A new hydrate remediation system from Wright’s Well Control Services (WWCS) recently cleared a hydrate-blocked pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) in 7,200 ft (about 2,100 m)...
Direct electric heating systems (DEH) are a relatively novel technology, and there are currently more than 150 km (about 93 mi) of pipelines installed or under design that are...
Oil from TAQA Bratani’s Falcon discovery will start flowing through the Brent pipeline system later this year. Falcon is the company’s first new field development in the UK northern...
Complex drilling challenges often require unconventional solutions such as liner drilling to reach a successful outcomeSteven M. RosenbergDeepak M. GalaWeatherford International...
The Lower Tertiary oil and gas play in the Gulf of Mexico remains largely undeveloped, despite the high profile it carries. It also is a relatively recent play given the difficulties...
Floating LNG (FLNG) concepts have been identified as a promising development option for offshore gas fields, particularly for small-medium size reserves. The offshore West Africa...
Contractors, vendors, and service and supplies companies introduced a range of new products and technologies at the 2011 Offshore Technology Conference held at the Reliant Park...
Mexico’s oil industry is approaching a critical juncture. The long-cherished ideal of public ownership of the country’s hydrocarbon reserves is being challenged by declining oil...
It comes as no big surprise that there are slightly more mobile offshore drilling units currently in the Gulf of Mexico than there were a year or so ago, just before the fatal...
For those of you who may have missed it, this year’s Offshore Technology Conference in Houston grew 8% over last year in attendance to a total of 78,150. With WTI oil in the range...
Due to events in the past year, the safety performance of the offshore oil and gas industry has been called into question. This is unfortunate, since the industry has had an exemplary...
There is a lot of software with geosciences application making waves this month. It appears that the cycle of acquisition technology, computing power, and interpretation advances...
Jumbo Offshore reports that its heavy-lift vessel HLV Fairplayer soon will undertake work as part of the Laggan-Tormore field development in the UK North Sea. In June, the DP-...
Nexus Energy Ltd. has executed an agreement with McDermott Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. to do an engineering and strategy review of the Crux liquids project. Under this agreement, Nexus...
After a record-high year of production and exploration activity in 2009, results from 1Q 2010 were pointing toward another remarkable year for the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. However...
Seismic acquisition was due to start this month over the waters off Jan Mayen, a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean, 1,000 km (621 mi) west of Norway’s North Cape. The 2D campaign...
FMC and Technip have won the main subsea engineering contracts for the Hibernia field Southern Extension project off eastern Canada. FMC will provide up to six subsea injections...
There are slightly more mobile offshore drilling units currently in the Gulf of Mexico than there were a year or so ago, just before the fatal Macondo explosion and oil spill ...
Hydrus Group has appointed Martin F. Anderson as operations director. He will be in charge of developing and growing new business as the company aims to achieve a turnover of ...
