Offshore & subsea

The guidelines aim to help companies understand good practice in how to identify, rank, approve and carry out opportunities to optimise production.

Herman Artinian, Upwing Energy, USA, reviews the company's subsurface compressor system.

Sergey Rekin and Albert Agishev, TMK, Russia, profiles the company's range of threaded connections.

Petter Johan Dramstad, Siemens, Norway, looks into a wet mate connector system designed to enable subsea power distribution.

Nicholas Rouge and Steffan Lindsø, Oceaneering, discuss the company's development of ROV vehicles and systems.

The company recently engineered a pair of ROV-deployable magnetic mounts to allow the loggers to be mounted directly onto subsea cross braces on a platform at two separate depths.

The 2020 Somali licensing round – launched virtually due to Covid-19 – features up to 7 blocks up for bidding.

In collaboration with Marathon Oil Corp and EG LNG, the country's Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons has awarded a contract for the development of a gas master plan to British company Gas Strategies.

The study for JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp. will assess options for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), alongside blue hydrogen production relating to oil and gas fields in South East Asia.

Sven Olson, Leistritz Advanced Technologies Corp., USA, describes the applications of twin-screw pumps in the upstream industry.

Nathan Wyatt and Avinash Dharne, Halliburton, USA, focus on a plug system designed specifically for deepwater projects.

Barry Smart, Gyrodata, UK, looks into the applications of a drop gyro surveying system in the oilfield.

Rutger Baan, GustoMSC, The Netherlands, examines a crane designed by the company that separates wireline operations from the drill floor.

Jeremy Holberg, Gardner Denver, USA, looks at a new frac pump designed for the wide variety of fleets currently operating in the frac market.

Premier Oil has said first gas from its Tolmount project is now expected in 2Q21.