Statoil has been looking for a way to make tank cleaning on supply vessels safer and more effective. M-I SWACO, a Schlumberger company, has developed a technological solution and has now been awarded a contract with Statoil that is valued at around US$55…
Greg Hale takes a look at how Shell integrated an asset integrity program into its new Prelude FLNG project with the intent of saving millions over the next 20-25 years. Integrating an asset integrity…
WFS Technologies (WFS), a provider of underwater wireless instrumentation and control solutions to the offshore oil and gas, and renewables industries, launched the Seatooth PipeLogger Corrosion Monitor. The Seatooth PipeLogger Corrosion…
ITC Global, a provider of satellite communications to remote and harsh environments, has announced that it has been awarded two multi-million dollar contracts, each spanning three years, to provide remote offshore communications to five floating production…
Gregory Hale discusses how operators can get more out of their current assets, and add more to the bottom line. All images from Honeywell. Systems on a platform floating in the…
The recent integration of automated real-time seismic hazard detection is the latest development furthering the argument for permanent reservoir monitoring. Aaron Smith, of PGS, sheds light. Fig…
UTEC NCS Survey was awarded a contract for heavy lift support services for a major project in the Baltic Sea. Partnering with LDD the contract is to deliver, in January 2016, a pile guide frame monitoring system, which will be used for…
Gregory Hale discusses how managed pressure drilling helps to eliminate the guess work. Automated managed pressure drilling is the future of conventional drilling. Photos from Weatherford. Realizing…
Melanie Luthi, Sanna Zainoune, and Stephen Forrester, of NOV, discuss how streaming downhole data on a job in the Norwegian North Sea helped improve both the drilling process and decision making. The time-based log shows the annular pressure…
René Larsen, of Inspection and maintenance software specialists SafeEx, discusses how Ex inspection software was deployed on a gas compression jackup rig destined for the Cantarell field offshore Mexico. Data collection…
Gregory Hale looks at how automation capabilities are removing guess work and allowing for real-time decision-making. The architecture for an automated rig allows for portable, machine independent…
Gregory Hale shows how web-based software utilizes high definition photos and video to extend the life of aging assets. Screen capture of a web-based software solution that utilizes high definition photo and video technologies…
Gregory Hale explains how avoidable downtime costs producers billions of dollars every year, with equipment failures being the most common culprit. Engineers remotely monitor all aspects of oil production…
Landmark, a Halliburton business line and provider of software for the upstream oil and gas industry, and Palantir Solutions, a provider of asset and corporate-level scenario planning software, have formed an alliance to develop a fully integrated economics…
Wood Group has acquired Automated Technology Group (ATG), an independent suppliers of control and power solutions for industrial automation. ATG will perform within Wood Group Mustang’s automation and control business unit, providing…