2017 became the year that the oil and gas industry embraced robotics. Elaine Maslin reports on initiatives in the North Sea (first published in the January 2018 OE, access the full issue here). While the industry has long been using autonomous underwater systems and remotely operated tooling…
Aberdeen's Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is to invest US$1.76 million (£1.3 million) in four projects aimed at developing new plugging and abandonment (P&A) technologies. BiSN, Strathclyde University, Heriot-Watt University and Baker…
EnQuest COO and executive director Neil McCulloch is stepping down today from his posts, by mutual agreement, according to the UK independent operator. In his place, Faysal Hamza has been appointed Interim Head of North Sea, and Bob Davenport has been appointed Managing Director…
Changing production regimes over the life of a field can prove to be a flow measurement challenge. NEL's Neil Bowman looks at the challenges. A turbine meter. Image from NEL. As fields mature…
Varel UK has signed a collaborative project with the University of Aberdeen to design and develop a new drill bit, which addresses the unique challenges of drilling in Resonance Enhanced Drilling (RED) mode. Resonance Enhanced Drilling…
Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University Institute of Petroleum Engineering has signed a five-year partnership agreement with Total. Worth at least US3.2 million (£2.5 million), the agreement was signed by Elisabeth Proust, managing director…
The University of Houston (UH) has named Phaneendra Kondapi as founding director of engineering programs at the University of Houston at Katy. Image of Kondapi, from UH. Kondapi…
The UK's Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) and Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) have joined forces to fund and support the development of innovations which could reduce costs, raise production efficiency, and improve safety and environmental performance…
The UK's Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) has helped to secure a plasma generator for the University of Aberdeen thanks to a donation from Saudi Aramco. Through its Aberdeen Technology Office, which specializes in upstream research and technology…
ExxonMobil has elected Susan K. Avery to its board of directors, effective 1 February 2017. Avery, an atmospheric scientist, is the former president and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Avery’s leadership experience in multiple academic and scientific organizations…
Steve Hall is to replace Bob Allwood as CEO of the Society of Underwater Technology (SUT) this April, following Allwood's retirement after seven years in the post. Hall has been chairman of the SUT's Education and Training Committee for…
Subsea services firm N-Sea and the University of Strathclyde’s Institute of Sensors Signals and Communications at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering have secured funding from the Data Lab Innovation Centre for a research project to automate subsea pipeline inspection…
Scientists at the University of Strathclyde have secured funding for a four-year project to study the ability of complex rock strata beneath the North Sea to trap carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) securely. Their findings will help to provide…
A Northumberland-based marine engineer has outlined plans for a new submersible that could change the way oil platforms are transported back to shore for decommissioning. Joe Glass from Rothbury has joined forces with Seaways Engineering International as Managing Director (UK)…
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has opened the Norwegian Ocean Laboratory at Marineholmen in Bergen. The laboratory will host world-class research infrastructure and facilitate collaborative cross-border technology development for ocean research…
