Worries about the future of natural gas dominated proceedings as the SPE鈥檚 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition made its international debut in Florence last month. Speakers focused on what the industry must do to meet burgeoning global energy demand鈥
When setting out to reshape itself from a jack-of-all-trades drilling contractor to one with a deepwater future, Pride International realized it had to do more than simply change up its fleet. With deepwater assets tending to feature longer contract cycles than shallow and mid-water rigs鈥
HYWIND鈥橲 HIDDEN ASSETS: Syntactic foam specialist Trelleborg 云顶赌场老虎机 recently released details of how it employed well-proven offshore oil & gas technology in the subsea buoyancy arrangements for the world鈥檚 first wind turbine 鈥榝loater鈥,鈥
Each time a hurricane sweeps through the Gulf of Mexico, operators hope for the best 鈥 that their infrastructure, from topsides to flowlines to wellheads, remains safe in the face of nature鈥檚 fury. Determined to protect its assets, Chevron sought鈥
One or two recent asides from major seismic contractor bosses implies that they expect that the global seismic fleet to move closer to some kind of equilibrium next year where the supply of vessels is no longer so out of kilter with the demand for survey work鈥
In a 鈥榖rutally costcompetitive environment,' KBR has been looking at multiple ways to provide its services at an increasingly lower cost, said KBR chairman, president and CEO William P 鈥楤ill' Lutt during the 2010 Rice Global E&C Forum.Lutt told鈥
All dressed up and nowhere to go is never a good feeling. But that's exactly what has just happened to 鈭 of all companies 鈭 TGSNopec. The acknowledged maestro of the multiclient seismic survey business last month put out a terse statement that鈥
Schlumberger wrapped up its $11 billion purchase of Smith International at the end of August. Andrew Gould, chairman and CEO of Schlumberger, commented: 鈥榃e are ready to begin the process of realizing the synergies made possible by this merger鈥
Another drilling contractor, Seadrill, recently put to the test DNV鈥檚 new standard for managing integrated software dependent systems. Wendy Laursen assesses the system鈥檚 scope for reducing software-related downtime on drilling units.There are鈥
The effect of the continuing credit crunch last summer meant that North Sea field development activity was down last year, but the steadying of the price this spring has led to projects being dusted off in both the UK and the Norwegian sectors鈥
Andrew McBarnet suggests that the major marine seismic players are favourites to win in a crowded market.You would never realise it from the current crop of financial results and muted forward-looking statements from CEOs of marine seismic vessel operators鈥
The risks associated with placing complex open hole completions across the reservoir are increasing. Deep Casing Tools鈥 Mark Presslie explains why and describes how a new tool assists the first-time placement of liners or completions.--Over the past two decades鈥
Fracturing fluid additivesRelease of the new OpenFrac family of hydraulic fracturing fluid additive systems was announced by Schlumberger last month. The additive systems can be used for fracturing-stimulation treatments, including applications in challenging鈥
OE 鈥檚 analysis of current rig market data is updated monthly using statistics provided by Rigzone.comWorldwide utilization for the mobile offshore drilling fleet continues to hover in the 74-76% range. The recent softness seen in utilization鈥
Shell's solution for dealing with the heavy oil at the low-energy BC-10 concession offshore Brazil 鈥 caisson separator electrical submersible pumps - is working 鈥榦utstandingly' well according to the field's project manager. Jennifer Pallanich鈥
