In June, the Hydrone R started a six-month trial in Saipem鈥檚 underwater 鈥減lay park鈥 near Trieste, northeast Italy. Later in the year, or early next year, its FlatFish design is also expected to enter the water, ahead of deep-water trials in 2021鈥
In some cases, resident underwater vehicles may not have access to power, so alternative power sources may be needed.New Jersey, US, based Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has been a leading company in this area, working with Italian oil company Eni鈥
Sweden鈥檚 Saab Seaeye has been one of those driving the vehicle side of the subsea resident vehicle equation 鈥 for at least 10 years.The firm has some 50% of the world market of electric remote operated vehicles (ROV) and it has delivered more than 1鈥
The new discovery offshore Equatorial Guinea鈥檚 Block 1 by US-based exploration and production company Noble Energy puts the West African country on the road to reversing declining oil and gas output should the project be turned into a viable commercial venture鈥
The future of the oil field is digital.Qasem Al Kayoumi, ADNOC鈥檚 SVP, technical center, said all the company鈥檚 new field developments will rely on digital technology. Speaking at the Life 2019 Landmark Innovation Forum & Expo in Houston, he鈥
Blue Logic, based near Stavanger in Norway, is not the only firm producing inductive subsea connectors (WiSub, near Bergen is doing similar), but Blue Logic has been heavily involved in building a key piece of the infrastructure that will enable鈥
Finance 鈥 or at least project economics based on long-term commodity prices 鈥 appear to be factors limiting a surge in investments in floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) a new study by U.S.-based numbers cruncher, World Energy Reports, revealed Monday鈥
Using produced liquids in a wireless completionTendeka鈥檚 PulseEight re-deployable wireless completion systems have been deployed in a number of areas to carry out downhole functions. The PulseEight Ambient Valve has recognized safety incidents鈥
Global floating production services provider BW 云顶赌场老虎机 has confirmed a one-year extension for the lease and operation of the FPSO Petroleo Nautipa on the Etame field offshore Gabon for VAALCO Energy.BW 云顶赌场老虎机, which owns a fleet of 15 floating production鈥
It鈥檚 hard to nail down when it all started 鈥 perhaps when the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador opted for the Norwegian model of direct government ownership shares in its offshore oilfields.Or it might have started with Equinor鈥檚鈥
When oil and gas operators need to carry out workovers or plug and abandon a deepwater well, a primary concern is how much fatigue life remains in the wellhead.Wells from two decades ago were drilled and completed with rigs that may have been decommissioned鈥
Kenya鈥檚 offshore oil and gas sector has remained underexplored even as the country remains optimistic of making a breakthrough in the search for more hydrocarbons based on recent growth of its upstream operations.The agreement signed last July鈥
In July 2017, with overall debts totaling about $1 billion, Gregory Callimanopulus led Toisa Ltd was forced into selling off its entire fleet. What followed was one of the largest and most systematic selloffs in offshore history, and for the鈥
Canada has a well-established offshore history within the oil and gas sector, with the first offshore exploration carried out by Mobil in the Stable Island region in 1959. Today, the major areas of activity are within the Jeanne d鈥橝rc Basin鈥
While operators are in the business of producing oil and gas, their wells eventually produce sand. In addition to constricting the well鈥檚 oil and gas output, sand that reaches the topsides can damage critical equipment.Preventing sand production through completions is critical鈥
