
Speedcast: Prioritising Safety
Mike Seymour, Global QHSSE Director, Speedcast, explains why safety in the oil and gas industry is a top priority.
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Mike Seymour, Global QHSSE Director, Speedcast, explains why safety in the oil and gas industry is a top priority.

Developing and managing reservoirs is a complex and challenging process. A new tool, named Reservoir Engineering Integrated Environment (REOnline), is designed to help engineer better plan, develop and manage fields and reservoirs.

Statoil is the operator for production licence 532 in the Barents Sea and has received consent to drill exploration well 7219/9-2 in a prospect named Kayak.

The FuchsRohr® AluDrill™ pipe is a high strength to weight alloy pipe that allows greater transfer of weight to bit in complex and challenging wells.

Trendsetter Engineering and Add Energy have combined expertise to provide market leading engineering and hardware support services to the industry’s most challenging problems in a nimble and responsive environment.

Integrity monitoring solutions specialist North East Corrosion Engineers (NECE), part of the ICR group, has secured a significant contract for the provision of corrosion and microbial monitoring services on four North Sea assets.

KBR, Inc. has announced that it has been awarded a contract by PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia for engineering, project and construction management services for Chevron's operating fields in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Sound Energy, the African and European focused upstream gas company, has announced the mobilisation of a rig to the company's Sidi Moktar asset, onshore Morocco.

TechnipFMC and DOF Subsea (DOF) announce that the Skandi Búzios, a pipelay support vessel (PLSV) owned by the joint venture formed between TechnipFMC (50%) and DOF (50%), has begun its 8-year charter contract with Petrobras.

Faced with declining government revenues from the oil and gas sector after the oil price crash and looking to diversify its economy, Saudi Arabia is reportedly planning to list 5% of its state-owned oil giant, Saudi Aramco, in an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in late 2018.

West Sussex County Council have now approved details under the provision of the planning consent for the proposed drilling of the second well, the new Lidsey-X2 onshore production well at the Lidsey oilfield (PL241) near Bognor Regis in the south of the UK.

Decom North Sea, the membership organisation for the oil and gas late life and decommissioning sector, has published the programme for its flagship conference and exhibition, Decom Offshore 2017.