Doedijns recently received a Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3) certificate from Lloyd’s Register according to IEC 61508 standards for its complete series Compact Actuators. In recent years, the IEC 61508 standard has provided a more structured approach to both risk assessment and risk-reduction methods. A Safety Integrity Level 3 certificate contains the second highest [...]
China’s national oil company CNOOC has successfully completed the installation of the topsides of the Central Processing Platform at the Liwan field in the South China Sea. China Daily reports that the company Thursday lowered the 30.000 ton topsides on a jacket, previously installed on the seabed. The installation, some 300 kilometers southeast of Hong Kong, [...]
On the first day of the visit to Venezuela, the head of the Russian delegation Rosneft President Igor Sechin held talks with Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramírez. Besides, Igor Sechin met Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Elias Jaua. The parties discussed a wide range of issues regarding development of trade and economic cooperation between the [...]
UTEC Geomarine has announced the successful completion of its first ever geoROVTM CPT survey campaign in North America. The geotechnical survey in the Gulf of Mexico was in support of a major pipeline construction project and work comprised of situ testing, interpretation and production of the final reports. In its press release UTEC said the technology [...]
3D Oil Limited has been awarded a new exploration permit, T/49P in the offshore Otway Basin of Tasmania, bid on in 2012 Australian Offshore Gazettal round. T/49P covers an area of 4,960 km2 in water depths generally no greater than 100m. The permit is lightly explored covered by a broad grid of 2d seismic data [...]
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Oil & Gas UK’s survey of the well services sector published yesterday (23 May) reveals that companies delivering drilling, completion, testing and maintenance for oil and gas wells generated gross revenue of £1.9 billion ($3.05 billion) in 2012, the highest since records began in 1996. In line with increasing oil and gas activity on the [...]
Petroceltic International plc has provided an update on its western Black Sea drilling operations where the GSP Prometeu jack-up drilling rig has completed the first of four wells planned for this year. The Kamchia-1 exploration well offshore Bulgaria was designed to test a prospect located in the central area of the Galata exploration concession. The well was [...]
Brazil’s Petrobras has completed drilling and conducted a formation test in the well that discovered oil in the Rights Transfer area referred to as Florim, in the Santos Basin pre-salt cluster. Well 1-BRSA-1116-RJS (1-RJS-704), informally known as Florim, is located at a water depth of 2,009 meters, 206 km off the coast of the Rio [...]
Karoon Gas Australia has announced that at 06:00 WST on the 23rd of May an 8-1/2” drilling assembly was being made up as final preparations are made to recommence drilling in the 8-1/2” hole section at the ConocoPhillips-operated Proteus-1 well, offshore W. Australia. Since the last update the 8-1/2” hole section was drilled to a [...]
The Rt Hon Edward Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the UK, joined GDF SUEZ E&P UK in Aberdeen yesterday to witness the signing of another major contract with the UK supply chain for the Cygnus project, . The deal with Burntisland Fabrication Ltd (BiFab) to construct the accommodation platform [...]
