SkyHook “blimp” to speed Arctic projectsJul 23, 2008The Canadian supply chain has come up with a novel way to speed the development of ...
Four-Year Global Software LOIJun 27, 2008Technology solutions provider to the upstream oil and gas industry, Roxar ASA, has announced the signing of an LOI for a four-year global software contract for the full suite of its reservoir modeling solution...
Bateman Litwin awarded €75 million EPC contract by Gaz de FranceJun 16, 2008Bateman Litwin N.V. says that its wholly-owned subsidiary Litwin SA has been awarded, as part of a consortium, an engineering construction and procurement (EPC) contract
FLEX signs second offshore LNG pactJun 11, 2008U.K.-based explorer and producer Rift Oil and Oslo-listed FLEX LNG Ltd. have agreed to develop a floating liquefaction project ...
Stern: world emissions treaty in 2009Jun 6, 2008Nicholas Stern — the economics professor whose climate-change report earned him an English knighthood — has said he ...
DNV hints at sub-sea well “standard”Jun 5, 2008Norwegian classification society Det Norske Veritas is preparing to submit a risk analysis for subsea wellheads which could change ...
Light-well intervention driving ROV’sJun 5, 2008The skilled worker gap created by the oil industry’s rapid expansion since $20-a-barrel oil has reached the ROV business, just as ...
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 ...
Bjørge marks subsea leak-tech orderMay 29, 2008Sub-sea supplier FMC Technologies will accept delivery of Norwegian pump and fire-fighting outfit Bjørge’s Naxys technology for leak-detection ...
Gassco learning to expand capacityApr 25, 2008New and more precise knowledge acquired by operator Gassco about friction and capacity in Norway’s gas pipelines will permit greater deliveries to Europe through the network.
StatoilHydro kicks off compressor testingApr 22, 2008More than 50 guests turned out for the start of the world’s first full-scale subsea compression test at StatoilHydro’s Kårstø Laboratory (K-lab) at the Kårstø gas processing plant in western Norway on 21 April.
Scientists unlock energy Holy GrailApr 17, 2008Canadian and Japanese researchers appear to have unlocked the Holy Grail of energy supply after achieving test flows from a methane gas hydrate ...
DOF LNG vessel tops StatoilHydro signingsMar 11, 2008Norway-based offshore supply ship company DOF Management will charter a first platform supply vessel powered by liquefied-natural-gas, or LNG, to the Nordic country’s oil champ StatoilHydro, which on Tuesday hired four platform supply vessels for some three billion kroner.
CNR platform gets XPatchMar 7, 2008TIW (UK) Ltd has announced that it has successfully installed its first XPatch Expandable Casing Patch system in the UKCS.
Expro, Aker Oilfield form intervention pactFeb 5, 2008Scotland-based sub-sea tools provider Expro International Group and Norway-based counterpart Aker Oilfield Services Ltd have agreed to jointly market the one’s well-intervention vessels and the others riserless well-intervention kit.
Airbus makes historic "biofuels" flightFeb 1, 2008An super-jumbo of aircraft maker Airbus A380 flew a first-ever flight on Friday of a Shell-made, natural-gas-based synthetic jet fuel, now part of the supermajor’s gas-to-liquids offering, at least for research.
Seadrill signals “blow-back” at Ormen LangeJan 29, 2008A Seadrill drillship at Norway’s giant Ormen Lange gas field has suffered “blowback” damage while trying to disconnect from a well in last week’s severe North Sea weather, the drilling contractor has announced.
Sub-Atlantic ROV engaged in munitions sweep along Baltic Sea pipeline routeJan 22, 2008A Sub-Atlantic Comanche ROV is being used to hunt for unexploded chemical and conventional munitions near the Nord Stream pipeline route in what is thought to be the most extensive survey of a defined path through the Baltic Sea.
Wood Group kit to help BP close EasingtonDec 6, 2007Supermajor BP is investing $250 million in new gas-compression facilities at the Dimlington Onshore Compression & Terminal Integration Project, where new equipment will help cut pipeline pressure between offshore platforms enough to ramp-up flows.
"Old" Aker Kvaerner pumps give BP deepwater recordDec 5, 2007BP has announced a start-up of the world’s deepest, sub-sea, multi-phase pump at its King gas field facilities in the Gulf of Mexico, in a breakthrough for an old concept set to find new uses extending the field lives of deepwater fields.
StatoilHydro stung by flare reportNov 26, 2007The Norwegian Pollution Control Authority has cautioned StatoilHydro over higher-than-expected emissions from its liquefied natural gas project, Hammerfest LNG, near the North Cape.
Star, EnCore eye $2.4B UK gas storageNov 23, 2007Two offshore platforms for gas compression, a 200 kilometre pipeline and a terminal at Bacton are the backbone of a newly feasible plan to make the UK-sector Esmon and Gordon fields into the Britain’s biggest gas storage site.
GdF well “event” halves Minke flowsNov 9, 2007U.K. independent Faroe Petroleum warned Friday that Gaz de France, operator of the Minke gas-producing field, has reported “an event” in a well that has curbed flows from the reservoir by half, it was understood Friday.
Total buoy hints at sub-sea Arctic compressionOct 12, 2007Total may have sealed its 25 percent stake in the company developing the Shtokman gas field in the Russian Barents with a remote control buoy, judging by slides seen at the Deep Offshore Technology conference in Stavanger.
By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI
