Norwegian engineering and construction firm Kvaerner has announced plans to 'accelerate' the company's development, including looking at potential new partnerships and a change in ownership structure. Image: Kvaerner's Verdal yard. Kvaerner has appointed advsiry firm Greenhill & Co…
CGG has been awarded contracts for the 3D seismic acquisition of four major surveys using its BroadSeisTM with BroadSourceTM, marine broadband technology. The four surveys represent a total contract value of over US$80 million. Three…
Statoil has brought on stream its two latest “Fast-track” fields, Fram H-North and Svalin C, in the North Sea. Fram H-North, north of Fram West in the Troll area, and Svalin C, in block 25/11 southwest of the Grane platform, are the eighth…
UK-based heavy oil explorer Xcite Energy has signed an agreement which could pave the way for a common gas export route for the Kraken, Bentley and Bressay heavy oil fields. The collaboration agreement is between with Statoil and a subsidiary of EnQuest…
Premier Oil's Solan facility, including subsea tank, jacket and topside, have now been installed west of Shetland. Hook up and commissioning will start on the development, which is in Block 205/26a, in 135m water depth, but first oil will be dependent on progress of this phase of work…
Baker Hughes issued the August 2014 international rotary drilling rig count, showing a total of 1339 rigs operating worldwide in August 2014, outside of the US & Canada. The results show a decrease of 43 from the 1382 counted in July 2014…
3M added two rescue devices to its personal safety portfolio to help protect people working at height. The 3M and DEUS Escape and Rescue Systemenable workers to steadily control their descent from heights up to 590ft. The easy-to-use…
Belden Inc. introduces its Hirschmann Industrial Ethernet Network program to professionals responsible for industrial network infrastructures throughout North America. The program seeks to train, test and qualify individuals’ skills and…
Wärtsilä's 2-stroke dual-fuel technology will be featured on two new, large 180,000 cbm LNG carriers. South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries and SK Shipping and Marubeni are building the carriers that will be powered by 6-cylinder Wärtsilä X62DF 2-stroke dual-fuel engines…
The new Wärtsilä LNGPac has been granted an AIP (Approval in Principle) Certificate from the classification society DNV GL. The AIP Certificate covers Wärtsilä’s improvements to the original LNGPac. The new solution has removed the heating media skid and its pumps…
Emerson Process Management released an injection control application designed for the FloBoss 107 flow computer and ROC800-Series remote operations controller designed to accurately measure and control water or steam delivered to injection wells…
Emerson Process Management released the OpenEnterprise v3 SCADA platform for the upstream production and distribution market. The OpenEnterprise release offers ease-of-use and expanded device connectivity for communication protocols…
Oil and gas exploration and production programs in West African states are under increasing risk due to the failure to contain the Ebola virus, potentially depriving the region’s economy of millions of dollars a day, according to an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData…
In Shell’s latest video, the supermajor shows how Cardamom is extending the life of Auger to provide as many as 50,000 more boe/d, increasing Auger’s production capacity to 130,000boe/d. OE reported earlier this week of Shell beginning…
Petrobras awarded Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) a US$5.5 million contract for 3D EM data acquisition in Brazil. EMGS says all necessary permits are in place and the start-up of acquisition will be as soon as possible. The survey will be done using the vessel EM Leader…