It’s a smaller, more focused exploration world as we start 2018. Elaine Maslin discusses the main themes for 2018 with Wood Mackenzie’s Andrew Latham (First published in the January 2018 OE, access full issue here). Deepwater is very…
AFGlobal has acquired Advanced Measurement (AMI), a provider of automation, controls and data management systems. AFGlobal says this acquisition enhances the company’s current upstream drilling, completion and production smart technology…
Oil Spill Response Ltd. (OSRL), Trendsetter Engineering and Halliburton have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for integrated subsea well-capping response solutions. With the MOU, the companies will create a strategic alliance for…
Wild Well Control purchased subsea capping equipment from Shell EP Wells Equipment Services BV. Wild Well’s WellCONTAINED capping stack located in Singapore. Image from Wild Well. The…
Trendsetter Engineering and Add Energy have been awarded a contract to supply engineering and access to Trendsetter’s patented Relief Well Injection Spool (RWIS) in support of an operators’ drilling campaign on a newly sanctioned field development…
Inflow control valves and in-well fiber-optics have given Nexen far greater visibility of what’s going in and out of their reservoirs on the Golden Eagle field. Elaine Maslin reports. Golden Eagle with the Safe Caledonia alongside…
The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) recognizes innovative technologies each year with the Spotlight on New Technology Award. This awards program is exclusively for OTC exhibitors and showcases the latest and most advanced technologies that are leading the industry into the future…
Russia's Rosneft has made a gas condensate discovery named Wild Orchid offshore Vietnam. The well was drilled using the Hakuryu-5 semisubmersible drilling rig during Q2 this year, operated by RN-Vietnam, in Block 06.1. Volume of reserves…
In advance of OE’s 2016 Deepwater Intervention Forum, held in Galveston, Texas, Audrey Leon discusses the next game-changing technologies with the forum’s board members. The Helix Well Enhancer…
In advance of the Deepwater Intervention Forum this 9-11 August 2016, Jerry Lee reports on a new approach to riserless plug and abandonment carried out by Wild Well Control in the US Gulf of Mexico. PA Tool component description and diagram…
Heerema Marine Contractor's Thialf heavy lift vessel lifted the new subsea pump control module (PCM) onto Shell's Draugen platform offshore Norway late last month. The 220-tonne control module is the topside part of the subsea pump system…
Oilfield services firm Proserv has won a multi-million dollar contract from Apache Corp for work on the UK Continental Shelf. Proserv will supply a subsea control system and associated topside and subsea interface equipment for use on the new Callater wells south of the Beryl Alpha platform…
Weatherford’s Snorre Lutnes examines managed pressure drilling applications across key regions. MPD deployment. Images from Weatherford. Once reserved as a last resort for wells defined as undrillable…
Wild Well Control’s DeepRange tool, in conjunction with its 7Series riserless intervention system, has successfully performed full plug and abandonment operations on four subsea wells in the Gulf of Mexico. These wells are a part of a larger…
Nearly six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the US Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has revealed final well control regulations designed to reduce future risks of a devastating offshore oil or gas blowout…
