The fast-growing UK subsea sector, which supports 60,000 jobs, is in for two years of tough times. An Infield report showed subsea tree orders, a major indicator of subsea activity, is expected to fall by nearly 30% between 2014-2019…
Offshore oil and gas and renewables companies have just days left to enter the 2015 Offshore Achievement Awards and be recognized with the brightest and best industry talent. The deadline for the awards, organized and hosted by the Society…
The UK's recently launched National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI) has appointed a chairman and project director and a board. Peter Blake, has taken up the role of chairman of NSRI and Dr Gordon Drummond has joined as project director…
New DNV GL guidelines and practices are ensuring safe connection of offshore wind to the transmission grid. As offshore wind farms are being built farther from the coast and more offshore oil and gas installations are powered from shore…
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section has appointed Ross Lowdon (pictured) as chairman. Lowdon takes over from Anthony Onukwu and will hold the chairmanship until September 2015. Read more: Anthony Onukwu reflects on 40 years' of SPE Aberdeen…
John Wishart joins Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) as its new chairman on 1 August 2014 to lead the board of directors and provide guidance for its strategic direction. Wishart is group director for Lloyd’s Register Energy and will…
The first meeting of a new knowledge-sharing forum on subsea integrity management practice will take place in Houston during OTC week. The SURF IM Network is being led by Wood Group Kenny with support from the Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) and 13 operating companies…
Viper Subsea has signed a joint industry project (JIP) agreement with energy giants BP and Total to further develop its Subsea Line Insulation Monitoring (V-SLIM) technology for identifying and locating cable and connector faults in remote subsea electrical distribution systems…
ITF, the Industry Technology Facilitator, has started a joint industry pptoject (JIP) with Tullow Oil to establish a comprehensive, global wells and completions reliability database and is urging more operators to join the project. The…
Energistics, the upstream oil and gas standards consortium, and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), the international society of applied geophysics, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore joint development opportunities…
Chevron Energy Technology Company and GE Oil & Gas have formed a technology alliance to develop and commercialize technologies for the oil and gas industry. TheChevron GE Technology Alliance will build on existingcollaboration between…
A helping hand. When it comes to new technology, OE asked: “What role should national governments have in funding research and development in the oil and gas industry?” Research and development is key to competition…
“Establishing a successful rig consortium is a roller-coaster process”, Geir Kristian Pedersen, managing director of Rig Management Norway (RMG), said at the keynote session Planning for Long Term Drilling yesterday. Key factors in building a consortia are being co-operative…
During the last 10 years, the oil and gas industry has seen significant developments in seismic acquisition strategies, pushing the boundaries imposed by the technical limits of conventional 3D marine acquisition using narrow-azimuth towed streamers…
Standardization—sounds promising, but what exactly should be standardized and would it hinder innovation? On the opening day of Bergen’s Underwater Technology Conference (UTC) 2013, Kristian Siem, made a striking remark. The chairman…
