Equipment & Technology News

Baker Hughes expands pipeline inspection services

Baker Hughes has broadened its pipeline service portfolio to include circumferential magnetic flux leakage (MFL) inspection technology.

New fluid sampling, pressure testing tools work at higher temperatures

Schlumberger has made available its new PressureXpress-HT reservoir pressure service and MDT Forte-HT high-temperature formation sampling and pressure system.

 

BAM Clough to supply module offloading facility for Ichthys LNG project

The JKC joint venture has awarded the BAM Clough joint venture a $A140 million ($151 million) letter of intent for work on the Ichthys LNG project.

ConocoPhillips, Keppel team up for Arctic jackup

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre (KOMtech) and ConocoPhillips are jointly designing a jackup capable of drilling in Arctic Sea ice regions.

Methanol analysis system unveiled

LUX Assure has launched OMMICA, a detection kit designed for use offshore or onshore to assess volumes of methanol or monoethylene glycol (MEG) in oil or water.

Shell engages Expro for North Sea well services

Shell UIE has awarded Expro a five-year, multi-discipline well engineering program.

Statoil broadens vessel’s North Sea well support role

Statoil has awarded DeepOcean Group additional inspection, repair, and maintenance contracts.

INPEX goes to McDermott for $2 billion SURF work at Ichthys

INPEX has contracted McDermott for the Ichthys gas/condensate field subsea umbilical, riser, flowline (SURF) work for $2 billion.

Court order dismisses Dril-Quip from claims in Deepwater Horizon litigation

Dril-Quip has announced that Judge Carl J. Barbier issued an order on Jan. 20, 2012 granting Dril-Quip's motion for summary judgment and dismissing all claims asserted against Dril-Quip. 

Castorone assigned Ichthys pipelay

INPEX has awarded Saipem an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract for the gas export pipeline at the Ichthys LNG Project in the Browse basin off Western Australia.

North Sea grout program to cover five jackets

Saipem has awarded FoundOcean two North Sea pile grouting contracts for a total of five jacket structures, installation of which should start during the first half of this year.

ExxonMobil orders Rolls-Royce equipment for Tapis EOR project

ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia has ordered gas turbine and compression equipment for Tapis field from Rolls-Royce.

Kürvers establishes office in South Africa

Kürvers Group has opened an office in Johannesburg, South Africa to service the Sub-Saharan engineering, procurement and construction market.

CSA appoints head of emergency environmental response program

CSA International has appointed Gordon Stevens as general manager of the STEP Program (Scientific Tools and Equipment Pool). 

Aker wins Talisman North Sea offshore maintenance support

Talisman Energy has awarded Aker Solutions MMO a frame agreement for the Canadian operator’s maintenance and modifications projects offshore Norway.

Saipem commissions TAG for North Sea Elgin field piles

Saipem has contracted TAG Energy Solutions to manufacture four foundation piles to support a jacket for use in Total’s Elgin B oil and gas field in the UK North Sea.

DTI to supply motion compensation packages for Chinese drillships

Drilling Technological Innovations has been contracted to supply motion compensation packages for Opus Offshore’s Tiger 1 and Tiger 2, the first drillships to be built in China.

Statoil outlines offshore technology goals

Statoil plans to raise its R&D investments by 27%, to support its goal of lifting production from 1.9 MMboe/d in 2010 to 2.5 MMboe/d in 2020.

i-TEC releases lower completion ball drop sleeve system

i-TEC has developed i-Frac, a new lower completion ball drop sleeve system, which the company claims can reduce well stimulation time.

Aker to supply riser package for Atwood drillship

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has contracted Aker Solutions for a deepwater CLIP drilling riser system for delivery to the DSME shipyard in South Korea.