Fugro completed a year-long wellhead monitoring project for BP Americas measuring BOP stack motions and calculating wellhead fatigue during a deployment in the Gulf of Mexico. The drilling campaign was conducted throughout 2014 in…
Seanic Ocean Systems has successfully field tested its electric torque tool. The client, a major oil company in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, has reported highly accurate performance of the torque tool and innovative design features over the course of several jobs…
Alfa Laval, a provider of heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling solutions, won an US$10.2 million (SEK 85 million) order for separation modules. The order, booked in the Energy & Process segment, is scheduled for delivery this year…
Accurate allocation measurement results are a key financial and commercial driver for exploration and production companies. Yet despite limited evidence of the performance of Coriolis and ultrasonic flow meter technology, they are being…
EnerQuip, a new oil and gas services business being launched in Aberdeen, to provide torque machines and associated services to the drilling and downhole tools sectors. The business, which is to make an initial investment commitment of US$9 million (£6 million)…
Sercel announced today that its recently launched downhole seismic array tool, GeoWave II, broke temperature records during field trials. This performance represents the world’s first borehole seismic survey to be acquired with a digital…
Hydratight, a joint integrity specialist, has gained DNV GL Type approval for the MorSafe clamp, Hydratight’s new bolt renewal clamp. The clamp is used to change out bolts on flanges that are in operation. The MorSafe Bolt Renewal Clamp…
Harris CapRock Communications, a provider of managed communications services for remote and harsh environments, has been selected by Hess Corp. to provide a turnkey, integrated telecommunications solution to support the Stampede offshore field development project…
Ashtead Technology and Seatronics, providers of subsea equipment rental, sales and services, secured deals with Neptune Oceanographics, adding Neptune’s subsea pipeline leak detection systems and sensors including long range fluorescence and passive acoustics to their rental fleet…
Danish intervention specialist Welltec has entered into a technology collaboration framework agreement with Shell Global Solutions International, an affiliate of Shell, to improve existing or develop new technologies for global application in the energy industry…
Accura Group, based in Wolverhampton, and Peterborough-based Advanced Interactive Materials Science joined forces to manufacture Venturi Flow Meters, using the HIPing process for use with oil and gas production measurements. Venturi Flow…
The North Sea operation of a global independent energy company has just completed a contract and was the first to use what is believed to be the world’s largest oilfield drilling bit. Varel Oil & Gas Dill Bits was commissioned by Hess Corp…
Noway-based Aibel reports that the Troll A platform project received three new modules. The Troll field lies in the northern part of the North Sea, around 65 km west of Kollsnes, near Bergen. The field is comprised of the main Troll East and Troll West structures in blocks 31/2…
Cygnus Instruments has introduced a new range of thickness gauges, used for measuring remaining metal thickness without the need to remove protective coatings. The new range of thickness gauges now incorporated two additional measuring modes…
Trelleborg’s engineered products operation has successfully completed its supply of floatover equipment for Phase 3 of the DSO Escravos Gas Project; the operation’s first floatover in West Africa. Contracted by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI)…