The offshore industry may see two new dry-tree semisubmersible concepts advance from the "technology acceptance" to "project readiness" level within the next few years, according...
Everything we have previously known about drill pipe is on the verge of change through the development of a computerized system that uses radio frequency identification (RFID)...
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists annual meeting allows attendees to learn about specific technical advances and gain insight into the broad indications of how the business...
For the first time ever outside of Houston, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) expanded to Brazil, Oct. 4-6, to create the OTC Brasil 2011 conference and exhibition.
FMC Technologies Inc. has secured a contract from BG Norge to manufacture and supply subsea production equipment for Knarr oil and gas field for approximately $135 million.
The Philippines has set out a new round of leasing hydrocarbon basins in a bid to raise indigenous hydrocarbon supplies and cut the heavy dependency on imports of high-price crude...
The offshore industry is more diverse and distributed than most. Innovation for the offshore community means discovering better ways to be productive in remote and harsh environments...
Recognizing global demand for more robust and reliable shear rams, T3 Energy Services, a unit of Robbins & Myers Inc., began to design a Shear All Ram system in 2010.
Technological advances in oil and natural gas development and the increasing availability of existing infrastructure are reducing the interval from the discovery of commercially...
Consider the problems. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) and various chlorides are all present in the hydrocarbons delivered from subsea fields, and they ...
In 2001 the need for simple to deploy, but high strength, subsea connections for deepwater moorings led to development of the first ball and taper mooring connectors.
Recent progress in techniques to monitor regular and planned exploration and production discharges offshore is expanding environmental management options for E&P companies.
Gazprom and PDVSA are discussing a joint development of the Robalo gas field in the Gulf of Venezuela. The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding which sets out...
Since 2008 industrial hose manufacturer IVG Colbachini has coordinated its drive toward the offshore sector via subsidiary companies Bassi Offshore and MIB Italiana.
The 30th anniversary of Deep Offshore Technology International (DOT), held last month in New Orleans, was a success. My sincere thanks to the conference host Hess Corp., and to...
A pipelay barge purpose-built for operations in up to 100 m (328 ft) water depth in the Caspian Sea has completed its first full season in the Turkmen sector.
The result of Offshore's 2011 survey of pipelay vessels indicates that only a handful of new pipelay vessels were added to the worldwide fleet during the two years since the previous...
High on the list of frontier areas beckoning explorers are the Arctic offshore regions bordering the US, Canada, Europe, and Russia, with growing interest in Greenland.
