The Statoil-operated Gullfaks gas field in the Norwegian Sea will use Nexans' innovative power umbilicals combining power, fiber-optic and hydraulic lines in a single cross section. The cables were handed over to Statoil this month. The…
Schlumberger released the ACTive Straddle coiled tubing real-time multiset inflatable packer, which provides all functions needed to isolate and treat multiple zones on a single run without coming out of the well, which reduces intervention time and optimizes production…
Stavanger-based Ziebel announced that for the first time in oil and gas history, the Z-Line, a gravity-deployed slim carbon composite cable, was used to acquire meaningful distributed temperature and distributed acoustic fiber optic data during a commercial well intervention…
McDermott International has won two contacts for EPCI work, one for Qatar Petroleum in the North Field Alpha gas development, and a second from Saudi Aramco for the Marjan field, offshore Saudi Arabia. The North Field Alpha project calls for a new jacket…
Nexans' power umbilicals that integrate HV power supply and umbilical functions within a single cable cross-section were installed for the Chevron-operated Jack/St. Malo gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico. From Nexans…
Claudio Paschoa provides insights from technical sessions at this year’s Rio Oil & Gas event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Petrobras Geophysics Manager Paulo Johann. Photo from IBP. At Rio Oil & Gas…
The rapid expansion of oil and gas telecommunications systems in order to facilitate the development digital oilfields in increasingly remote locations, enhance safety, and maximize data use, was the theme of a conference on oil and gas telecommunications organized by SMi Group in London…
An OptaSense instrument well with a vibroseis unit conducting OptaSense DAS-VSP. Photos from OptaSense. OptaSense is collaborating with Shell to develop a fully-marinizied DAS system. OptaSense's David Hill explains…
INPEX and Shell are investing in a project to construct a subsea optical fiber cable system incorporating the Ichthys and Prelude projects in Australia's Browse basin. The subsea fiber optic cable system, to be provided and operated by Nextgen Group…
Pharaonic Petroleum Company (PhPC) awareded OneSubsea an US$80 million subsea supply contract for the East Nile Delta END-3 development offshore Egypt. The contract calls for the supply of four well systems including subsea production equipment…
Italy's Novacavi announces the launch of Aquancable, a wide range of specialist, bespoke cables for maritime and underwater technologies. These include ROV cables, fiber optic hybrid cables, umbilicals, subsea armoured cables, subsea detection…
Great Yarmouth-based Sonar Equipment Services (SES) delivered its first multi-sensor ROV survey package to Calecore’s marine survey division, Calesurvey. SES has integrated, tested and mobilized a complex array of survey and subsea equipment…
Milton Korn of ABS explains how industry is monitoring well conditions and fluids for efficient and safe production. The task of monitoring and controlling operations is difficult onshore, and when subsea drilling and production are taking place in ultra-deep water…
Latin America’s Telmex contracted Offshore Marine Management to supervise and assist with repairs to the shore-end section of an existing fiber optic connection between the Mexican mainland and Cozumel. Offshore Marine Management installed protective pipe on to the submarine cable section…
The newbuild DP3 ultra-deepwater multipurpose flex-lay subsea construction vessel Lewek Connector recently wrapped up her first working voyage in the Irish Sea, laying two power cables and a fibre optic cable for the final phase of EirGrid's East-West Interconnector project…
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