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[ 24 November 2020 ] Tananger Offshore navigates path to Polar Code certification Featured
[ 24 November 2020 ] Safety start-up launches pioneering risk assessment software News
[ 24 November 2020 ] Ørsted aims to develop offshore wind projects in South Korea Projects
[ 24 November 2020 ] Maersk Drilling selected for two-rig Suriname campaign by Total Contracts
[ 24 November 2020 ] Despite downturn, US shale operators finding new growth opportunities Oil/Gas

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Tananger Offshore navigates path to Polar Code certification

Norwegian shipowner achieved compliance by leveraging class society’s dedicated tools and services, writes Dan Oldford, Principal Engineer, ABS. When the IMO Polar Code was adopted in 2017, it was a new type of regulation. Designed [...]
Analysis

Mapped: Which European country pays most for its electricity?

As the winter months approach and Christmas edges closer, household bills tend to increase due to people spending additional time indoors and using more electricity than usual. But who will be paying the most? Interested [...]
Analysis

ABS can assist shipowners with extensions to US Coast Guard Alternate Management System

The regulator has changed its position by considering extensions to AMS installed vessels that are near the end of the acceptance period, but challenges remain for owners seeking compliance, writes Evon Li, Senior Engineer, Advisory [...]
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Kick-starting offshore wind in India

India OW market is attractive yet challenging. The risks cannot be ignored or wished away, but the industry can be kick-started with a targeted approach. To deal with the uncertainty, the government needs to provide [...]
Analysis

Building resilient workforces

International SOS’ head of mental health, resilience and wellbeing, Carolyn Taylor explores below how organisations and employers can build a workforce resilience that will not only future proof your company, but support employees and colleagues [...]
Analysis

Rolling the dice in chaos: The prospects of investment in the gas industry

As stated in the Declaration of Malabo at the 5th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the GECF Member Countries, in order to sustain the security of demand and supply of natural gas, [...]
Analysis

The four seasons of vegetation risk

Climates vary from state to state, country to country, in differing degrees but all four seasons bring unique risks for T&D network operators trying to manage vegetation risk. The lightning strikes of summer storms coupled [...]
Analysis

COVID and control – How automation can reduce energy project cost and risk

In a world where control and COVID together seem an oxymoron, Steve Bruce, Product Director at Idox shares his insights into where and how energy players can exert tighter control over projects to reduce cost [...]
Analysis

Service providers carve out new role as offshore sector evolves

This is a moment like none in living history for the offshore sector, and the world at large. Six months ago, in an article for this publication, the pathway appeared clear for the oil and [...]
Analysis

Total, BP lead charge in green strategic shift among global oil majors

Should oil companies be investing in solar, wind, battery technology and networks of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations? Maybe, in the broader view of themselves as energy companies. And especially if the consumer shifts to [...]
Analysis

Floating offshore assets: Applying digital technologies for predictive analysis of remaining life

Here, Matthew Tremblay, ABS Senior Vice President, Global Offshore of ABS – one of the World’s leading providers of classification and technical advisory services to the marine and offshore industries – looks at the role [...]
Analysis

Celebrate and embrace failure!

Norwegians like to think that openness and trust are values embedded in society – values which help us to address concerns as well as to correct mistakes and what is wrong. However, in the past [...]
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Bristow Helicopters’ simulator specialists keep pilots flying

Ensuring that the pilots entrusted with transferring thousands of workers offshore every year undergo rigorous, regular training is a crucial element of the oil and gas industry’s commitment to safety. Simulators are absolutely vital to [...]
Analysis

The rise of the energy freelancer

Using freelancers has been common practice, particularly among the creative industries, for many years. When you can’t find, can’t afford or don’t need specific skills full-time, the freelancer can provide the perfect solution. In fact, [...]
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Siemens Energy’s HVDC GIS – Maximising performance with a minimum footprint

High-voltage direct current (HVDC) electric power transmission – or as some say, the “electrical superhighway” – has become the technology of choice when it comes to transmitting power from renewable energy sources to the wider [...]
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Cut to the chase

How vessel-deployed mechanical cutting can reduce the unavoidable costs of wellhead removal. End-of-life assets have become a much-debated topic in the past few years, not least because many are now operating far beyond their originally [...]
Analysis

