Oil & gas news
Onshore lessons for offshore decommissioning
Philip Lawson, ABB Consulting, UK, challenges current views of decommissioning in the UKCS and looks at the lessons to be learned from shore-based projects.
LR Senergy and EnergyOne AS form partnership
Senergy AS has been acquired through a management buy-out and will now trade under the company name of EnergyOne AS.
Keeping it clean
Marc Bellanger, Bosque Systems, USA, shows how integrated water treatment solutions can result in increased operator efficiencies.
SpeedCast awarded multi-year contract
SpeedCast will significantly increase the primary satellite communications services to the ConocoPhillips operated asset.
UK energy statistics: 2014 and 4Q14
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has released its latest UK energy statistics for 2014 and 4Q14.
Geovariances launches R&D consortium for depth conversion software
Geovariances starts a two-year R&D consortium with Mines ParisTech focused on the development of a software dedicated to depth conversion.
Training specialist launches pioneering offshore health programme
imorph has launched Gloe, a training programme based at tackling the issues behind the growing problem of obesity facing the offshore industry.
Total adopts AVEVA AVP for Martin Linge topside platform in the North Sea
Total E&P Norge AS has chosen AVEVA AVP to support training activities on its Martin Linge topside platform in the North Sea.
Kongsberg Maritime acquires Contros Systems & Solutions GmbH
Kongsberg Maritime AS has acquired the remaining 90% of the shares of the Germany based underwater chemical sensors specialist Contros Systems.
EIA: Upstream Capex declined 12% year-over-year in Q4 2014
Aggregating the reports of 23 global producers, upstream Capex was 12%, less in Q4 2014 than in Q4 2013.