Weatherford International plc has announced the commercial release of the ISO Extreme retrievable well barrier, which is capable of withstanding pressure differentials up to 10...
TechnipFMC’s North Sea Giant is one of the largest subsea construction ships ever built. To help achieve a maximum safety and service life for the vessel’s crane, Tsubaki Kabelschlepp...
Halliburton has released the Marine Sentry 3000, a rotating control device that provides a pressure control solution by creating a seal around the drillstring and tool joints ...
Undetected corrosion and sand erosion can seriously damage metal pipe work on offshore installations. One major field development offshore China was faced with this challenge....
A new solar-powered monitoring tool has been developed that is said to offer many advantages over the traditional, and often difficult, approach to taking contact probe CP readings...
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, are being used increasingly for surveying and inspection of offshore installations, particularly in locations or situations considered either...
Corrosion under insulation is a major threat to offshore facilities, and the industry is researching new technology to help identify the impact earlier and more reliably.
Composite technologies are changing the way corrosion repairs are carried out on offshore assets. Though there has been slow adoption of this technology in the offshore oil and...
Shell’s Stones field FPSO in the US Gulf of Mexico is in the deepest-water setting of any floating production system to date. The novel disconnectable turret mooring system won...
The subsea industry has been hit hard by the downturn, despite being supported initially by substantial backlogs. Those backlogs are now eroded and at their lowest levels for ...
Models are required to forecast when an oil and gas structure is expected to be decommissioned. When models are developed, good modeling practice dictates that procedures be well...
The Brazilian presalt is a relatively young cluster with unique challenges and many uncertainties on its subsurface. Despite those risks, a decision was made to fast track its...
Simultaneous operations inherently require a centralized management and coordination system to integrate and visualize distributed data points and to enable communication and ...
A Special Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) unanimously fixed the course of the single, “all-purpose” maritime boundary between the Republic...
After the cost estimate of an initial design reached more than $20 billion, BP, BHP Billiton, and Chevron embarked on a recycle of the Mad Dog Phase 2 project in 2013. Three years...
Statoil and its contractors are making steady progress on the Johan Sverdrup field development in the northern Norwegian North Sea. At the project’s halfway point in September...
Shell has revamped its deepwater strategy to fit the needs of a low oil price environment, and its Appomattox project in the Gulf of Mexico is a key example of how the company...
Spectrum, in partnership with BGP Marine, has started a multi-client 2D seismic survey covering the Austral and Malvinas basins offshore southern Argentina. CGG has delivered ...
Sakhalin-1 consortium member Rosneft has successfully completed drilling a well from Orlan platform at Chaivo field in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia. Stated to be the longest in ...
The Liza FPSO conversion is under way at Keppel Shipyard in Singapore. The FPSO Egina is in route to Nigeria for topsides module integration and commissioning. Analyst Westwood...
McDermott International has a letter of award from Reliance Industries for the subsea field development in the Krishna Godavari basin offshore eastern India. Aker Solutions has...
US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has announced that the department is proposing the largest oil and gas lease sale ever held in the US – 76,967,935 acres in federal waters...
Chevron and Shell have submitted plans for incremental developments at their UK North Sea Captain and Shearwater hubs. Aker BP acquires Hess’ interest in North Sea Valhall project...
Offshore operators have been looking for innovative ways of keeping their projects moving forward while lowering capital expenditures. For many offshore operators, the name of...
