Oil & gas news

The strategic partnership’s main scope is for the disposal of the steel platform’s integrated accommodation, drilling and production topsides.

Russia is set to reap record ruble revenues from the upstream oil and gas sector over the next six years, according to GlobalData.

Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) has successfully completed an air transport test flight of a fully assembled subsea capping stack for the first time.

Paul Smith has been appointed group managing director at UTEC Survey (UTEC), one of the industry’s leading off- and onshore survey companies and part of subsea services group Acteon.

Block Energy Plc has announced the execution of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (‘MOU’) with Georgia-based drilling contractor, JSC Norio Oil Company (‘NOC’), for the provision of a drilling and a workover rig.

This combined regional capability will provide total subsea engineering solutions that draw upon James Fisher’s established regional networks and extensive operational expertise.

Under the contract, PG Flow Solutions will supply a total of six pump skids, including pump skids for scale inhibitor injection, drag reducer injection, emulsion breaker and MEG injection.

In this collaborative effort, field data from four deepwater steel catenary risers (SCR) and one lazy-wave riser were used to provide a measurement-based foundation for riser modelling.

Mark Sørheim, HydraWell, Norway, examines plugging offshore wells without the support of a drilling rig as a cost-saving solution.

The XtremeGrip liner hangers have been installed to a depth of 30 924 ft in the Gulf of Mexico Hess-operated Stampede deepwater development, setting a record depth for the XtremeGrip system.