Energy evolution crucial for climate change

While ramping up the use of renewables and the electrification of oil and gas platforms are part of the solution to cut emissions from E&P activity, the energy sector itself has the potential to become [...]
Analysis

EU Chemicals exports hurt by emerging market collapse

EU chemicals trade has shrunk this year, as the coronavirus pandemic has spread, and lockdowns have restricted industrial activity and consumer goods demand. Trade is vitally important for the sector which has enjoyed a strong [...]
Analysis

Power line management in the time of Corona

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has put communities on lockdown and created a need for social distancing. Many are staying at home, but that’s not an option for the frontline workers running critical power transmission infrastructure [...]
Analysis

Reframing the debate: why we should be talking about how to improve exploration and production

The oil and gas sector is very unfashionable at the moment. Environmental concerns and the rise of renewables combined mean that the industry feels pretty friendless right now. Be honest: how many of us now [...]
Analysis

4 reasons to digitalise your grid today

According to IEA’s Global Energy Review, renewable energy has so far been the energy source most resilient to COVID-19 lockdown measures, with renewable electricity being largely unaffected while demand has fallen for other uses of [...]
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Alternative lifting solutions

Cranes are an essential piece of equipment utilised on a variety of offshore assets around the globe. These safety critical systems provide a link between the sea and installation, lifting equipment to support onboard operations [...]
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UK’s first hybrid crew transfer vessels to boast Danfoss Editron drivetrain systems

When Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm enters operation in 2022, two hybrid crew transfer vessels (CTVs) will be in place to transport technicians and other personnel crews across the roughly 90 kilometres to and [...]
Analysis

Offshore wind is expensive for India – but as compared to what?

In its last article, MEC Intelligence discussed how a demand-supply gap is expected to emerge towards 2030 in India as the scaling of low-cost wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, beyond a certain level would be difficult. [...]
Analysis

The growing competition between pipeline gas and LNG supplies in the European Union amid the COVID-19 outbreak

The European Union plays a crucial role on the global gas market, with 55% share in the global net pipeline natural gas (PNG) imports and 20% share in the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports. [...]
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Dedication to advanced completion and intervention solutions: ‘It’s all about technology’

While at university in the 1980s, Jørgen Hallundbæk envisioned a “Well Tractor” as part of his master’s thesis, and he took the concept forward when he founded Welltec® in the early 90s. After more than [...]
Analysis

How digital projects can drive investment and reduce costs

Despite its rich heritage of engineering ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit, the oil and gas industry has been traditionally slow to adopt new technology. However, following the protracted downturn in recent years, this changed dramatically with [...]
Analysis

Carving out new offshore budgets that drive resilience through new proven technology

As the offshore oil and gas industry recovers from a sudden and deep drop in oil prices triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent Russia-Saudi Arabia price war, the sector must identify the most effective [...]
Analysis

Net-zero energy heralds exciting transition period for oil and gas

In the past, the blame for manmade climate change was laid firmly at the feet of the oil and gas sector. As an industry, oil majors and the supply chain have never shied away from [...]
Analysis

Digital solutions key to sustainable energy sector

Quicker and broader adoption of digital solutions is a key element in the future sustainability of the energy industry, never more so than in the current operating climate. Progress has been made and is being [...]
Analysis

Subsea UK: Locking in value to ensure the road to recovery

In between the Teams and Zoom calls, which now fill our days, and the odd webinar or two, it’s becoming increasingly evident that the oil and gas industry needs to have some serious conversations about [...]
Analysis

What might COVID 19 mean for DSOs in the long-term?

