OMV Norway signed a three-year frame agreement with Aptomar to deliver its integrated field monitoring services for the operator’s future drilling activities. As part of the frame agreement OMV will have access to the Aptomar’s 24/7 environmental monitoring services…
Weatherford Secure Drilling Services and Maersk Training have entered a strategic partnership to enhance scenario-based training and competency for critical wells. The training will provide Weatherford, operator and rig-crew personnel with…
Oil and gas decision-makers are coming under increasing pressure to reduce asset downtime, according to new research. Commissioned by Lloyd’s Register Energy, the research polled 80 senior decision-makers in the oil and gas industry in October 2015…
Schlumberger and Ikon Science has announced an agreement to further develop the existing quantitative seismic interpretation capability in the Petrel exploration and production software platform. The collaboration will make high-value seismic…
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…
Image from Ashtead Technology. Ashtead Technology has secured a global asset management agreement with Blue Ocean Monitoring to store, maintain and supply underwater gliders for ocean data monitoring…
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…
Retrieving an unreliable blowout preventer (BOP) is a necessary but expensive operation, costing upwards of US$1-2 million dollars. This cost can easily escalate in developing ultra deepwater regions such as Brazil, West Africa and Gulf of Mexico…
Image: OPITO OPITO has introduced a mobile app designed to give North Sea offshore workforce access to their training and certification records anywhere at any time. In its first year…
Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) has announced an enhancement to its UniSim design and simulation software designed to help manufacturing facilities improve safety and reduce capital expenditures for both new and existing installations. The new UniSim Design Blowdown Utility…
CGG GeoSoftware has announced new releases to its application suites: Jason 9.0, Hampson-Russell 10.0 and Insight Earth 3.0. Jason 9.0 has a new anisotropic inversion tool for analyzing anisotropy for effective well design and optimum production…
Lloyd’s Register (LR) Energy and TWI launched a joint industry project (JIP) inviting companies from across the world to tackle the current and future issues faced by manufacturers supplying the energy industry. This latest JIP focuses on additive manufacturing…
Classification society ClassNK has commenced verification tests of its condition-based monitoring (CBM) system ClassNK CMAXS e-GICSX for Mitsui’s MAN B&W engines. The system is being jointly developed by ClassNK, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co…
AIMS Global Consulting, part of the Whiterock Group, has appointed KR Solutions (KRS), Norway, to represent them in Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). KRS is based in Stavanger and is headed by Kjell Roverud who has many years’ experience in the oil and gas service sector…
Pulse Structural Monitoring (Pulse), an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract with National Oilwell Varco (NOV) Arendal in Norway to provide an acoustic mooring line subsea monitoring system to measure mooring line inclination and tension…
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