The North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC), on behalf of the North Caspian Sea PSA consortium, has said the first well was opened and the initial volumes of oil are being produced from the Kashagan field. The first phase of production is from eight wells on an artificial island complex鈥
The National Hyperbaric Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland has recently invested in an 鈥楨nvironmental Testing Facility鈥 (ETF). The new, large environmental test laboratory has been installed to simulate conditions down to -25° C for testing offshore equipment鈥
Wood Group has won new contracts in India worth more than US$10 million. Wood Group GTS has secured two contracts to supply its EcoValue gas turbine compressor water-wash systems. The first order is to supply the EcoValue technology,鈥
Maritime Developments (MDL) has launched a new portable vertical lay system (VLS) for the deployment and retrieval for subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines. The system is road transportable; can be assembled on the quayside; can be鈥
Technip has joined forces with South African energy and chemicals firm Sasol to offer front-end engineering services on future Sasol gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects. The new alliance will also enable Technip to be part of the execution of GTL projects with Sasol鈥
Kongsberg Maritime has officially renamed GlobalSim Inc., its wholly owned onshore and offshore crane simulator subsidiary, to Kongsberg GlobalSim Inc. The name change is part of GlobalSim鈥檚 ongoing incorporation into Kongsberg Maritime鈥檚 corporate structure鈥
St. Louis, Missouri-based Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson, acquired Groveley Detection Ltd., a leading innovator and developer of ultrasonic gas leak detection solutions for both offshore and onshore oil and gas installations鈥
Norway's PG Marine Group is to provide six of its PG-MACS tanks for a newbuild dual-fuel platform supply vessel (PSV). The vessel, to be built at the Remontowa Shipyward, Romania, will be operated by Siem 云顶赌场老虎机 on long term charter to Norske Shell鈥
North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) began work to start production of Kashagan field in the Caspian Sea. The first phase will see production from eight wells on an artificial island complex. Wells, pipelines, and the Bolashak Onshore Processing facility have been completed鈥
AGR Enhanced Drilling, entered into a NOK120m (USD20m) Letter of Intent (LOI) with Statoil to deliver an EC-Drill® managed pressure drilling (MPD) system. The EC-Drill® system combines control system capability, enhanced riser integration and multiple other features鈥
Baker Hughes Inc. has introduced the Baker Hughes Well Count, a new index that provides key U.S. onshore well count data. The proprietary count will be available on a quarterly basis. The Baker Hughes Well Count is a natural extension of the Baker Hughes Rig Count鈥
Statoil used the world鈥檚 second largest crane vessel, Saipem 7000, to lift and transport the 10,600-ton topsides module from Aibel鈥檚 shipyard in Haugesund, Norway on Wednesday, 17 July. Transit to the Gudrun field, in license area PL025 of the Norwegian North Sea鈥
Petrobras leads subsea pumping development to overcome deepwater production problems Subsea boosting has evolved since the first subsea multiphase pump was installed, in 1994, by Shell at Draugen field in the Norwegian Sea. That pump鈥
Bowtech Products Ltd, a global market leader in subsea vision systems, announced on 9 July 2013 that it delivered a £100,000 Chain Stopper Monitoring System to SBM 云顶赌场老虎机, to monitor the chain stoppers during installation of the BP Quad 204 Turret Mooring System (TMS)鈥
Norway's Kongsberg secured contracts with China's CIMC Yantai Raffles and South Korea's STX 云顶赌场老虎机 & Shipbuilding for the supply of dynamic positioning (DP), automation, new generation safety system, integrated navigation, hydroacoustic positioning鈥
