Aberdeen-based upstream consultancy Add Energy has agreed to a new, global maintenance integrity and asset performance management agreement with Shell. The contract, valued at approximately £3 million (US$4.3 million), will secure jobs for more than nine people over the next three years…
Schlumberger is adding to its list of takeovers with the announcement of the acquisition of Meta Downhole, a UK-based engineering and service company that offers technology and expertise to provide downhole metal-to-metal isolation solutions in well integrity applications…
Oceaneering International has appointed William (Bill) J. Boyle as its new senior vice president, asset integrity. In this role, Boyle will be responsible for Oceaneering’s Asset Integrity business worldwide. This business provides asset integrity management…
ABS Group subsidiary Genesis Technology Solutions has been awarded a contract by Golar LNG to develop an intelligent maintenance strategy for the company’s new fleet of floating LNG (FLNG) vessels utilizing the GoFLNG floating liquefaction technology…
Aging assets and life extension are consuming ever more engineering hours in the offshore oil and gas industry. How can engineering tools help? Meg Chesshyre looks for answers. Image from Petrofac…
Strategic Corrosion Management (SCM) launched new systems to support improved tracking and management of integrity and corrosion anomalies for both on and offshore assets, supporting safety, productivity and cost management targets. An anomaly management module has been created for SCM’s…
The Research Council of Norway has through its Petromaks 2 program awarded 4Subsea funding for a research initiative on corrosion in flexible pipes. The initiative aims at developing new and improved ways of assessing structural integrity…
Penspen, a provider of engineering and management services to the energy industry, appointed Carl Mook as the new executive vice president (EVP) asset management and asset integrity and regional director of the Americas. In his new EVP role…
Lloyd’s Register has issued its latest Guidance Notes at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston. The Guidance Notes for Collision Analysis assist owners, operators, and designers of offshore units in America and Canada with identifying potential collision scenarios…
Claire Zhao and Dharmik Vadel, of Clarus Subsea Integrity, discuss condition monitoring as a proactive approach to minimizing downtime. Control system failure is one of the top contributors toward unplanned shutdowns in offshore subsea production systems…
BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT) is to supply an integrated marine monitoring system (IMMS) for Hess' Stampede tension leg platform (TLP) in the US Gulf of Mexico. The system includes instrumentation to measure the environmental conditions…
To meet the growing demands by operators for greater operational efficiency and public confidence in the integrity of offshore and onshore oil and gas structures, Lloyd’s Register Energy is increasing its structural engineering capabilities…
Across the oil and gas industry, life extension of assets and infrastructure is an increasingly important issue for operators as they look to balance the integrity, safety and productivity of the asset. To reflect the changing needs of the industry…
Petroleum Technology Co. (PTC) launched a single-piece, unwelded side pocket mandrel (SPM) for the upstream oil and gas industry. The NexLift side pocket mandrel is machined from one solid steel bar. This design feature replaces SPM technology…
Floating production systems are on the hard edge of asset integrity management, says Jonathan Boutrot. The business case for having an asset integrity management (AIM) system in place for offshore assets is getting more and more cogent every day…
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