Survivex provides safety training package to Nexen
Specialist training provider Survivex has developed a customised safety service package for oil major Nexen.
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Training academy helps unemployed back into work
A new training academy aimed at giving people skills to find work in the oil and gas industry has produced its first graduates.
Peak launches well bore tubing tool
Peak Well Systems has developed a tool which can confirm the minimum diameter specification of well bore tubing with the ability to cover a range of services. The company said FlexiDrift consists of a mandrel with two sets of extendable rails that can be manually extended with ease using the adjustment sleeves to the desired radius of the well tubing. When run downhole, the positioning of the extended rails provides the highest radial contact across the widest operating range of required drift sizes.
New test site aims to cut pipeline failures
A unique test facility that can help identify and prevent potentially catastrophic pipeline failures around the world has opened for business. The $1.5 million Technology Development Centre in Houston was created by the PRCI (Pipeline Research Council International). It will helps enable operators and pipeline companies to carry out real world testing of onshore and offshore pipelines in one place and then assess how equipment will perform in extreme conditions.
GE Oil & Gas invests in new riser connectors for the offshore market
GE Oil & Gas has invested in the development of new completion and workover riser connectors for the offshore market. The company said the move will help enable operators in a bid to save rig time during operations. GE Oil & Gas has awarded SRP (Subsea Riser Products) a contract to develop and qualify SRP’s Nimway 510 and Nimway 710 completion and workover riser connectors.
Atlantic Offshore Rescue to unveil Ocean Falcon
Atlantic Offshore Rescue is to unveil the third vessel of its modernisation programme. The standby vessel operator will showcase the Ocean Falcon, which totals £300million, at a ceremony in Aberdeen today. Ocean Falcon is a new H820 design from Havyard Ship Design. It was built and developed in Passai, Spain by Zamakona shipbuilders, in close collaboration with Atlantic Offshore Rescue over an 18 month period.
Atlas Knowledge secures Iraq training contract
Learning solutions provider Atlas Knowledge has signed a deal with the Ministry of Oil and Baghdad Oil Training Institute (BOTI) in Iraq. The contract will enable the firm to deliver safety and technical training to the country’s oil and gas workforce as part of a project sanctioned by the Ministry of Oil’s Department of Training and E-learning.
Plexus Holdings lands £1m deal
Plexus Holdings has secured a new £1 million contract with Premier Oil Norge AS. The contract will enable the Aberdeen-based firm to supply its wellhead technology for an exploration well in Norwegian Central North Sea in August.
Proserv reaches “milestone” in Brazil contract
Energy services firm Proserv has completed the first phase of one of its biggest contracts. The Aberdeen-quartered company has delivered three of nine control systems that will support drill pipe riser (DPR) intervention services at depths of 2,500 metres.
ITB awarded contract from Stork
A competency firm has been awarded a contract to deliver training courses to Stork. The 12-month deal will enable Aberdeen-based ITB company to supply assessor and verifier courses to OPITO standards to more than 80 operatives at Stork. Jenny Stokes, ITB’s managing director and founder, said the move would help create a stronger workforce.
Lloyds Register Energy forms strategic alliance
Lloyd’s Register Energy has formed a strategic alliance with MaxGrip. The move will see the development of a new risk-based inspection (RBI) software module called ‘strEAM+RBI’. The collaboration leverages Lloyd’s Register Energy’s market leading integrity engineering and RBI experience with MaxGrip’s expertise in software development and its strEAM+ framework. It offers a unique software solution that directly embeds into an enterprise’s asset management application, including IBM Maximo, SAP and INFOR EAM. Andy Scott, VP asset integrity services Americas, Lloyd’s Register Energy, said: “Companies operating in asset intensive industries are seeking ways to balance long term decisions with day to day operational challenges.
International Well Control Forum to host Aberdeen workshop next month
International Well Control Forum (IWCF) has announced a workshop and networking event for Aberdeen next month ahead of Offshore Well Intervention Europe 2015. The event will take place on Tuesday April 14, and will focus on the best practices for global safety, new initiatives that are being launched to drive up well control competency, and operators, contractors and service companies will be on hand to explain how to get more involved.
