Life extension and the modification of existing oil and gas platforms present increasingly significant challenges to the offshore industry and platform designers.
Offshore structures have to be designed for safety, but defining safety criteria presents challenges. While there is universal agreement that safe structures are critical, it ...
From straightforward cleanouts and casing exits to complex workovers, well intervention is a continuous and necessary aspect of hydrocarbon production that boosts exploration ...
PGS conducts 3D controlled-source electromagnetic feasibility studies prior to acquisition, which provide oil companies with an understanding of how towed streamer EM can assist...
The string of natural gas discoveries offshore Mozambique, amounting to more than 100 tcf, could position the country among the world's largest natural gas producers by 2021.
Shell recently celebrated several major milestones for Malikai as it moves closer to entering production, when it will become the company's second operated deepwater project in...
The time has come for the industry to face the facts and admit that current field development strategies, particularly in deeper waters, are simply not working. One method that...
The waters of the Gulf of Mexico are once again seeing major seismic surveying activity. TGS and Schlumberger recently started the full-azimuth multi-client Revolution XII and...
Drilling activities in US offshore areas (primarily in the Gulf of Mexico) continue to suffer as a result of the prolonged low oil price environment that has existed since late...
Damen Shipyards Group has released a new concept design called the Damen Decommissioning Series which will specialize in three core areas of the oil and gas decommissioning industry...
Statoil and its partners have submitted the plan for development and operation of the Byrding (previously Astero) oil and gas discovery in the North Sea to government authorities...
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management reports that its recent Lease Sale 248 garnered $18,067,020 in high bids for 24 tracts covering 138,240 acres in the Western Gulf of Mexico...
Mexico's Comision Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) is looking to appoint a joint venture, including two operators, for the 480-MMbbl Trion light oil field development in the Perdido...
Though still a very small part of AUV usage, the commercial sector (primarily oil and gas) is growing and is expected to do so consistently over the forecast period.
Ghana's second deepwater development, TEN, has come onstream on time and within budget - a welcome break in the trend of major project cost overruns and delays.
