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TMC delivers Catcher compressors

Mar 30, 2017

International compressor supplier TMC Compressors (TMC) has completed its delivery of a marine compressed air system to BW Offshore’s Catcher floating production, and storage offloading (FPSO) vessel.   The system consists of 3 x 185…

SLB opens production technologies facility

Mar 28, 2017

Schlumberger has opened a new purpose-built Production Technologies Center of Excellence aimed at solving customers’ global challenges related to oil and gas production chemistry, particularly those encountered in deepwater, heavy oil and other extreme environments…

GATE acquires eelReel Tool

Mar 24, 2017

The eelReel Tool is an extended reach solution to clean plugged flowlines and pipelines. With an established track record of resolving a multitude of blockages comprised of hydrates, scale, paraffin, and asphaltenes, the eelReel Tool is a…

Halliburton offers SPECTRUM FUSION

Mar 21, 2017

Halliburton (HAL) has developed a new offering in the SPECTRUM family of real-time coiled tubing services, the SPECTRUM FUSION service. The FUSION service includes the first real-time system in the market using hybrid cable technology that…

ONGC awards L&T Neelam contract

Mar 20, 2017

L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Ltd. (LTHE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro, has bagged an offshore contract for the Neelam Re-Development and B173AC Project from the Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) valued at US$245 million.  The contract…

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…

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