Elaine Maslin reports how Slovakian company GA Drilling hopes to make short shrift of section milling using a plasma-based downhole tool technology. Assembly of a plasma testing prototype. Photos from GA Drilling…
Dr. Lena Wilson, chief executive of Scottish Enterprise and chair of Scotland’s Energy Jobs Taskforce, is leading the first ever delegation of Scottish companies to Myanmar in a bid to identify trade, investment and collaboration opportunities in the market…
Schlumberger has acquired France-based Saltel Industries in a move that will strengthen the company’s completions technology portfolio. Image of Saltel's SES Patch for pipeline repair, from Saltel Twitter…
Det norske oljeselskap awarded a framework agreement to First Geo for delivery of a broad range of subsurface and well engineering services. Under the contract, First Geo will provide personnel within the technical areas such as subsurface specialists…
Wellhead servicing specialist Well-Centric is investing £300,000 in a significant expansion of its workshop facilities in Dyce, Aberdeen. The upgrade of the Dyce workshop will provide additional capacity and allows Well-Centric to offer its maintenance…
Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) provider ROVOP has been awarded £3 million worth of new contracts, which sees the company expanding into two new territories - southeast Asia and Mexico. The company has also announced the appointment of…
The offshore substation jacket for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm, made in Lowestoft by Sembmarine SLP, has been successfully installed in the seabed on site. The four-legged jacket, designed and built by Sembmarine SLP, stands at a near-perfect verticality of 0…
There’s no disputing the somber mood of this year’s Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, but industry leaders attempted to stay upbeat. Melissa Sustaita reports. Wael Sawan executive vice president…
A new concept in well tools could see one-off tools built, run and left downhole to disintegrate. Elaine Maslin reports. A computer graphic of the FLI design. Images from Well-Sense Disintegrating…
ConocoPhillips is working to plug and abandon 130 wells in the southern North Sea, reducing the number of days it takes as it works through the program. But, it wants to improve further, Elaine Maslin reports. The GMS Endurance jackup…
Automating data collection reduces operator exposure to offshore hazards, as well as making it easier, says Emerson Process Management’s Craig Abbott. Statoil’s Gullfaks’ B platform. Photo from Statoil…
The UK North Sea is expected to dominate the decommissioning market from 2016-2040. How much it will cost depends on the success of vessels such as Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit, says Douglas-Westwood’s Ben Wilby. Pioneering Spirit with the Lorelay…
Statoil Petroleum made a small discovery but also drilled a dry hole on its latest drilling in production license 035, 35km south west of the Oseberg Sor facility. Wildcat well 30/11-12 S (the Askja South East prospect) encountered a 37m oil column in the upper Tarbert formation…
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has opened the Norwegian Ocean Laboratory at Marineholmen in Bergen. The laboratory will host world-class research infrastructure and facilitate collaborative cross-border technology development for ocean research…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for two wildcat wells and an appraisal well, if a discovery is made, in PL 035. The wells, 30/11-14, 30/11-14 A and 30/11-14 B, will be drilled from the Songa Delta semisubmersible drilling rig…
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