Oil major Shell has launched a 60-day public consultation on its plans for decommissioning the Brent field facilities in the North Sea. The huge engineering project will see the first significant use of Allseas' Pioneering Spirit heavy lift vessel…
Jerry Lee examines Trendsetter Engineering’s Tether BOP system, which aims to curb fatigue and improve wellhead performance. Close-up of a pile top assembly. Images from Trendsetter Engineering…
In this video, Exxon shows a timelapse video of the construction of the Hebron gravity based structure (GBS), which took about five years to build. Exxon's Hebron heavy oil project off Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, sits in the Jeanne d’Arc basin about 350km southeast of St…
French geoscience firm CGG has been awarded an extensive multi-client program by the Instituto Nacional de Petroleo (INP) to acquire seismic data offshore Mozambique. The multi-survey program is designed to improve industry insight into…
Siemens is set to build a wind project offshore Denmark with innovative foundations and cable systems, the company said today (20 September). Four wind turbines and related equipment take a large step into the future of offshore wind…
Cubility, a provider of solids control solutions, has launched CubeLink, a technology that aims to improve the transportation of drilling waste. CubeLink transports drilling waste directly from shale shakers or Cubility’s own MudCube…
Following a mechanical error, Santos has completed drilling the AAL-4XST1 appraisal well in the Northwest Natuna permit area, offshore Indonesia. Map from AWE. The joint venture…
Oil major Shell has set out its plans for decommissioning the Brent field facilities in the UK North Sea, including leaving its foundations in place. The firm, which has already spent 10 years working on decommissioning the four platforms…
TGS has started the Northwest Shelf Renaissance 2D seismic survey offshore North West Australia. The survey consists of approximately 8000km of long offset, broadband 2D seismic data as well as magnetic and gravity data. The survey is…
Work has started on a UK offshore wind farm which will be the first to use 66kV cables and the first in the UK to use gravity based foundations. Onshore construction work has started on the project, EDF Energy Renewables' Blyth wind farm…
Deck machinery firm ACE Winches has been awarded a six-figure contract in support of a project to connect the Hebron gravity based structure (GBS) with its topsides. The project will see ACE Winches supply hydraulic drum winch packages for the deep water Hebron oil field…
In this video, Statoil shows still drilling at its Statfjord area, offshore Norway. Statfjord is one of the oldest producing fields on the Norwegian continental shelf, and the largest oil discovery in the North Sea. The field…
Two Namibia focused explorers have been granted permission to move into their next phases of exploration on blocks offshore Namibia by the country's authorities. Eco Atlantic has been allowed to move forward on licenses PEL 030 (Cooper Block)…
Bell Geospace’s Houston team is being expanded in response to increased activity in their specialist services. As well as a number of in-house support staff, Richard Alan Morgan has joined the company as senior geoscientist. Morgan has…
Mexico’s Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) authorized CGG to commence a multi-client airborne gravity and magnetic survey offshore Mexico, which will include the acquisition of approximately 200,000km over six areas across the Mexican Gulf of Mexico…
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