The rapid expansion of oil and gas telecommunications systems in order to facilitate the development digital oilfields in increasingly remote locations, enhance safety, and maximize data use, was the theme of a conference on oil and gas telecommunications organized by SMi Group in London…
The fifth biennial Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Russian Oil and Gas (ROG) Exploration and Production Technical Conference and Exhibition is set to focus on sustaining production levels by challenging the limits with technology. This year’s conference…
Shell’s Brazilian subsidiary, Shell Brasil Petroleo Ltda., will sell 20% participating interest in concession BM-ES-23, offshore Brazil, to Thailand’s PTTEP. BM-ES-23 is in the deepwater Espirito Santo basin, covering approximately 550sq km…
Aberdeen-based Adept Solutions secured three contracts worth a total of US$2.4 million in West Africa. With the three contracts, Adept will implement its hydrocarbon accounting system, Axis, as part of projects on behalf of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Co…
Russian oil exploration giant Rosneft has said it and partner ExxonMobil have made an oil discovery on the Universitetskaya-1 well in the Arctic, despite US and European Union sanctions. Rosneft said the well, in the East-Prinovozemelskiy-1 license in the Kara Sea…
Cayman Islands’ registered Lekoil has upgraded the 2C reserves estimate on the Otakikpo marginal field offshore Nigeria by 45%. Otakikpo is in oil mining lease (OML) 11, in a swamp area, offshore Nigeria, adjacent to shoreline in the eastern part of the Niger Delta…
Wood Group Intetech (WG Intetech) has appointed Ogo Ikenwilo to the role of regional well integrity manager – North Sea. Ikenwilo will manage the company’s North Sea client base while identifying opportunities to increase its regional market share…
Elaine Maslin reports on Subsea 7’s new autonomous inspection vehicle and an AUV specification that has been put out for tender by French major Total. Subsea 7’s AIV. Images from Subsea 7. Life-of-field autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV)…
Australian oil and gas firm BHP Billiton has backed plans to develop what may be the world’s largest floating LNG project, saying it is “fully aligned” with partner ExxonMobil. But, the project is still facing difficulties, according to a statement from Exxon to news agency Bloomberg…
The test frame for Allseas’ mega-vessel Pieter Schelte arrived at BOW Terminal in Vlissingen. The En Avant 20 tugging the test frame. From Muller. Volker Staal en Funderingen (VSF) awarded…
Shell started production from its Cardamom subsea oil and gas field located in the Gulf of Mexico. The Cardamom system is tied back to Shell's Auger tension leg platform (TLP), marking the seventh subsea development to come onstream through the platform since first oil was achieved in 1994…
Dolphin Geophysical has received confirmation from the Export Control Division of the Norwegian Foreign Department that the recently announced contract in the Kara Sea is not subject to the current trade restrictive measures against Russia…
In Shell’s latest video, the supermajor shows how Cardamom is extending the life of Auger to provide as many as 50,000 more boe/d, increasing Auger’s production capacity to 130,000boe/d. OE reported earlier this week of Shell beginning…
The importance of technological innovation in the oil and gas industry has risen over the past two years, according to a survey by Lloyd's Register Energy. Image from Lloyd's Register Lloyd's Register surveyed operators in America…
According to a study published this month by US-based research and marketing company Markets and Markets, the maritime security industry will be worth around US$20 billion by 2019. The major drivers behind the exponential increase of…