UK plate and specialty metals supplier Murray Metals (MM) has bought Alphastrut, giving it a foothold in the offshore oil an dgas industry. Alphastrut offers an aluminium support and cable containment system which MM says is more than…
The first shipment from the PNG LNG project has left Papua New Guinea carrying a cargo bound for Japan for Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc. “This announcement is a historic moment for Papua New Guinea (PNG),” ExxonMobil PNG Limited Managing Director Peter Graham said…
The Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association’s European Chapter (ICoTA) will examine the role of wireless communication technology and its benefits in well intervention at its next lunch and learn session on 20 May. The presentation,…
Petrobras announced today that it has confirmed the Sagitario well discovery (formally 1-SPS-98 / 1-BRSA-1063 -SPS) initially announced 25 February 2013 while in the drilling phase. Located in the ultra-deepwater presalt area of the Santos basin…
Alimak Hek Group AB is buying the offshore operations of Heis-Tek, a Norwegian specialized traction elevator company, focused on tailored vertical access solutions to the oil and gas industry. “This acquisition will allow us to become…
Emerson Process Management has today announced the successful first deployment of its Roxar Downhole Wireless PT Sensor System. The new instrument has been deployed as part of the completion on Statoil’s Skuld field in the Norwegian North Sea…
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates US total crude oil production averaged 8.3MM bbl/d in April—making it the highest monthly average production since March 1988. US total crude oil production, which averaged 7.4MM bbl/d in 2013…
Craig International Supplies (CIS) has been awarded new contracts with Shell which will almost double the turnover of its business. The contracts will increase the international reach and buying power of the procurement division of Scottish family-owned energy services and shipping firm…
GE Oil & Gas announced today a technology collaboration with Mexico Institute of Petroleum (IMP) and Mexico state-owned company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Pemex sponsors the agreement, which GE Oil & Gas said would “initially [research]…
UK-based subsea services firm Reef Subsea is to split up into three independent companies after its January buyout by Norwegian private equity outfit Hitecvision. The three new companies will be Reef Subsea, X-Subsea, and Technocean Subsea…
Offshore grouting contractor FoundOcean has secured two contracts on the Solan oil field development west of the Shetland in the North Sea. The contracts, with Heerema Marine Contractors and Bibby Offshore,& cover structural grouting on the 8000-tonne Solan platform jacket and its 300…
A third well is now producing in the Sapinhoá field, Petrobras announced, in keeping with the target date given when its preceding well was brought onstream in February. Well 7-SPH-04-SPS, which lays in 2120m of water on Block BM-S-9 of the Santos basin presalt region…
Wood Group has acquired Cape Software, a Texas provider of simulation software and services for operator training and logic validation for SCADA and DCS industrial control systems used by the oil and gas and other process-based industries…
Noble Energy and EMAS have signed a letter of agreement (LOA) for installation work on Noble's Gunflint project in the US Gulf of Mexico. The agreement calls for EMAS’ Subsea Services division, EMAS AMC, to perform the offshore installation of pipelines…
MAN compressor installed offshore MAN Diesel & Turbo in Zurich was awarded a contract to deliver a HOFIM (high-speed, oil-free, integrated motor) compressor to Det norske oljeselskap ASA. It is MAN’s first hermetically-sealed compressor to be installed on an offshore production platform…
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