Vietsovpetro expands use of Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise
May 7, 2009
Vietsovpetro (VSP), a Vietnamese-Russian joint venture focused on the production and exploration of oil and gas as well as the design, assembly and repair of offshore facilities

Reservoir Group brings new coring capability to Gulf of Mexico
May 7, 2009
Reservoir Group is bringing its coring capability to the Gulf of Mexico.

DNV developing best practices for Arctic offshore structures
May 7, 2009
In order to improve existing industry guidelines for the safe design of both fixed and floating structures in Arctic offshore regions, DNV is kicking off a new joint industry project.

Rockwell Automation offers asset management solutions for O&G industry
May 7, 2009
Rockwell Automation offers a comprehensive portfolio of innovative Asset Performance Management solutions designed to meet the changing needs of today’s oil and gas companies.

Expro to show key technologies at OTC 09
May 5, 2009
Expro will show some of its latest and innovative technologies at this year’s Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.

Ivanhoe successfully processes Athabasca bitumen at its feedstock test facility in Texas
May 5, 2009
Dr. Michael A. Silverman, Executive Vice President, Technology, of Ivanhoe Energy says that Ivanhoe Energy has successfully processed Athabasca bitumen at

Obama budget cuts oil, gas R&D
Apr 30, 2009
U.S. deepwater oil and gas research and development will be cut by $20 million dollars, while $40 million in oil company fees will be added to American ...
By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI

TDW Offshore develops innovative pipeline repair solution for StatoilHydro
Apr 27, 2009
TDW Offshore Services has successfully designed and delivered a customized pipeline repair solution for StatoilHydro.

Fugro and EMGS enter into marine EM strategic alliance
Apr 27, 2009
Fugro N.V. (Fugro) has entered into a global cooperation agreement with Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS), the market leader in marine electromagnetic (EM) imaging.

Rocksource buys into survey brain’s start-up
Apr 21, 2009
Houston-based survey-tech-driven oil company Rocksource will pay $5 million to have a piece of the the brainy enterprise ...

TGS adds US production data to online well data collection
Apr 16, 2009
TGS has added Production Data from nine key Rocky Mountain states to its well database, the first phase in a national rollout to be completed during 2009.

Wood Group division opens training facility in Texas
Apr 16, 2009
Wood Group Logging Services, part of international energy services company John Wood Group has opened a new 2.5-acre facility in Weimar, Texas,

VMAX launches next generation subsea simulator
Apr 15, 2009
Subsea simulation software company VMAX Technologies Inc, part of the Triton Group, has raised the bar for oil and gas field visualization technologies with

ONS 2010: industry bookings setting record
Apr 2, 2009
Bookings of space by companies hoping to exhibit their work at Norway’s big oil and gas tradeshow and conference have ...

Tekla, HGG link software, tubular designs
Apr 1, 2009
Builders of tubular structures got a boost this week with the release of Finnish company Tekla and Dutch outfit HGG's software solution for tubular profiles.

Unbridled performs acid stimulation at Elkton formation in Canadian Chambers play
Mar 31, 2009
Unbridled Energy Corporation has recently performed a large acid stimulation in the Elkton formation in its 16-21 well in the Chambers play, northwest of Calgary,

Aker, Well Processing team up to deliver subsea water treatment and injection
Mar 30, 2009
Aker Solutions and Well Processing AS have signed a cooperation agreement to bring a new technology offering onto the marketplace.

StatoilHydro hands $50M high-pressure gig to Aker Solutions
Mar 30, 2009
Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro has awarded Norway-based supplier-contractor Aker Solutions the 330-million-kroner ($49.4 million) job of delivering ...

Sevan grows Goliat keep by $23M
Mar 26, 2009
Italy-based oil company Eni’s Norwegian business has signed up “round-rig” maker Sevan Marine to a contract for work beyond the front-end engineering of the floating production ...

CNL signs partnership agreement with industrial security systems
Mar 25, 2009
CNL, the Integrated Situational Management software, has signed a partnership agreement with Industrial Security Systems (ISS), an established provider

Noble Denton, BP, to participate in ultra-deepwater research at Cambridge
Mar 25, 2009
Noble Denton is funding a three-year research program at the University of Cambridge, to consider effective modeling for ultra-deepwater mooring and riser

Oil sands companies pressured to upgrade
Mar 23, 2009
Canadian regulators in oil province Alberta appear to have forced oil sands players to build bitumen upgraders on their Fort Hills project leases by making ...

Robot fish to find oil, gas leaks
Mar 20, 2009
Robot fish could soon be patrolling offshore zones suspected of leaking hydrocarbons, if the brainchild of U.K. scientists succeeds in a test release of ...
By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI

Roxar revels in suite sale
Mar 20, 2009
Norway-based reservoir flow expert Roxar has won a 10-million-kroner ($1.6 million) software contract with an unnamed Middle Eastern client enamoured by ...