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[ 17 January 2020 ] Eni starts production at Angolan offshore Agogo field Oil/Gas
[ 17 January 2020 ] NPD releases December 2019 production figures Oil/Gas
[ 17 January 2020 ] More solar power for Amsterdam and Uppsala Contracts
[ 17 January 2020 ] A new offshore investment cycle is in the making Analysis
[ 17 January 2020 ] TechnipFMC reaffirms timeline for separation into two diversified pure-play companies Mergers

Analysis

A new offshore investment cycle is in the making

In retrospect, 2019 was another strong year for offshore exploration and production companies. Free cash flow remained strong and tell-tale signs have emerged that we are entering a new offshore investment cycle. This trend was [...]
Featured

The use of composite pipes to enhance production in the North Sea

Traditionally, oil and gas pipelines are constructed from carbon steel as it is generally low cost and widely available. However, carbon steel has several inherent disadvantages, including corrosion, fatigue and weight. According to research, an [...]
Analysis

Global chemical supply, demand threatened by Middle East escalation

Military action leading to closure of the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Saudi Arabia could seriously disrupt global trade in chemicals and oil products, with a knock-on effect for the world’s already fragile manufacturing [...]
Analysis

Europe dominates LNG import story in 2019

Global LNG production jumped in 2019, triggering oversupply and low prices that are expected to persist in 2020. Initial full-year data from LNG Edge shows exports at 355 million tonnes in 2019, up from 314.9 [...]
Featured

UN Climate Change Conference – closing with cautious optimism

During the closing plenary of COP 25 in Madrid, the statement by Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment, Ola Elvestuen, struck a cautiously positive note, pointing out that including Norway, 80 countries pledged to step [...]
Featured

Collaboration, creativity and commercial partnerships – the new upstream triumvirate

How industry partnership models mark a new era for extending life of field. […]
Featured

The factory of the future; the new generation of subsea is here

Subsea technology is a part of our industry experiencing huge advancements, largely due to the need for infrastructure and equipment that can cope with the increasing challenges of mature basins, ever deepening water and ever [...]
Featured

Teekay achieves Oslo Børs green bond listing

At the beginning of 2015, Norway’s Oslo Børs was the first stock exchange to create a separate listing for green bonds in order to raise green investment awareness. Proceeds from green bond listing on the [...]
Featured

Norway at COP 25: “We must act immediately”

Taking place in Madrid, under the Presidency of the Government of Chile with logistical support from Spain, this year’s UN Climate Change Conference – COP 25 – is now underway and running through 13 December. [...]
Featured

Extremely compact, maintenance-free: innovative flow control technology

As an innovative developer of pressure and flow control equipment, Oxford Flow can trace its engineering roots to jet turbine research, when the company’s CTO, Professor Tom Povey worked to develop a pressure regulator that [...]
Analysis

We need a rebellion against bio-fouling extinction

Tor Østervold, CEO of ECOsubsea, believes we’ve had our sights set on the wrong target when it comes to tackling the threats posed to marine biodiversity. Invasive organisms are now accepted as the main drivers of species extinction […]
Featured

Subsea Connect: lower costs, improve productivity, increase yield

When it comes to oilfield development expertise and products, Baker Hughes, which offers both services and equipment, spans the entire life of a field – from concept to commissioning and production. The Baker Hughes’ Subsea [...]
Featured

The reality of snakebites – time is tissue

With at least 600,000 people worldwide killed or permanently disabled each year, snakebites are the biggest public health crisis that no one has heard of. For projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the oil and gas industry needs to consider the risks […]
Featured

Green CCS

Recall biology class, where we learned that growing vegetation – photosynthesis – makes use of atmospheric carbon dioxide and releases, among other things, oxygen – and that we animals use oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. [...]
Featured

Majors weigh in on the energy transition

Publications released this week by Total and Eni highlight the ongoing energy transition and renewable energy sector. Both publications focus on lower carbon energy sources, in particular the use of natural gas rather than coal [...]
Featured

Offshore wind: near limitless potential

Last week, in the run-up to its annual World Energy Outlook 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released an excerpt – Offshore Wind Outlook 2019. The WEO excerpt offers a comprehensive look at the offshore [...]
Featured

