Tracerco, part of Johnson Matthey plc, has launched Tracerco Diagnostics Grout Monitoring, the company’s new product that is able to provide quick and accurate grout density profiling. Grout monitor…
NEL’s Damian Krakowiak examines the potential of virtual flow metering technology and how better testing could enable its adoption. Validation needed. Photo from NEL. With the…
Chariot Oil & Gas says preparation for drilling on its acreage offshore Namibia has started following a review identifying 1.75 Billion bbl of gross mean prospective resources. Chariot says a Competent Person's Report on Namibian Blocks 2312 & 2412A (the Central Blocks)…
Michael Reader-Harris, of NEL, outlines the risk that absent multiphase flow measurement standards pose to industry. Michael Reader-Harris While accurately measuring a complex mixture of oil…
Lundin Petroleum has started drilling appraisal well 7220/11-4 (Alta-4) on the Alta discovery in PL609, on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The Alta-4 well is about 2km south of the original discovery well 7220/11-1 and is the fourth well to be drilled on the Alta discovery…
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) and The British Geological Survey (BGS) have released the 21st Century Exploration Roadmap (21CXRM) Palaeozoic Project. The project aims to improve the knowledge and data from the under-explored Palaeozoic…
Impact Subsea has developed the ISM3D underwater attitude and heading reference system (AHRS). The ISM3D utilizes high grade MEMS (micro-electro mechanical systems) based accelerometers, angular rate gyroscopes and magnetometers all of…
Lundin Petroleum started appraisal drilling at Gohta in the Barents Sea, and on the Edvard Grieg field in the North Sea. At Gohta, appraisal well 7120/1-5 in PL492, is being drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson semisubmersible drilling rig. The…
Innova, a specialist subsea engineering and technology company based in Norway, has selected acoustic and inertial navigation technology from Sonardyne International, for two new in-field resident ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) being built in the country…
After a long awaited return to Liberia, ExxonMobil started drilling at the deepwater Mesurado-1 exploration well earlier this week, according to partner Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd. (COPL). Map of Liberia…
The UK Accreditation Service has awarded NEL’s Elevated Pressure and Temperature (EPAT) test facility ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation [calibration laboratory No 0009]. This makes it the first and only high-pressure, high-temperature facility…
UK-based Subsea Technology & Rentals (STR), a subsea technology design, manufacture and rental company, has received Valeport accreditation for its calibration laboratory. With this accreditation STR can supply third party calibration services…
Ashtead Technology has successfully completed a subsea integrity management project to support BP’s Quad 204 redevelopment of the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, West of Shetland. Subsea technology and equipment provider Ashtead deployed its new Deflection Monitoring System (DMS)…
Forum Energy Technologies (FET), a subsea technology provider, has unveiled a deepwater test facility and received industry accreditation for the calibration laboratory at its new European Operational Centre in Aberdeen. The primary purpose…
NEL has completed the latest upgrade phase of its wet gas test facility, in response to increasing industry demand. The upgraded facility has been designed to more accurately simulate the increased flowrates experienced during production and processing…
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