Drilling in HoustonInternational oil services group Aker Solutions is about to open North America's most advanced drilling equipment simulator in Houston, Texas. The simulator will be available to rig operators with the objective of making offshore drilling operations safer and more cost effective. Full text |
McDermott and Trelleborg develop innovative new clamp to improve diver safety
Osiris Marine invest £380k in new technology
Jee completes carbon capture and storage conceptual design for major pipeline transporter
UK debut for Open Hole Roller Bogie technology
C-Tecnics introduce mini camera
Savante launch full service subsea laser scanning, measurement and inspection services
A physical parameter measurement cable for subsea application
New Product to Extend Life of Subsea Assets
Tentec takes the Complexity out of Bolt Tightening Calculations
Schlumberger Introduces New Multipole Sonic-While-Drilling Service
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Halliburton has announced the newest addition to its suite of perforating technologies, designed to enable better well completions and provide operators with access to reservoir targets that are beyond the limits of conventional high pressure technology. Full text
An innovative, ABB-designed system that uses an subsea cable to connect a pump motor on the floor of the North Sea to a frequency converter on an oil platform 31 kilometers away has passed a string test for the Tyrihans oil field, off the coast of Norway. Full text
AMEC has announced that AMEC Paragon now provides clients with ASD Global’s OptiPlant 3D modeling software for front-end engineering design (FEED), pre-FEED and concept estimating. The use of the software adds value by streamlining engineering resources and automating the FEED work process, improving concept estimates and overall project execution for clients. Full text
About half of the oil in the ocean bubbles up naturally from the seafloor, with Earth giving it up freely like it was of no value. Likewise, NASA satellites collect thousands of images and 1.5 terrabytes of data every year, but some of it gets passed over because no one thinks there is a use for it. Full text
PGS experience with the GeoStreamer® demonstrates the power of dual-sensor acquisition and processing over a large gas field on the North West Shelf (NWS) of Australia. Data acquired in a spatially-coincident manner with conventional streamer data demonstrate a four to five-fold boost in the low frequency signal content, about twice the high frequency signal content. Full text
Kongsberg Maritime Ltd have launched a new pan & tilt unit and several underwater camera lamps at Subsea 09. These products will also be shown at Underwater Intervention 2009 and Ocean Business 2009. As the leading underwater camera specialist the company is dedicated to providing high quality accessories to ensure users can get the best results from its own market leading cameras. Full text
Roxar ASA (Oslo Børs: ROX), a technology solutions provider to the upstream oil and gas industry, today announced the launch of its third generation multiphase meter - the Roxar Multiphase meter 2600 based on its new Zector Technology.
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Keppel O&M is the only shipyard group in the world with in-house deepwater semi design capabilities. Its DSSTM Series of semis are the most technically advanced deepwater drilling rigs to be designed and completed by Singapore to date. Full text
Samson’s DeepCool™ Technology significantly increases performance in operations where cyclic bending over sheaves is an issue. As exploration and production moves into increasingly deeper waters, the challenges of subsea equipment installations, anchor handling, and pipe laying increase proportionately. Full text
Cecon has finalized the detail engineering of the Pipe Lay Ramp for one of the most versatile systems in the industry. Flexible pipes and rigid pipe will be deployed through the same pipe lay ramp. The main advantage however is that the system offers both J-lay and reel-lay capabilities for laying rigid pipes. Full text