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Premier sets 2017 global plans

Mar 09, 2017

Premier Oil has revealed plans to drill offshore Mexico; the next phase of growth at Tolmount off the UK; and for the sanctioning of its BIGP project offshore Indonesia. Map of Block 2, Block 7 offshore Mexico…

Chevron starts up Mafumeira Sul

Mar 08, 2017

Chevron subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Co. (CABGOC) has started up the main production facility of the Mafumeira Sul project in Block 0, offshore Angola. Image of the Osprey heavy lift vessel that…

Proserv develops Subsea Sampling Cylinder

Mar 02, 2017

Global energy services company Proserv has launched a new subsea sampling cylinder that can improve the quality of results and reduce risks normally associated with sample transfer. Based on existing technology, the Proserv Subsea Sampling…

Engineering for Mexico’s deepwater developments

Mar 01, 2017

Fernando C. Hernandez, of SECC Oil & Gas, and Efrain Rodriguez, of IMP, discuss efforts to research rigless production solutions for Mexican deepwater operations. Figure 1: SECC’s connector installed on a manifold…

Faster start-up

Mar 01, 2017

Ronnie Bains, of Emerson Process Management, explains how the use of dynamic simulations and operator training systems can support engineering and workforce training to help bring offshore assets online quicker. Glen Lyon sets sail from South Korea…

The lifting business

Mar 01, 2017

Audrey Leon chats with Schlumberger, Baker Hughes and Weatherford to learn about the latest technologies available for artificial lift. Dedicated Schlumberger surveillance engineers monitor alarms to prevent or mitigate adverse events…

Waiting for the bright side

Mar 01, 2017

2016 was a year of huge challenges for the offshore drilling rig sector as the low oil price environment and reduced E&P spending continued to bite. Stephen Gordon, of Clarksons Research, charts the state of the market, which is arguably facing some of its toughest times since the 1980s…

Rystad: Offshore gaining on shale

Feb 28, 2017

Even though the oilfield service market in shale is the place to be in 2017, Rystad Energy says there is clear evidence that offshore projects are still being prioritized by exploration and production (E&P) companies. In fact, for every…

BP production on the rise

Feb 28, 2017

BP’s five-year plan has revealed the next wave of its competitive projects with potential new final investment decisions (FID), a list of several offshore projects set to come online this year, and eight projects that are currently under construction set for start-up in 2018-2021…

PRT gets Interventek Revolution valve for GOM

Feb 28, 2017

Interventek Subsea Engineering has signed a two-year exclusive deal with Louisiana-based Professional Rental Tools (PRT) to supply its in-riser Revolution valve for well intervention operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Interventek will supply its 6…

Video: Shell takes Kaikias FID

Feb 28, 2017

Shell and Mitsui Oil Exploration have taken the final investment decision for phase one of the Kaikias deepwater project in the US Gulf of Mexico, in hopes of starting production in 2019. Illustration of Kaikias…

Maersk Oil awards Sparrows floating assets contract

Feb 27, 2017

Sparrows Group has secured a five-year contract to deliver hydraulic, lifting and rigging services for Maersk Oil’s UK floating assets. The agreement will see Sparrows support the operator in strengthening its lifting operations for the…

Inpex names Ichthys FPSO, CPF

Feb 17, 2017

Inpex held double naming ceremonies at two South Korean yards for the FPSO and CPF related to the Ichthys LNG project, following the end of construction of both facilities. At Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard…

ExxonMobil sets reservoir computing record

Feb 16, 2017

ExxonMobil, working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), has achieved a major breakthrough with proprietary software using more than four times the previous number of processors used on complex oil and gas reservoir…

Leviathan first gas set for 2019

Feb 13, 2017

Noble Energy is moving forward with the development of its giant Leviathan project offshore Israel, with first gas targeted for the end of 2019. Image of Tamar operations, from Delek Group. The estimated 22 Tcf gas field…

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