Heather Saucier investigates how microseismic monitoring is being used for monitoring field conditions in real time and helping to build better models. Landmark’s 3D models can use reservoir monitoring to improve performance prediction…
Getting HPHT right is a real challenge for today’s industry, involving finding new materials, setting new standards and building competence in the industry. Elaine Maslin reports. Ian Penman, senior global technical advisor…
We’re in tough times, but that also means there’s an opportunity to seek new solutions, according to Proserv’s David Lamont. Elaine Maslin went to hear the CEO’s views. Lamont. In 1982…
Expro is entering Qatar for the first time in a five-year contract for well intervention and slickline services including high deviation and heavy-duty fishing offshore Qatar. “In current market conditions, Expro recognizes the need for operators to lower production costs…
Petrobras announced that its chairman, Murilo Pinto de Oliveira Ferreira, who was in leave of absence since 14 September, 2015, presented his resignation. Luiz Nelson Guedes de Carvalho, who was performing the duties of the chairman since 14 September…
Image: map of Mauritania block C-10/Sterling Energy Sterling Energy has announced that completion has now occurred under the sale and purchase agreement between its wholly owned subsidiary…
Det norske oljeselskap has, on behalf of the partnerships in PL 203 (Alvheim) and PL 150 (Volund), awarded an agreement to Transocean Offshore for the lease of the semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Arctic. The contract scope for drilling of four wells in the Alvheim area…
Premier Oil’s Solan field is due to come onstream by the end of this year. It’s a unique project for the North Sea – a normally unmanned facility with a subsea oil storage tank. Bibby Polaris on location at Premier Solan…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for well 16/4-10. Well 16/4-10 will be drilled from the Island Innovator drilling facility in position 58°35’03.08’’ north 02°10’21.95’’ east. The…
ABB successfully commissioned a subsea power link for oil and gas company Eni Norge that will supply power from the Norwegian grid to the new Goliat floating, production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO). The 105.5km subsea power cable system is the longest of its kind in the world…
Fugro has been awarded a contract by Ophir for survey services for the development of large scale assets and infrastructure offshore Equatorial Guinea. Under the contract Fugro will deploy three of its specialist vessels - Fugro Searcher…
Iran has offered 52 oil and gas development projects in addition to 18 exploration blocks at its Tehran IPC Conference, held last week, according to state backed petroleum news agency Shana. The projects, estimated to be worth more than US$30 billion…
First oil started from the Edvard Grieg field in the Norwegian North Sea 28 November 2015. The Edvard Grieg field is part of PL338 on the Utsira High in the North Sea, about 180 km west of Stavanger. The development comprises a steel jacket platform and 22…
French independent Perenco and partner Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures have made their final investment decision on a floating LNG project offshore Cameroon. The move follows an agreement with Gazprom Marketing & Trading Singapore Pte over gas sales…
Norwegian certification and classification body DNV GL has produced a 'top 10' cyber security vulnerabilities for oil and gas firms operating offshore Norway. The list, produced as the organization delivered a study on cyber security to the Lysne Commmittee…
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