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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SUBSEA saturation diving, at depths down to 1000 feet (300 meters) below the surface, tests equipment and men to the limit. To protect divers from the cold in the diving bell, manufacturers Unique LLC turned to Trelleborg Offshore for an innovative syntactic foam insulation solution. Full text
BJ Services announced the introduction of the GEMINI™ system, a new range of combo tools that provide caliper, metal loss and mapping information in a single tool. In response to customer demand, BJ Services’ pipeline inspection services group embarked on an ambitious campaign to develop and deploy the GEMINI combo tools, integrating existing technology and customer benefits found in the current fleet of GEOPIG™ and VECTRA™ tools. Full text
Position feedback devices are commonly implemented in hydraulic applications for monitoring the performance accuracy of actuators and cylinders to improve operational efficiencies. The environment in which the embedded sensor must survive can be problematic. The hydraulic fluid is under high pressures and temperatures and the actuators and cylinders typically live in environments where heavy shock and or vibration are present. Full text
SeeByte, the global leader in creating smart software for unmanned vehicles, has completed a successful Confined Area Search (CAS) trial on Bluefin Robotics’ Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (HAUV) with the U.S. Office of Naval Research. Full text
Leading flexible pipe specialist flexlife has taken on additional premises at Aberdeen Science and Energy Park to create a world-class Research & Development facility specialising in flexible pipe projects and technological advances. Full text
AnTech Limited, a leading UK design engineering and manufacturing company serving the upstream oil and gas industries, recently announced the addition of a new derivative to its range of Wellhead Outlets that significantly increases its ability to maintain the integrity of today’s hottest wells. Full text
BJ Services Company recently set a world record for cementing the longest solid expandable tubular liner for an operator in the Gulf of Mexico. The 6,935-ft (pre-expansion length) 7 5/8-in. liner was set and successfully cemented with a shoe depth below 20,000 ft (6000 m). BJ used a specially formulated XtremeSet™ cement slurry system to overcome challenges with isolating the deep wellbore section, including bottomhole static temperatures of 368°F (187°C). Full text
Subsea 7, leading subsea engineering and construction company, and their customer, are delighted with their new self-contained underwater umbilical testing system. A new take on pre-function testing, the new self-contained system envisaged by Subsea 7 and engineered by MacArtney, takes testing to the sea bed, making it faster and more convenient to test in situ. Full text
Teledyne Webb Research, a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) announced today the historic completion of the first transatlantic crossing of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), a Slocum glider manufactured by the company. Full text
TDW Offshore Services AS announced that it has successfully completed an innovative low pressure isolation operation on an export pipeline riser in the North Sea. In 2007, a passing vessel collided with the southeast face of a satellite platform jacket, damaging the 12-inch export riser. Production from the platform was immediately shut-in via the emergency shutdown valves, leaving the pressure in the pipeline at approximately 4 barg. Full text