Wood Group chair shows arctic faithJan 14, 2009UK-based contractor Wood Group will pay $500,000 to set up an arctic engineering program at the 17,000-strong Memorial University in ...
Marathon finds gas in new Oklahoma shale playJan 7, 2009Marathon Oil Corp. announced today that it has participated in a successful step-out discovery well on the Brickyard prospect, located in the northeast area of the Anadarko Basin, targeting the Woodford Shale resource play in Canadian County, Oklahoma.
Questerre taps into “fertile” shaleJan 7, 2009Calgary-based shale gas developer Questerre Energy Corp. said Wednesday its first two horizontal wells through the fertile Lowlands of Canada’s French province of Quebec were flowing ...
UK hails academics for “carbon pebbles”Jan 5, 2009An device that turns contaminated soil into harmless material has turned heads in the United Kingdom, a country now seen as saving its honors for those helping the environment ...
Norway: R&D spend outdoes EuropeNov 24, 2008The money Norwegian companies spend on R&D has risen to 38 billion kroner ($5.38 billion), or up 15 percent since the last time companies were surveyed back in ...
Oil companies “waste” 60% of wells: reportOct 17, 2008Some 60 percent of the oilwells abandoned when an oil company says it has “temporarily abandoned a well” never return to oil company planning, judging ...
AGR, oil companies mark mud milestoneOct 13, 2008BP, Shell, AGR Drilling Services and the Norwegian Research Council have successfully tested a deepwater riserless mud-recovery system, results which could mark a major ...
ExxonMobil, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to develop advanced gasification technologyOct 7, 2008ExxonMobil has entered into an agreement with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to develop next-generation technology to convert coal, coke or biomass to synthesis gas
Yokogawa reels in automation ally RovsingSep 29, 2008Oilfield automation provider Yokogawa has formed a partneship with Denmark-based Rovsing Dynamics to bring 20 years of “intimate” heavy ...
Gold stops search in “Palaeozoic blind”Sep 23, 2008Surveying to drill below the pre-historic Tertiary strata and into the great “Palaeozoic blind” has proved too much for the Russian technology ...
Blue Energy reports significant gas bearing coal from Sapphire #1Sep 22, 2008Blue Energy Limited declares the successful completion of the Sapphire #1 Core Well which intercepted 71 metres of gross potential pay confirming the presence of a significant amount of gas bearing coal.
Northern Offshore moves to "integrate" rigsSep 17, 2008Rig owner Northern Offshore Ltd. has put in an order with management software maker Star Information Systems to put the supplier’s integrated ...
Oil industry slow to “integrate” operationsSep 17, 2008The use of integrated, heavily automated and digitized operations to remotely run and monitor offshore oilfields has pervaded just one percent of ...
Shell: oilfield upgrades include “anti-virus”Sep 17, 2008Oil companies must update their “integrated operations” systems for the remote management of oilfield plant as often as “we update our home PCs”, complete with virus checks, and the bevy of IT is making ...
Norway PM: Brazil possibilities “fantastic”Sep 15, 2008The Norwegian supplier-contractor build-up in Brazil continues apace and the South American country is fast-becoming a place of ...
UTC 2008 readies receptionJun 2, 2008Full-scale testing of a sub-sea pump destined for Murphy Oil’s Azurite project in West Africa is the highlight of one of two “warm-up” field ...
