Wood Group has been awarded a five-year contract with Hess Exploration & Production Malaysia. The operations and maintenance contract is to support Hess鈥 newbuild fixed and floating offshore facilities in the North Malay Basin development鈥
Audrey Leon speaks with Tom Adams, vice president, Power Business Development, at ABS Group, to find out how the firm is offering its inspection and quality assurance services to the offshore wind industry. Image from iStock鈥
North Sea intervention firm Altus Intervention has won a fixed term, five-year contract to provide well intervention services for Maersk Oil UK. Altus Intervention was awarded the contract for the provision of slickline services, coiled tubing services鈥
A sustained low oil price environment is a challenging one, with 'survival of the fittest' being an undeniable reality of the sector. Upstream exploration and production (E&P) operators, in the past two years, have scurried to re-evaluate their operational Business as Usual (BAU) practices鈥
A number of key contracts were awarded in 1H 2016 in Brazil, pointing to a recovery of the local oil and gas sector. The Polvo FPSO (right) while docked at Keppel FELS shipyard. Photo from Keppel鈥
Reducing drilling and development spend has largely been the focus of services and equipment providers in the Gulf of Mexico 鈥 with the aim of lowering costs at the most capital intensive period of asset lifecycles. Often overlooked,鈥
Former BP and Shell geologist Mike Shepherd says the North Sea demonstrates top in class oil recovery factors compared to the rest of the world, but could do better. BP鈥檚 Magnus platform.Photo from BP鈥
A new concept in well tools could see one-off tools built, run and left downhole to disintegrate. Elaine Maslin reports. A computer graphic of the FLI design. Images from Well-Sense Disintegrating鈥
Sparrows Group has been awarded a 20-month inspection services contract to cover Stena Drilling鈥檚 global fleet of drilling vessels. The agreement will see Sparrows Group deliver LOLER lifting gear surveys, potential dropped objects surveys鈥
Siemens Wind Power has contracted offshore marine and engineering consultancy Aqualis 云顶赌场老虎机 to provide a series of assessments for wind turbine service operations to be performed by a jackup vessel chartered by Siemens. The jackup鈥
Californian high-pressure valves firm BuTech is showcasing a new line of high-pressure relief valves at this week's OTC in Houston. BuTech鈥檚 new relief valves feature a state-of-the-art repeatable release design that minimizes the need for frequent recalibration鈥
Structural integrity monitoring should be a lifecycle tool and could make jackup moves safer. Meg Chesshyre reports from Oceanology International. Jackups. Photo by staff. A鈥
Earlier this year, Marathon Oil鈥檚 North Sea business was issued with an improvement notice after its failure to inspect the integrity of an 8in high-pressure pipe on its Brae Alpha facility. A failure in the pipe on 26 December 2016 resulted鈥
Wood Group has been awarded a five-year contract by Nexen, worth US$150 million. Extending a contract in place since April 2010, Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will continue to deliver operations, maintenance and technical support across Nexen鈥檚 North Sea offshore assets鈥
Despite the ongoing bribery investigations, Petrobras is ploughing ahead with new FPSOs. Pietro Ferreira, of the Energy Industries Council, outlines current contracting activity in Brazil and in Mexico. Ferreira鈥
