Drilling & production

Cameron has announced that it has received an order from Freeport-McMoRan to supply a 20 000 psi blowout preventer stack.

Cameron reports the results of the second quarter of this financial year.

New subsea construction vessel is launched.

The Dynamic Positioning 2 (DP2) Tugboat, Ocean Sky, was christened in Houston.

Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation has gone live with MetricStream's solution for risk-based audit management.

The UK government has announced the start of the bidding process for licences to extract shale gas using fracking.

The downing of flight MA17 has prompted calls for further sanctions on Russia targeted at its energy sector.

Volga-Dnepr’s IL-76TD-90VD fleet saw oil and gas deliveries double in the first half of 2014.

A fracking ban in Longmont, Colorado, has been thrown out by a judge amid petitions to hold a vote on restricting oil and gas drilling.

Tethys’ share of the production in June, from blocks onshore Oman, was 219,777 barrels of oil.

GE has launched a new innovation challenge to improve the efficiency of oilsands extraction in Canada.

The enlarged research group will build upon the work completed to date to extend and amplify their applied research.

Company’s Q2 2014 operating income was NOK 32 billion.

ABS Group is working to provide insight and services to the industry on this subject.

GE’s Measurement and Control division announced a minority equity investment in Meridium.