOOC, want more interests in Brazil’s oil and gas assets, reports Seeking Alpha. The two companies bought into Brazil’s giant deepwater oilfields two years ago, and now seek to increase their holdings as Petrobras continues to sell assets…
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Dolphin Drilling selected learning technologies provider Atlas Knowledge to deliver a new system to manage the competence and training of its workforce in the UK. The contract will employ Atlas to oversee the installation and development…
Norway-based geoscience firm TGS has agreed to buy seismic firm Polarcus' multiclient library, excluding Australia, for US$ 27.5 million and future share on library late sales. The move was described as enabling Polarcus to 'navigate the current challenging market environment…
AGR released new functionality for its bespoke well data software, iQx that will improve the analysis of spatial well data by using data collected from more than 6000 wells drilled on the Norwegian continental shelf. The new GEO module is aimed at geologists and petroleum engineers…
As part of an unusual mortality event investigation, a team of scientists has discovered that dead bottlenose dolphins stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico since the start of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have lung and adrenal lesions…
Wellesley Petroleum Holdings, a new exploration company focused exclusively on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), announced that Chris Elliott has been appointed as CEO. Elliott’s last role was exploration manager UK and Norway for Cairn Energy…
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) commenced production at the Dongfang1-1 gas field Phase I adjustment project ahead of schedule, in the South China Sea. Image from CNOOC. The…