Double your money with zirconia ceramics in oil and gas

Ray Mouw, Business Development Manager at Morgan Advanced Materials’ Technical Ceramics business, explains why magnesia stabilised zirconia ceramic components will be vital for pumps that work in harsh environments, such as oil and gas, and [...]
Analysis

Plastics producers in danger of becoming household names for all the wrong reasons

The plastics or polymers industry was for many years a hidden industry. For most of its history, nobody has known much about the plastics business because it is sandwiched between oil and gas and a [...]
Featured

Simple innovation enabling an evolution in well construction and completions

The changing face of the oil and gas industry and the vital need for cost effective solutions has resulted in a successful shift in focus for Deep Casing Tools (DCT). For more than a decade, [...]
Featured

Q-Pulse 7: Deeper understanding across the quality, safety, risk and compliance space

UK-based Ideagen plc – a developer of enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software for organisations operating in highly regulated industries – recently launched a new and improved version of its Q-Pulse quality, safety, risk [...]
Analysis

Conductor-supported platforms: Demystifying the industry’s best-kept secret

For the field development engineer striving to deliver the most cost-effective concept design for a shallow water development, there are a variety of possible routes to take. Maybe a subsea tieback would provide the most [...]
Featured

Why the new energy generation should not focus on the past

Simon Bransfield-Garth, CEO of Azuri Technologies, provider of next-generation energy in off-grid Africa, comments on how Africa is forging a new path for renewable energy. A changing climate for new solutions The saying goes, the [...]
Featured

Raising awareness: IADC Cybersecurity for Drilling Assets Conference

This week’s first IADC Cybersecurity for Drilling Assets Conference examined the spectrum of issues and challenges facing the global drilling industry as it generates tremendous amounts of data that must be securely communicated between on-site [...]
Analysis

How to translate innovation from water to oil and gas

A typical offshore oil and gas platform has some 20,000 valves, with each valve being anything from 4 inches to 44 inches in diameter and worth USD 20,000 to 500,000. That’s 20,000 opportunities to drive [...]
Analysis

Environmental performance and the compliance superhero

Compliance Officer. Not traditionally a role to fill the heart with joy or put fire in the belly of an ambitious graduate. And historically not a department that has been embraced by colleagues. For rather [...]
Featured

TOTEX: Commercial creativity and the supply chain of the future

For as long as the industry existed, oil and gas has been an attractive investment. Since the first recorded subsea wells were drilled in the late 19th century, subsurface engineering and developments were the pinnacle [...]
Featured

Providing insight through data: Brainnwave applies augmented intelligence to pinpoint opportunity

Perhaps the most daunting aspect of the information age is the shear amount of available data. How can decisions be made when a simple Internet search can lead to hundreds of thousands, if not millions [...]
Featured

Dillinger makes your plates talk to you: Plate processing à la carte – via Smartphone

Dillinger, Europe’s leading producer of heavy plate, is working at full throttle on the digitalisation of its value chain. The company is backing design-thinking processes in innovation management to meet its customers’ present and future [...]
Analysis

Petrochemical feedstock supply under attack

Drone attacks on Saudi Aramco will severely disrupt NGL and petrochemicals supply – much more than oil. The impact on global economic and geopolitical dynamics will be huge. The drone attacks on Saudi Aramco’s oil [...]
Featured

Jotun continues to lower risks and raise safety levels with Jotachar mesh-free epoxy passive fire protection

Manufacturers would have you believe that for any traditional epoxy intumescent coating (EPFP) product to meet industry requirements for fire safety, durability and system adhesion, it requires additional system reinforcement […]
Featured

Global reach – Iridium leverages worldwide coverage

Geostationary configurations, most of which orbit high above the Earth’s equator, have a long history within satellite communications. While coverage from geostationary satellite systems is near complete, the “newcomers” – Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite arrays [...]
Featured

On solid footing – ‘Innovation’ XXL racks and chords from a single source

Offshore wind energy is a crucial pillar of sustainable energy provision. Key factors in securing the economic viability of this energy source are highly efficient turbines and high-performance mobile platforms or jack-up installation vessels for [...]
Featured

