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Statoil’s Valemon on stream

Jan 13, 2015

Statoil shows the process of getting its US$2.9 billion Valemon field on stream.  The high-pressure, high-temperature, gas and condensate development, located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, started production on 3 January…

Schnitger chief calls for early engineering analysis

Jan 13, 2015

Schnitger President Monica Schnitger urged oil and gas companies to explore and exploit the latest technologies to have successful projects at the 2014 Bentley Systems Year in Infrastructure conference. Meg Chesshyre has more.   “I’m…

Shell Brunei ups Plexus orders

Jan 06, 2015

Aberdeen-based wellhead engineering firm Plexus Holdings has received purchase orders from Brunei Shell Petroleum to supply both high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) and standard pressured wellhead systems and services for three additional exploration wells under an existing four year contract…

Egypt signs six new oil and gas agreements

Jan 12, 2015

Egypt's government has signed six new agreements for oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Suez and the Western Desert, the Oil Ministry announced 9 January.  The agreements were with Shell, Italian firm ENI, BP and Canada's Trans Globe…

Moody's - a challenging 2015 ahead for oil and gas producers

Jan 06, 2015

Since June 2014, the oil price has been on a downward spiral. The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), a key global oil price benchmark, has more than halved and fell below US$50/barrel for the first time in 5.5 years yesterday (5 January)…

EIA: Presalt oil and natural gas provide an increasing share of Brazil’s production

Jan 09, 2015

In 2013, Brazil produced 2MMb/d of crude oil and nearly 1Tcf of gross natural gas. Within these figures, the share of production from presalt resources found under thick layers of salt thousands of feet below the ocean's surface remains small but continues to increase…

Arctech Helsinki bought out by Russians

Dec 31, 2014

Arctech Helsinki Shipyard has moved into full Russian ownership after United Shipbuilding Corporation bought the other half of the company's shares from STX Finland. Finland based Arctech Helsinki Shipyard was founded in December 2010…

An extraordinarily tough year for oil co's

Jan 12, 2015

From 2011 to 2014, we observed the largest oil supply shock in history: US shale oil production was adding more than 1 MMbbl/d every year, or more than the growth of global demand for oil. OPEC faced a risk of critical reduction in market share…

Chevron supports subsea JIP

Jan 06, 2015

Chevron has become the latest major operator to join Viper Subsea’s joint industry project (JIP) to develop its subsea integrity monitoring system known as V-IR.  The project, which began in October 2013, has already attracted Shell,…

Pieter Schelte arrives in Rotterdam

Jan 08, 2015

A unique and long-awaited sight arrived at one of Europe's busiest ports today - Allseas' 382m-long, 124m-wide platform installation/decommissioning and pipelay mega-vessel Pieter Schelte. The giant €2.2billion, twin-hull vessel left…

Edison lines up first NCS well

Jan 06, 2015

Oilfield services firm AGR has been awarded a three-year well management services contract with options with Edison Norge, supporting Edison across its operating licences, including the its first operated exploration well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS)…

Russia looks to substitute technology imports

Dec 29, 2014

Russian gas giant Gapzrom is to work with state-owned RUSNANO, a nanotechnology technology commercialization outfit, to develop new technologies and help substitute imported products into Gazprom's production facilities.  The firm has also signed agreements with Russian pipe manufacturers…

Valemon comes on stream

Jan 04, 2015

The Statoil-operated, NOK 22.6 billion Valemon high-pressure, high-temperature, gas and condensate development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea started first production yesterday (3 January).  The Valemon field, containing an estimated 192 MMboe recoverable reserves…

Bridge to reliability

Jan 01, 2015

New age technologies block failures, and boost bottom line. Gregory Hale reports.   Every minute counts these days. The right decisions hinge on responding to issues before they become big…

Brynhild finally on stream

Dec 29, 2014

First oil from the delayed Brynhild field in the Norwegian North Sea has finally been achieved, a year after it was first due on stream, says operator Lundin Petroleum. The field, which started production on Christmas Day, in production license 148…

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