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Trellborg expands Houston team

Nov 28, 2016

Trelleborg’s offshore operation based in Houston has invested in a new Global Riser Analysis team to incorporate in-house mathematical simulation capabilities into its current engineering group. The Global Riser Analysis team consists…

EU clears way for FMC, Technip merger

Nov 24, 2016

FMC Technologies and Technip been cleared by the European Commission to go ahead with a merger. The firms are set to combine, with shareholders due to vote on the move, announced back in May, on 5 December. Clearance decisions have…

BGP starts Cuba 2D multi-client survey

Nov 23, 2016

BGP Marine started a 2D multiclient survey, offshore Cuba, after signing a contract with Cuba-Petroleo Co. (CUPET). Map from BGP. The project comprises 25,000 km of 2D long-offset…

DW: Subsea development is critical

Nov 22, 2016

The oil and gas industry is known for being cyclical, however, the current reality of a “lower for longer” oil price has made sanctioning large offshore projects financially unviable, Douglas-Westwood (DW) said. Many oil majors have opted to focus on subsea well tiebacks…

Castex gets successful Hummer test

Nov 22, 2016

Castex Offshore had a successful flow testing of its Main Pass Hummer discovery well, offshore Louisiana, according to partner Petsec Energy. Flow rates were measured at restricted rates on variable choke sizes over the last three hours…

OGCI invests in low emissions technologies

Nov 22, 2016

In this video from Shell, the supermajor shows its efforts, along with six other major oil and gas companies, to invest US$1 billion to reduce methane emissions and accelerate deployment of carbon capture utilization and storage. The companies…

Talos flows Phoenix field with Tornado project

Nov 22, 2016

Talos Energy has started production from its Tornado project within the Phoenix field, in Green Canyon Blocks 236, 237, 280 and 281, in the US Gulf of Mexico.   Production, in about 822m (2700ft) water depth started on 27 October and…

Maersk Drilling, NOV tackle drilling equipment maintenance

Nov 21, 2016

Maersk Drilling and National Oilwell Varco (NOV) have entered into a five-year partnership to improve maintenance predictability for drilling equipment. The shared vision behind the partnership is to implement a new maintenance mind-set which…

Neptune opens Houston office

Nov 21, 2016

Neptune Marine Services (Neptune) has opened a new office in Houston, Texas, operating under the name Neptune Subsea. The move will enable Neptune to provide the full suite of Neptune’s services to clients within the Gulf of Mexico and the Americas…

Obama leaves Arctic off the table

Nov 18, 2016

The US Department of the Interior (DOI) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released the final plan for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) lease sales for 2017-2022, excluding areas in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in the US Arctic…

Amberjack GoM debottleneck complete

Nov 18, 2016

The Amberjack debottlenecking project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM) has been completed, expanding its infrastructure and increasing Green Canyon Block platform (GC-19) off-take capacity by 60%.   Amberjack illustration…

Noble lays out job cuts, four-year plan

Nov 17, 2016

Noble Energy's long-term plans has cut 60 jobs from its workforce, with 55 of them in Houston, and lays out plans for its offshore assets in the Eastern Mediterranean. Tamar operations, image from Delek…

IEA: Bumpy road ahead

Nov 16, 2016

Oil markets could be in for another bumpy ride, a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) says. The agency’s report also says that a true global gas market is upon us, in addition to the need to invest US$44 trillion in the global energy supply…

Danos completes skid fabrication for Appomattox

Nov 15, 2016

Danos has completed the fabrication of three boarding valve skids and one service line skid for Shell deepwater Appomattox facility. Requiring approximately 12 months to complete, the project engaged four Danos service lines, including project management…

BP, GE in joint digital start-up

Nov 15, 2016

BP and GE Oil & Gas announced the start-up of Plant Operations Advisor (POA), a new digital solution designed to improve the efficiency, reliability and safety of BP’s oil and gas production operations. POA is already helping BP manage the…

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