E Plug has been named 2015 winner of the Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA) European Chapter’s Innovation Award. Scott Mitchell, Chair of the European Chapter of ICoTA (left), presents the award to Thomas Johansen…
Mexican Secretary of Energy Pedro Joaquín Coldwell presented International Energy Agency (IEA) executive director Fatih Birol with an official letter declaring Mexico’s interest in becoming an IEA member. Image of Birol…
Statoil is saying goodbye to Alaska exploration and has decided to exit its leases in the Chukchi Sea following recent results in nearby leases, in addition to finding the leases no longer competitive. Map of Alaskan leases Statoil is exiting…
Geocsience firm TGS is to cut staffing by a further 130, or 16%, after continuing to review its cost base amid the ongoing weak market conditions. Image from TGS. The firm says…
NEL, the UK-based flow measurement research and development specialist, has launched a joint industry project (JIP) to meet an urgent industry requirement to address the challenges of accurately measuring highly viscous, multiphase flows…
Ben Lake, of Weatherford, discusses how rigorous testing and validation are essential for ensuring safety valve reliability and performance. As the last line of defense in protecting life, property, and the environment, subsurface safety…
EDP Renewables (EDPR), Mitsubishi (through its subsidiary Diamond Generating Europe), Chiyoda (through its subsidiary Chiyoda Generating Europe), Engie and Repsol entered into an agreement to implement a floating offshore wind farm off the coast of Northern Portugal…
Schlumberger is at it again with another acquisition, this time of US-based Fluid Inclusion Technologies (FIT), which specializes in laboratory analysis of trapped fluids in rock material, and advanced borehole gas analysis on drilling wells…
Conductor Installation Services (CIS) successfully completed its second subsea piling campaign for Technip in Norway. Deck Layout close-up. Image from Technip. CIS used its remotely operated Subsea Piling System…
SBM Offshore received a formal invitation from Brazilian giant Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) to tender for the Sépia and Libra floating production storage and offloading units (FPSOs). Brasa shipyard…
First oil at Shell’s Stones project in the Gulf of Mexico is on the horizon, as the Turritella floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) set sail from Singapore this month. The Turritella…
Airborne Oil & Gas will supply non-collapsible flexible jumpers to Wild Well Control for the deepest riser less plug and abandonment in the Gulf of Mexico Wild Well Control awarded Airborne Oil & Gas (AOG) a contract for the supply of two flexible TCP Jumpers…
Norway's Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has given Lundin the green light to start production from the Edvard Grieg field. The field is in production license 338 in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. According to the NPD, the…
Ithaca Energy's delayed Greater Stella Area development remains on track for first production in Q2 next year. In a trading update this morning, Ithaca says sailaway of the FPF-1 floating production facility from the Remontowa Shipyard in Gdansk…
Norway's Det Norske has bought UK-based independent explorer Premier Oil's Norwegian assets for US$120 million, just a month after agreeing to buy Svenksa Petroleum for $75 million. The Premier Oil assets include the Vette development…
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