Callum Munro (pictured), a senior well engineer with BP, has taken over the chairmanship of the European chapter of the Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA). Fellow committee member Michael Taggart, a Baker Hughes engineering manager, was appointed co-chairman.
One of Bergen鈥檚 biggest and boldest offshore players is Framo Engineering, now wholly owned by Schlumberger following its purchase of the Sandsli-headquartered company鈥檚 remaining equity shares in June 2011. The two organisations had worked鈥
Staffing shortages are creating project delays at a majority of large oil & gas companies, according to new data released by management consultancy Schlumberger Business Consulting.The much-discussed 鈥榖ig crew change' 鈥 the retirement of geoscientists鈥
Salaries for oil & gas industry engineers shot up over the past year, rising an average 6.1% across several professional disciplines, according to a new survey released by recruitment firm Hays.The average permanent salary across the survey's sample of 144鈥
French offshore service provider Bourbon Subsea Services calculates that its seven inspection, maintenance and repair vessels working offshore West Africa have supported hydrocarbon production to the tune of 1.8 million boe/d over an eight-year period鈥
India's biggest offshore lift to date 鈥 the 4000t MLQ (Mumbai Living Quarters) module, designed and constructed by Larsen & Toubro for ONGC 鈥 was successfully carried out by Seaway Heavy Lifting's new 5000t lift capacity heavylift vessel Oleg Strashnov on 12 February鈥
Operator Statoil and contractor Aker Solutions jointly hosted an open house in Stavanger recently to review progress on Gudrun 鈥 currently the biggest project in Statoil and now ramping up for the construction phase 鈥 and share learnings on this and other areas of Norwegian offshore activity鈥
Three Norwegian projects are racing to deliver a subsea technology solution that promises to yield major rewards for the industry. Terry Knott provides a thumbnail sketch of the subsea gas compression ambitions for the Åsgard, Gullfaks and Ormen Lange fields鈥
The new Huisman-supplied 鈥榮uper fly jib鈥 on the BigLift Shipping heavylifter Happy Buccaneer made its operational debut recently. Teijin Aramid鈥檚 lightweight Twaron fibre, said to be five times stronger than steel, was employed for the first鈥
Aker Solutions is strengthening its presence in northern Norway with the acquisition of Sandnessjøen Engineering, which has for 20 years supplied engineering and project management services to the oil & gas and construction industries in the Sandnessjøen area鈥
Petrofac has acquired KW, a UK-based high-end subsea pipeline consulting and engineering services business with offices in Woking and Aberdeen.
Now in its 43rd year, the 云顶赌场老虎机 Technology Conference returns to Houston鈥檚 Reliant Park 30 April-3 May. Almost as old as the offshore industry itself, the annual gathering has thrived throughout an E&P era marked by peaks, valleys, tremendous鈥
Saipem's new pipelay giant Castorone, currently under construction at Keppel shipyard in Singapore, will replace the veteran Castoro Sei as the contractor's flagship vessel for laying large diameter pipelines and serving the growing deep- and ultra-deepwater markets鈥
Whether it's providing protection for kit in HP/HT environments, keeping corrosion at bay or defending vessels against fouling or iceberg damage, the offshore industry sure does ask a lot of its paint jobs nowadays.Jennifer Pallanich talks to鈥
CSA International and EGS Survey Group have formed a new Houston-based joint venture company, EGS Metocean Sound Sciences (MSS), to provide metocean and acoustic monitoring services, including consultancy and the collection of high-quality data to assist in engineering鈥
