In an industry first, achieved last year, 3M ceramic sand screens were deployed from a light well intervention vessel, Helix’s Well Enhancer. Deploying the screens offshore last year. Photos from 3M…
With Shell’s Brent Charlie due to shut down in 2018, the supermajor has had to find a new home for its Penguins cluster subsea tieback. Elaine Maslin outlines the redevelopment plans. Lucy Ritchie…
The impact of asset integrity is hard to quantify, but UK North Sea goals to tackle it, including using robots, are being made clear. Elaine Maslin reports. The P100 robot “snake arm” robot is due to be trialed in the North Sea this year…
Elaine Maslin chats with Helix Energy Solutions to find out how the intervention services provider is keeping afloat with new collaborative offerings, and, yes, new vessels entering the market. Helix’s newbuild the Siem Helix 1…
Satnam Shoker, of Step Change Engineering, details a new automated, streamlined process, which helps save time during brownfield modification work. Scan data of cooler inlet pipework imported directly into Autodesk Recap…
Jacobs Engineering signed a contract with ONEgas to perform engineering services for the decomplexing of its K15-FA platform in the North Sea. The decomplexing process involves transitioning K15-FA to an unmanned platform without gas treatment installations…
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK has exercised a further four weeks of options for the Safe Boreas semisubmersible accommodation vessel, says Prosafe. The Safe Boreas will continue operations for Repsol Sinopec Resources UK at Montrose A in…
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the harsh environment jackup rig Mærsk Gallant, following a competitive tendering exercise by Nexen Petroleum UK, a wholly owned subsidiary of CNOOC Ltd. The contract covers the drilling of the high-pressure…
Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is to speak at the opening plenary session at SPE Offshore Europe 2017, which is being held in Aberdeen from 5-8 September 2017. van Beurden will address several hundred oil and gas industry professionals in…
Fractured basement explorer Hurricane Energy is closer to proving its Halifax discovery is linked to its Lancaster field, forming a single field, which would be the UK's largest undeveloped discovery on the UK Continental Shelf. Hurricane…
Wood Group has been awarded a US$50 million contract with Premier Oil, to deliver topside operations and maintenance services to the Balmoral floating production vessel (FPU) in the central North Sea and the Solan installation, West of Shetland…
North Sea independent explorer Jersey Oil & Gas says the Verbier prospect, due to be drilled by Statoil this summer, contains 162 MMboe mean prospective resources. The estimate - and increase on a previous 118 MMboe estimate - was made…
First production from Maersk Oil's Flyndre field, which straddles the UK and Norwegian North Sea boundaries, started yesterday (26 March). The field is a 25km single well subsea tieback to the Repsol Sinopec-operated Clyde platform, from which it is then exported via the Fulmar platform…
Aberdeen-based visual asset management (VAM) firm Return To Scene is conducting a pilot project for BP utilizing the latest generation of its visualization technology, R2S Mosaic. The technology, which adds spatial intelligence, among other advanced new capabilities…
The UK's Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) and Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) have joined forces to fund and support the development of innovations which could reduce costs, raise production efficiency, and improve safety and environmental performance…
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