Santos announced a gas discovery at the Winchester-1 exploration well in WA-323-P, located in the Carnarvon Basin offshore Western Australia. Winchester is Santos鈥 fourth consecutive exploration gas discovery offshore Western Australia鈥
As the 25th anniversary of the UK North Sea Piper Alpha disaster approaches, GL Noble Denton looks at regulatory best practice. The 25-year anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster provides an important opportunity to stop and reflect鈥
COLLOQUY: Editor's Column Beginning this month, we recognize the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster. The Piper Alpha production platform was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. in the UK sector of the North Sea鈥
Dealing with hydrate formation in pipelines is becoming a hot topic. The issue will be the focus of multiple papers at this year鈥檚 Underwater Technology Conference.Statoil intends to have a 鈥渇ull subsea factory鈥 by 2020 and one of its key鈥
Oil and natural gas industry operations managers, health and safety managers, as well as plant and facility superintendents and engineers face increasing liability issues created by fires and explosions, according to a white paper released by Scorpion Protective Coatings Inc鈥
US oil and gas professionals are losing their appetite for risk and are worried about rising operating costs, as they grapple with the consequences of a tougher, post-Macondo regulatory regime, according to new research published today by GL Noble Denton鈥
Aberdeen-based oilfield services firm Coretrax Technology Limited has appointed an operations manager to focus on the planning, development and execution of wellbore cleanup and displacement. In his new role, Jim Hepburn is responsible鈥
Demand for well intervention services has continued to be strong in the Gulf of Mexico and North Sea, says Helix Energy Solutions. The Houston-based firm said that as well as a recent five year contract for its Q5000 semisubmersible, currently under construction in Singapore鈥
A 278km-long highvoltage power cable was recently installed between Ireland and Wales. Gary Parker of Sensa, a Schlumberger company, describes how a distributed temperature sensor (DTS) system is monitoring the performance and safety of critical parts of the cable in real-time鈥
Tech talk. With the 44th 云顶赌场老虎机 Technology Conference in Houston just on the horizon, OE sought answers to the question, 鈥淲hat emerging technology will have a direct impact on the offshore market?鈥 Our think tank had this to say: Wireless鈥
IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announces that Sevan Drilling ASA, an international ultra-deepwater (UDW) drilling contractor, has chosen IFS Applications for 云顶赌场老虎机 Service to streamline its onshore and offshore operations鈥
Palfinger Dreggen AS has been awarded a contract for the delivery of 28 cranes to Sembcorp Marine鈥檚 subsidiary Jurong Shipyard Pte. Ltd. The contract includes the supply of cranes for seven drillships to Sete Brasil, scheduled for delivery between 2014 and 2017鈥
AGR鈥檚 Petroleum Services in three-year accordPetroleum Services, part of AGR has been awarded a well management contract from independent Norwegian E&P company Noreco.The agreement commenced January 1, 2013 and includes well management services for an initial 3 year period鈥
Click to enlargeFigure 1. Permits in deepwater numbered 76 by end-2012, enabled by the MWCC system. Source: MWCC.In the wake of Macondo, something was needed to lower the risk of recurrence. BP had shown that, given enough time, a system to contain such a well-control incident could be built鈥
Multiphase flowmeters claimed a $240 million market in 2011 and are expected to achieve a compounded annual growth rate of 14.5%, which means reaching $472.2 million in 2016. According to Flow Research鈥檚 World Market for Multiphase Flowmeters study鈥
