Mike Jardon is to take over as CEO of UK-based Expro succeeding Charles Woodburn, who is leaving the company in April to join defense firm BAE Systems. Jardon joined Expro in 2011 as COO, after holding senior roles within Schlumberger’s wireline…
Halliburton has released the Dash 3in subsea safety system, a solution for electrohydraulic control of Halliburton’s subsea safety tree. Previously, control was provided through direct hydraulic pressure from the surface. This latest edition…
READ has launched a new micro-leak detection solution, which will deliver answers for on the spot well integrity management decisions, to help maximize operational safety and minimize downtime, the company said. The diagnostic solution…
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies has been awarded a 3-year contract by Wintershall for provision of its hosted SiteCom real-time data aggregation and visualization solution for well construction. All real-time, planned and historical…
Better success rates from North Sea exploration drilling could be achieved if historical well data was stored and shared better, according to the results of a review of well data published. The Oil and Gas Authority says a lack of quality geoscience and geophysics work…
NorSea Group (UK) has won a five-year contract with Wild Well Control for the storage of its emergency response WellCONTAINED System at NorSea Group’s facilities in South Base, Montrose. The WellCONTAINED system of services includes…
Claxton Engineering Services, an Acteon company, has formed a collaborative alliance with energy services firm LR Senergy to provide clients with an offshore rig-based decommissioning service. The new alliance builds on a long-established relationship between the two companies…
Aberdeen-based sand control technology firm has secured a contract with Statoil following a successful trial of its downhole well completions technology. Darcy has signed a framework agreement with Statoil to supply its unique hydraulic…
Image from Baker Hughes. Baker Hughes announced the commercial release of FATHOM XT SUBSEA525 inhibitor that helps control asphaltene deposition in deepwater wells. The…
Weatherford International announced the commercial release of JetStream Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) circulation sub at the 2015 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. Poor wellbore integrity can cause events such as stuck pipe…
Trendsetter Engineering has completed work on a containment toolkit that can be deployed to minimize the environmental impact of a subsea well incident. This follows their delivery of four subsea well capping stacks, designed to shut in an uncontrolled subsea well…
Oil and gas operators will have to approach the challenge of decommissioning in new ways if the goal of maximizing economic recovery from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is to be achieved, according to a report from professional services firm KPMG…
Borets, a provider for the engineering, manufacturing, sales and service of electric submersible pump (ESP) systems, has successfully conducted a North American field trial of its PMM-PCP system, the first permanent magnet motor (PMM) running…
A portable Intervention Work Over Control System (IWOCS) deployment system developed by Caley Ocean Systems has been used to successfully test the manifold functions on four deepwater subsea manifolds post installation. Image…
Driven by the rapid expansion of shale oil and gas drilling, and production in North America, the world market for oil field specialty chemicals at the service company level reached US$25 billion in 2014, up from nearly $16 billion in 2010…
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