Volume 78, Issue 2

Aberdeen-based Raptor Oil is developing an acoustic telemetry system for use during well construction and production. This is designed to replace traditional mud pulse telemetry...

EIVA has introduced NaviSuite Workflow Manager for automatic data processing of large amounts of subsea data for autonomous or other underwater vehicles. First performance measurements...

Halliburton Sperry Drilling collaborated with Petrobras to engineer a drilling solution to reduce well time and increase drilling efficiency in the complex Brazilian presalt formation...

DeepDriver is commercializing a recently patented subsea piling hammer that is water depth independent and hydraulically powered by an ROV. The company says that this technology...

PRT Offshore says that its In-line Compensator (ILC) has been successfully deployed and operated from a deepwater drillship in 3,500 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico. The ILC...

Pinnacle Consulting Engineers has used Trimble’s Tekla software to assist steel structural modeling for two platform retrofit jobs in the southern North Sea.

The ability to pig a pipeline is crucial to maintenance and other operations such as pre-commissioning on the pipeline. Usually high-length, low-diameter pipelines are difficult...

The importance of subsea tiebacks in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico continues to grow, driven by several trends. A web-based tool for reconnaissance evaluation of tie-back options...

Chevron has embarked on the first major application of polymer in the North Sea to enhance oil recovery from the Captain field.

LLC Volgogradnefteproekt was selected to deliver an as-built 3D digital model for the seven platforms commissioned for the Vladimir Filanovsky offshore field in the Caspian Sea...

Platforms in the UK North Sea could be converted to run on geothermal energy, providing power to the offshore field facilities or feeding power to markets in Europe via trans-...

Fairfield Energy is close to completing final abandonment of the 61 wells connected to three decommissioned fields in the North Sea Greater Dunlin Area. Its next priorities will...

In the seventh and final part of this series, a forecast for the active structure inventory in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico is presented through 2037. Active structures include...

It is common practice for the project team to use conservative assumptions when estimating process properties due to limited data at design phase. This leads the project team ...

Robotic Drilling Systems AS has developed a fully automatic drilling system for largely unmanned operations. The combination of four handling robots helps the industry to save...

In the first five months of 2017 the ground work for a miracle was built over the shallow waters offshore South Gabon. In collaboration with the Gabonese Hydrocarbon Authorities...

Speakers and attendees at the recent Offshore Leadership Forum had a cautious but unmistakable air of optimism about the outlook for offshore business and new asset developments...

Newfoundland and Labrador’s fourth offshore production facility recently began operations, and the fifth is on its way. Late last year Exxon Mobil Corp. started production from...

Last year was yet another tough twelve months for offshore drilling contractors. While some offshore sectors began to experience recovery, it was not meaningful enough to save...

Both BP and Eni report that they have taken steps to increase their in-house computing power as a means of digital transformation, particularly in the management of data obtained...

Rising US onshore drilling costs are making deepwater E&P more competitive, according to a recent report from Westwood Energy. Onshore US contractors are scrambling to reactivate...

Late last month, the FPSO Egina berthed at the LADOL Free Trade Zone (FTZ) in Lagos, Nigeria, after a three-month voyage from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje...

Kreuz Subsea has won its largest ever subsea services contract. Statoil has agreed to join Aker BP, Lundin Petroleum, and National Oilwell Varco in a Fuglesangs Subsea-led joint...

It’s no secret that E&P activities in the US Gulf of Mexico have been in the doldrums in recent years. Exploration and development work in the US deepwater Gulf has lagged since...

Exploration offshore Norway needs to deliver larger field discoveries to sustain production at higher levels. Development activity is picking up across the Norwegian and UK offshore...

The offshore rig market saw little change in December, remaining essentially flat across all categories.

Offshore exploration drilling, field development, and leasing news from around the world.

With the oil price stabilizing and confidence returning to the industry, companies are now positioning for growth and sustainability, albeit with a renewed sense of capital discipline...