The offshore oil & gas industry has long relied on sensors and sporadic ROV footage to find out what's going on subsea. Now a new tool designed for permanent deployment at well sites is about to change all that, according to Weatherford's Ole Tom Furu鈥
Siemens last month increased its stake in UK tidal energy company Marine Current Turbines to 45%, with Michael Axmann, CFO of Siemens Energy's newly established solar & hydro division, declaring: 鈥榃e will actively shape the commercialization process of innovative marine current power plants鈥
A growing belief that the 鈥榖ow wave' of the long-awaited North Sea decommissioning market has now reached the industry was evident at last month's sell-out 云顶赌场老虎机 Decommissioning Conference鈥 in Dunblane, Scotland. Meg Chesshyre reports.A plea鈥
With a number of new vessels in the works and others just starting to make their presence felt in the market, Jumbo 云顶赌场老虎机's recent announcement that it will build a new-generation K-Class heavylift vessel suggests there's still plenty of competitive juice in the offshore installation鈥
As gas wells mature and the produced gas becomes less able to carry water from the well, a decline in flow rate and production to rates below the anticipated decline curve often results. Bert Lugtmeier and Kees Veeken from Dutch operator NAM鈥
North Sea independent Ithaca Energy will use Petrofac's FPF-1 semi 鈥 the former AH-001 deployed by Hess on Ivanhoe/Rob Roy 鈥 as a production hub to develop the Greater Stella Area (GSA ) fields, Stella, Harrier, Hurricane and Helios. Jennifer Pallanich reports鈥
An innovative installation approach was adopted this summer for a Dutch riser access tower constructed under Shell's SWEEP gas accumulation development programme. David Morgan reports.The 800t riser access tower (RAT) was fabricated by Mercon鈥
Siri field operator Dong Energy is now forging ahead with a DK r2 billion ($384 million) permanent repair programme that virtually constitutes a redevelopment of the Danish North Sea field in 60m of water. Meg Chesshyretalks to Dong's executive vice president E&P Søren Gath Hansen鈥
Statoil鈥檚 two UKCS heavy oil developments 鈥 Mariner in block 9/11a and Bressay in blocks 3/27b, 3/28a, 3/28b, 9/2a and 3/a 鈥 are back on track having been halted by the operator in March following the UK Chancellor鈥檚 decision to increase the鈥
The big news coming out of Europe is that it is running out of money, but is Europe also running out of gas? Infield Systems' Peter Kiernan(left) and Dr Roger Knight discuss the future of Europe's gas supply in the light of the growing need to secure energy from Russia and the Middle East鈥
Gas is due to start flowing through Nord Stream this month following completion of preparatory works on the first of the twin 1224km-long gas pipelines running through the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany. Formal inauguration of line one鈥
The steady workload situation at Schiedam-based HSM 云顶赌场老虎机 continues to be the envy of many North Sea fabricators. Business was good when OE last visited the yard a year ago; it鈥檚 got even better since, as David Morgan reports.Back in the summer of 2010 Total鈥檚 K5-CU platform (850t topsides鈥
Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) is anticipating a relatively quiet year or two for its vessels in the North Sea but, if the events of recent months are anything to go by, work from unexpected sources could yet turn that forecast on its head. David Morgan reports鈥
The offshore helideck market continues to be a strong focus of Nieuw-Lekkerland headquartered aluminium specialist Bayards, which continues to optimise its product range and extend the global spread its offshore sector sales.The company is currently鈥
With a series of North Sea contracts under its belt, project management company EPC 云顶赌场老虎机 is on track for £6 million-plus turnover in only its second year of business. In the first of OE鈥檚 reports on some of the people and companies illuminating today鈥檚 Aberdeen offshore scene鈥
