Special reports

With the industry’s newest approach to validating a completion design, Reveal Energy Services’ fracture maps quantify fracture half-length, height, asymmetry, and azimuth.

Graham Mackrell, managing director of Harmonic Drive UK, looks at the technological challenges and how high precision gearing is being increasingly used to drill deeper.

EM&I - the international asset integrity specialists - have just achieved ‘top marks’ (10/10) from a major client in an FPAL (client assessment) report for their annual Piping& Pressure Vessel inspections on an FPSO offshore Malaysia.

Aaron Sinnott joins the company from Weatherford with 25 years of experience in tubular running services and well integrity ranging from field operations to global oversight.

John Chillingworth, Lucion Marine, explores how IHM is the key to managing hazardous materials danger.

Having experienced growth within the UK over the last year, including a number of senior appointments, the agreements signify the next step in LUX’s plans for international growth.

The 2018 programme has been significantly expanded to encourage more debate, discussion and collaboration across the industry through a series of panels led by some of the industry’s key influencers and CEOs.

The Action Platform for Sustainable Ocean Business, which launched last week, is a three-year global programme designed to bring together business, civil society, the UN and governments to advance the ocean economy and sustainable development.

Timur Tadjiev, Senior Materials and Welding Engineer at Wood, explores a new approach in developing standards specifications.

Following on from a period of significant investment for Montrose Port Authority, the funding feeds into the Port’s strategic growth plans which will allow larger cargo vessels to dock in Montrose.

The contract consists of mechanical testing and metallurgical analysis, to be conducted by Element’s Qatar laboratory. Additional specialist services will involve input from Element’s Middle East group and its laboratories in Italy, UK, The Netherlands and Singapore.

President of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov and Chairman of the Management Board of the National Company KazMunayGas Sauat Mynbayev signed a Principles Agreement on Zhenis license area, in Astana.

Mark McNeil Cassidy is a master mariner with 31 years’ seagoing experience, 24 years of which have been in the offshore oil and gas industry and five years in shore-based consultancy.

Shaun Reynolds has led the transaction services team for Deloitte’s Aberdeen office since setting it up in 2009. He specialises in advising clients in the UK’s oil and gas industry including the upstream, midstream and oilfield services sectors.

NXG Drilling Services has announced the appointment of a former Weatherford UK managing director to its senior management team