Volume 73, Issue 4

3M has introduced Scotch High Strength Filament Tape 890HD to address the challenges posed by the harsh environments and extreme pressures of deepwater drilling.

Smith Bits, a Schlumberger company, has announced the release of its Stinger conical diamond technology.

Bredero Shaw has introduced "Complete Coating Assurance" - a new approach to pipeline coating that lowers the risks involved with today's complex offshore projects.

Active heating technologies can significantly help solve flow assurance issues from the subsea wellheads up to the surface support facilities, in particular when dealing with ...

With a registered attendance of nearly 2,700, the 2013 Subsea Tieback Forum & Exhibition held March 5-7 in San Antonio hosted "nearly 90% of the world's oil and gas subsea professionals...

The Ormen Lange pilot in Egersund, Norway, is the first subsea power distribution system to go into operation.

Today's industry standard work-class ROV can be designed to accomplish underwater almost any task that can be performed at the ocean's surface while allowing the vehicle operator...

Subsea production goes back some 30 years, during which time subsea controls have developed from simple and not always very reliable systems to highly complex systems able to ...

Producing hydrocarbons, particularly gas, in deepwater offshore North West Australia usually requires a wet or dry tree floating host platform.

Increasingly, operators of mature offshore oilfields are searching for late-stage intervention solutions that can revitalize aging, marginal wells, bringing them back online to...

Increasing demand for energy, matched with high commodity prices and advances in technology, are driving operators to extract whatever reserves remain in the challenging UK continental...

This month, Noble Energy is scheduled to bring onstream the first phase of the Tamar gas field in the Levant basin offshore Israel, which the company is billing as the world's...

Field development offshore Spain has always been sporadic, and much of the work has been in the Gulf of Valencia off the east coast.

Vessel owners and heavy lift contractors have been building new vessels and incorporating new technologies in response to a greater level of offshore heavy lift demands and activities...

As offshore exploration and production heads beyond 3,000 m (9,842 ft) water depth, the industry will need longer and stronger ropes for mooring and subsea installation systems...

Drilling rigs, especially offshore rigs, have been steadily adding automated systems for more than a decade.

According to basic microeconomic theory, perfectly competitive industries are characterized by unrestricted entry and exit of firms, large numbers of firms, and undifferentiated...

Recently, the Cuu Long Joint Operating Co. (CLJOC) deployed a couple of fit-for-purpose well placement solutions offshore Vietnam that have enabled the venture to enhance production...

Statoil's investment in Tanzania's offshore sector is looking like a smart move, with two significant discoveries from two wildcats last year.

Only a few years back, Mozambique was barely a blip on the oil and gas radar.

New information technologies such as cloud computing, mobility, social technologies, Internet of Things, big data/analytics, and 3D visualization have been getting a lot of attention...

A couple of pending lease sales are drawing a lot of attention these days.

Once a well is drilled, cased, and cemented, the hard part is over, right?

The current backlog for floating production systems stands at an all-time high, with 77 units under construction and orders for an additional 124 to 190 FPUs forecast between ...

Statoil has awarded framework agreements for subsea operations services on the Norwegian continental shelf to Aker Solutions and to FMC Technologies.

A Central Gulf of Mexico lease held in mid-March resulted in 52 companies submitting 407 bids on 320 tracts, with $1,214,675,536 in high bids.

Norway's unexplored offshore regions could be rich in resources, particularly gas, according to a new report from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD).

Shell has suspended exploratory drilling offshore Alaska.

This month, Infield Systems looks at the emerging East African offshore market and the leading operators expected to drive development offshore Tanzania and Mozambique.

Earlier this year we suggested the industry's increasing challenge to replenish and retain its skilled labor pool would be an emerging theme.