Summer is here and COVID-19 is still with us. Though parts of society are reopening, full normality will be a slow, potentially irregular process – three steps forward, two steps back. Nonetheless, the situation has [...]
Analysis

Collectively defining the common goal: Digitalisation as a shared objective

The impact to the oil and gas industry we are seeing from the COVID-19 crisis, and the continuing low oil price, has been considerable. One thing we can be sure of as we start to [...]
Analysis

Keeping the lights on at the end of the tunnel

Across Europe, new COVID-19 cases are declining, and economies are taking tentative steps to ease restrictions and return to something like normality. Assuming we do not see a second peak, this is cause for celebration: [...]
Analysis

How Egypt banks on renewables to meet expected surge of energy demand

To meet its soaring demand for energy, Egypt is turning to renewable sources. Its targets, if accomplished, will see it become a pioneer in the African energy landscape. But are the plans realistic? Egypt’s population [...]
Analysis

Operating a distribution network during a pandemic: The challenges and threats

Overnight, COVID-19 lockdowns have transformed our economies and societies. Factories are quiet, shops are shuttered, offices are empty as people stay at home to stop the spread. The IEA’s most recent report reveals that global [...]
Analysis

How we can emerge from COVID-19 to tackle climate change

If there’s one positive thing that COVID-19 has brought us, it’s clarity. It has never been easier to see the positive impacts of reducing greenhouse gas emissions – the cleaner air in Lisbon, the clear [...]
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Simulation supporting design of subsea equipment

As the oil and gas industry continues to demand efficiencies within the project supply chain, innovative technologies can prove valuable in reducing unforeseen costs associated with rework, redesign and operational work arounds. Once the process [...]
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Market uncertainty and COVID-19 boost UK oil and gas supply chain diversification into non-energy sectors

The Energy Industries Council (EIC) has now published its fourth edition of the Survive and Thrive Insight Report that charts the course 40 EIC member companies have taken to grow against a backdrop of continued [...]
Analysis

India: Why bother about offshore wind at all?

India is among the fastest-growing economies in the world and electricity demand is nearly expected to double in the next decade. India’s electricity demand is expected to go from 1,275 TWh in FY2019 to 2,325 [...]
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Opening the door to the Middle East

How Phaze Ventures worked with Interface Fluidics to bring new oil optimisation solutions to market. The disruptive idea Innovative ideas are often born in the most unlikely of places. For Interface Fluidics, a technology-enabled oil [...]
Analysis

One Sea redefines the autonomous ship agenda

Ship autonomy tests show that a range of technologies can do the job, but clear definitions of different levels of automation, standards and regulations are urgently needed. Free from the burden of day to day [...]
Analysis

A guiding hand for the autonomous ship – ‘We have the technologies. Now we need regulations!’

Eero Lehtovaara talks about ABB’s digital initiatives in shipping and his priorities as the new Chairman of One Sea, a 12-member alliance of ship automation technology companies Capt. Eero Lehtovaara is Head of Regulatory & [...]
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Will the COVID-19 pandemic upend the energy transition?

“It’s moving a global energy system dominated by unabated fossil fuels with greenhouse emissions, to a global energy system dominated by low-carbon energy sources with much lower emissions,” replies Corin Taylor, when asked for a [...]
Analysis

New fuels and heat-sensitive cargo

The new fuels introduced to the bunker market are diverse in nature. However, one particular characteristic can prove troublesome if the vessel is carrying heat-sensitive cargo. Very-low-sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) is the umbrella term for [...]
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Preventing severe chalk influx with an industry-first lateral drain hole with solids control screens

An operator in the Norwegian North Sea required a simple, low cost method of creating a dual lateral well design in order to access reserves which would otherwise have been uneconomical to recover. The well [...]
Analysis

Chemical industry faces volatile backdrop on road to recovery

The coronavirus crisis may simply accelerate key macro trends already underway, creating a volatile backdrop for chemical companies to navigate on the road to recovery. Four key macro trends are shaping global discontentment: growing income [...]
Analysis

Sustainability takes the spotlight in the offshore industry

“When it comes to the energy transition, one thing is clear: We are not going to switch off oil and gas from one day to the next. That’s why it is called a transition. It’s [...]
Analysis

Data is key to supporting sector through the energy transition

The sudden requirement to work from home and therefore access data remotely has thrown many companies headfirst into digitalisation, whether they felt ready for it or not. What was perceived as a mammoth challenge, pre-coronavirus, [...]
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Oxford Flow investment to fuel innovation and digitalisation

Oxford Flow – the flow control equipment specialist for oil, gas, water and industrial process industries – recently announced an initial investment into its water and industrials business by GF Piping Systems, a division of [...]

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