Bureau Veritas supercharges software for oil and gas industry
Global laboratory testing, inspection and certification services firm Bureau Veritas (BV) said today it had "supercharged" its Optimise software to help offshore operators and contractors get more out of their assets and develop projects more cost-effectively. Matthieu de Tugny, senior vice-president and head of offshore, BV, said: "Low and falling energy prices focus attention onto the reliability, availability and maintenance (RAM) of both existing assets and plant and ongoing developments.
Training numbers up 36% at Kongsberg Maritime’s Westhill site
Global marine technology company Kongsberg Maritime reports a large increase in the number of people taking part in its training courses. Trainee numbers rose by 26% last year, boosted by a 36% increase for courses at the firm's training centre in Westhill, near Aberdeen.
Sentinel Marine awarded contract for new emergency vessel
Sentinel Marine has been awarded a contract for a new emergency vessel for the Mariner field. The five-year deal with Statoil will enable the Aberdeen-based industry support firm to provide a new emergency response and rescue ship on the Mariner field.
N-sea completes industry first subsea repair operation
Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) specialist N-Sea said today it had used the world’s first "wet repair habitat" to complete a subsea cable repair. The habitat has been developed by Moyle Interconnector for a 500 megawatt cable in the Irish Sea.
Ceona awarded letter of intent for flagship vessel
Surf and subsea contractor Ceona has secured a letter of intent for its flagship field development vessel. Operated by Walter Oil & Gas, the Ceona Amazon will be deployed for the Coelacanth Export Pipeline project which will involve the the installation of an oil and gas line to the new Coelacanth Platform.
Statoil helps students prepare to become “Heroes of Tomorrow”
Months of hard science by budding young students at an Aberdeen school came to an end yesterday when they presented their projects at TechFest last week. TechFest's Heroes of Tomorrow event, sponsored by Statoil, had pupils from S1 to S6 giving short presentations to their families and peers on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Maersk launch new training facility in Aberdeen
Maersk have launched a new training facility in Kingswells, providing additional training opportunities to oil and gas workers in Aberdeen. Launched this week, the centre aims to complement the training facilities that already exist in the north-east, including the survival centre in Portlethen and the boat training facility in Stonehaven.
ITF Showcase 2015: Technology to reduce operational costs
In today’s economic climate, using existing infrastructure to gain increased production whilst reducing the complexity and costs of operations has become paramount. The Wood Report recommends that the industry deploys existing technologies to full effect and that new technologies are developed to maximise recovery from the UKCS – a recommendation that is particularly relevant for Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) and Reservoir Management techniques. The industry has become adept at collecting and analysing large volumes of data to assess subsurface conditions, but these techniques typically require complex and expensive data acquisition - e.g. 4D seismic – in association with large scale model analysis. The complexity of these techniques means that results and interpretations on the performance of injection operations during IOR activities are often derived days, weeks or months after measurements have been collected from the field.
Statoil signs contract with Allseas to install three topsides
Statoil has signed a contract with Allseas for the installation of three platform topsides in the Johan Sverdrup field. The topsides will be installed for the drilling, processing and living quarter platforms. The drilling platform topsides will be installed in 2018, and the processing and living quarter topsides will follow in 2019.
MOL looks to the North Sea for upstream expertise
Hungary’s MOL Group said yesterday it expects its UK North Sea business to become a “hub of know-how technology”.
A remarkable journey
Last year, a CHC helicopter made a remarkable journey. And a little over a month ago, it arrived in Europe’s oil capital. With an already established presence around the world, CHC operates from 11 international bases with 50 aircrafts frequently circling the skies.
Ashtead Technology to supply Norwegian products
Ashtead Technology is set to team up with Norwegian subsea equipment specialist Innova. The partnership will see the Aberdeen-headquartered subsea technology company provide customers with Innova products, including high specification hydraulic gear, fibre optic cards and data logging equipment.
Subsea Expo 2015: Cost-cutting technologies to be showcased
Companies with technologies that can cut the cost of oil and gas production will be highlighted in a new showcase at the subsea industry’s leading event this year. In an effort to demonstrate how recent innovations can help operators and oil services firms reduce costs, Subsea Expo will provide a platform for organisations to introduce, discuss and demonstrate their latest innovations. Chaired by Dr Gordon Drummond, project director for the National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI), the session will give a dozen companies ten minutes in the spotlight to outline their innovation and potential applications.