In 2003, Bill DeWitt, Jr., the owner of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball club, initiated a transformation in the Cardinals’ talent-acquisition business processes. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Offshore RSS Feed
The Paired-Column Semisubmersible (PC Semi) is an innovative alternative to the conventional semi. It uses column pairs to increase safety, lower cost, improve project delivery time, and be riser friendly. Thoroughly engineered, model tested, and approved in principle by DNV GL, Atkins’ PC Semi splits the larger single corner column of a conventional semi into…
In the midst of the low oil-price environment that began in 2014, the role of deepwater as a significant source of future supply growth has been called into question. This has been primarily driven by factors such as shaky project economics, large upfront capital investments, long-cycle times from discovery to first oil, and uncertainty in…
Fortunately, while the tides of fortune have ebbed in the oil and gas industry, advancements in integrated technology have flowed at an accelerated pace. This bounty in the technology market provides the offshore oil and gas industry with solutions to some of its most pressing concerns regarding major accident event or hazard risks. The evolution…
For an exploration and production company operating offshore Africa, the decision to use the Baker Hughes SeismicTrak seismic-while-drilling service for a walkaway vertical seismic profile operation enabled successful salt boundary identification in an exploration well while reducing rig time and risk, compared to a conventional wireline operation. Read Full Article Here For more great articles:…
A perfect storm has completely crushed the offshore rig construction market. The market downturn and an excess supply of existing rigs has eroded demand for newbuilds significantly. At the moment, a total of 154 rigs are under construction. Jackups make up the vast majority of this set, with 100 units currently under construction. Read Full…
Historically, light well intervention systems have used Polyamide lined flexible sections of liner to compensate for vessel motions and equipment placement subsea. As these systems see greater deployment times in the future, the liner used for the flexibles should come under greater scrutiny. In an effort to support such applications Continental/ContiTech has worked to bring…
A new riserless plug and abandonment system offers the promise of revolutionizing deepwater operations at a time when the industry needs a cost-saving tool to shore up the bottom line. Now, recent improvements in Wild Well Control’s DeepRange technology can help deliver cost-effective, enhanced P&As in record time. Read Full Article Here For more great…
In pursuit of a safer and more cost-effective best practice approach to liquid-based rigless/riserless interventions, the oil and gas industry is engaged in a growing movement to identify new techniques and technologies that can help it to maximize revenues from existing brownfields and new assets by enhancing their output. Read Full Article Here For more…
As the offshore oil and gas market bottoms out and starts to come out of the downturn, there are certain issues that will indicate a shift in how overall subsea well operations are to be conducted. For subsea well operations, the three primary technologies that will have the greatest impact are subsea coiled tubing, surface…