Blending innovation benefits to drive down intervention costs

The world demands more energy Pressure on the oil and gas well infrastructure continues to be challenged by ever increasing global demand. In its World Oil Outlook 2018, OPEC predicts primary energy demand will increase [...]
Featured

Composites enable safe operations for aging offshore assets

ClockSpring|NRI manufactures composite pipeline repair solutions worldwide, which are designed to provide structural reinforcement, leak repair, and corrosion prevention for commercial and industrial pipes. Managing Director of ClockSpring|NRI, Europe, Sean Connolly has been involved in [...]
Analysis

Energy transition: Four trends for tomorrow’s talent

The energy system is changing. The rise of the prosumer, energy as a service, business models, and customisation as a result of digitalisation – you can point to any number of human-centric trends that are [...]
Featured

From subsea to life on land: Gasket technology follows Darwinism

Metal-to-metal sealing technology is a technique that had previously been reserved for subsea oil and gas applications where meeting the most extreme operational criteria has always been required. Such criteria demand that any equipment, tools, [...]
Featured

A new age of materials: Modumetal nanolaminated alloys

As a pioneer in the development of nanolaminated alloy technologies, Modumetal has developed a patented additive manufacturing process that can be applied as a corrosion mitigation solution for conventional metals – and functions as a [...]
Featured

Three questions on the subject of biodiversity

Biodiversity is one of the most important environmental issues for Vattenfall, a European energy company. The company continually works to prevent or minimise negative impacts on biodiversity. Head of Environment, Helle Herk-Hansen explains why biodiversity [...]
Featured

Tracking methane

Methane – made up of one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen (CH4) – is powerful stuff. On positive side, power generated from natural gas, of which methane is the primary component, offers [...]
Events

Humanising the energy transition: Diversity and creativity as sources of innovation

Back in the 1970s, numerous international aid organisations decided to tackle a huge sustainable energy issue. They wanted to find a new solution to the inefficient, hazardous and polluting cooking methods which were the only [...]
Featured

Creating ‘openness’ to ensure safety

For more than 20 years the safety consultants in SAYFR, a Propel company, have worked to identify why some companies have been involved in major incidents, while others haven’t – and what sets the two [...]
Analysis

Growing market for power purchase agreements

As subsidies are set to be phased out in the coming years, energy companies need new ways to secure the investments in renewable power. Therefore, long-term electricity supply agreements like PPAs (power purchase agreements) are [...]
Exploration

A minute saved, a minute gained? Why analysis is key for your next drilling project

It’s mid-January, 150 miles from land with the temperature around zero degrees Celsius. The waves are 50 feet high, with many large vessels having chosen to shelter closer towards the coast. It’s not worth the [...]
Featured

Composite restores FPSO integrity

It is not unusual for Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels to be on site producing oil for decades. More and more, these assets are remaining active beyond the original design life, and as [...]
Featured

Connecting smarter: ‘Solid’ satellite communications from Marlink

Provider of end-to-end managed connectivity and IT solutions, Marlink covers a lot of ground – or sea, to be more accurate. Who better to talk with concerning the latest developments in offshore communications? During this [...]
Featured

Energy storage: ‘Save it or lose it’

No matter how power is generated – by fossil fuels or renewables such as wind or solar – an ongoing challenge has been what to do with excess power when production exceeds demand. We’re all [...]
Featured

CCUS: Carbon harvest

Captured carbon dioxide’s potential worth in manufacturing or as a fuel feed stock of the will be a benefit as well – something to keep an eye on. Last week’s post – quick look into [...]
Featured

CCS captures the imagination

Carbon capture and storage (CCS), also referred to as carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) is taking shape as an important tool to lower greenhouse gas emissions. As CCS solutions are being developed and applied, [...]
Analysis

About time: Offshore wind set to take off in Norway

Although Norway’s largest renewables export is expertise and technology for offshore wind, there’s only been one domestic offshore wind turbine project to date – Equinor’s Hywind DEMO. The demo, which was the world’s first full-scale [...]
Exploration

NCS exploration continues to rise

Exploration “now” leads to production “later”, so with 2019 at the half way mark, it’s a good time to take stock of how the year’s taking shape from the exploration standpoint. As oil prices began [...]

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