PGS has added another Cray XC supercomputer to its Houston Mega Center. The computer is named PGS Galois after the French mathematician Évariste Galois (1811-1832), and comes in addition to the Cray XC supercomputer PGS Abel delivered last year…
Fifteen leading offshore companies, including Shell, Chevron, and McDermott International, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish engineering industry standards known as the Standardization Unified Joint Industry Project (JIP)…
French engineering firm Technip has been awarded an engineering services contract by Australia's Woodside to provide multi-disciplinary engineering services as part of an engineering panel. This contract covers all Woodside operated onshore…
Aqualis Offshore and China Ship Design & Research Center Co. (CSDC) have signed an agreement to cooperate on engineering projects both in China and internationally. CSDC specializes in shipbuilding and offshore engineering services.…
Clough has been awarded an engineering services contract by Woodside Energy. Clough will work as part of an engineering panel to provide multi-disciplinary engineering services for Woodside. The contract covers the full spectrum of engineering…
Water treatment solutions company Water Standard secured a contract with Shell Offshore for the design, fabrication, testing, and shipment of an ultrapure water generation package (UWGP) to be integrated on Appomattox, Shell’s floating production system located in deepwater…
ION Geophysical has been awarded an extension to its existing multi-year contract with Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the national oil company of Mexico. Under this contract, ION is providing a broad range of seismic data processing for multiple offshore and onshore surveys…
Well plugging and abandonment activity as part of offshore decommissioning is starting to ramp up – but could it be done better? Elaine Maslin reports. Interwell’s exothermic P&A solution. Image from Interwell…
The Norwegian Oil and Gas Association has offered a glimmer of hope for contractors and suppliers on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), suggesting investment is set to rise 'substantially' in 2018 and 2019. The trade body said investment…
Junior exploration firm Trapoil has agreed to acquire Jersey Oil and Gas E&P (JOG) for £495,000 and raise about £820,000 to cover its costs. In a reverse takeover style deal, Trapoil will be renamed Jersey Oil and Gas and JOG's founding…
Despite over 37 billion bbl remaining in proven reserves, oil production in Nigeria is forecast to falter due to underinvestment, with the country’s oil and gas sector in desperate need of reforms and transparency to reverse this trend, according…
Well Flow International named Osama M. Hasan Baiej as its vice president of business development for the Arabian Gulf and North Africa. Baiej has more than 15 years of experience in business development and strategy, oilfield services…
Schlumberger has launched depth domain inversion services, which is used by petrotechnical for reliability and consistency in seismic structural and quantitative interpretation in complex environments. Performing seismic inversion in…
Wood Group has been awarded an offshore maintain potential program contract by Saudi Aramco for greenfield and brownfield engineering services, procurement and construction management support for new facilities in the Arabian Gulf. The six-year contract…
Wood Group Mustang (WGM) completed engineering services for the two Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) vessels that can be deployed in the event of a deepwater well control incident in the US Gulf of Mexico. Services provided included the follow-on design engineering…