Testing page for app

Lamprell completed construction of the jackup rig Jindal Star for Jindal Pipes to be used offshore India. The Jindal Star, weighing 10,500 metric tons, is a LeTourneau Super 116E rig with a self-elevating 477-ft leg design.

Compania Espanola de Petroleos entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Coastal Energy for an aggregate value of approximately USD 2.2 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014.

For this column, I have elected to do a book review on Risk Society by Ulrich Beck in which he argued that we are in the midst of a major cultural change in Western society.

Solomon Associates' Bill Glasscock says energy operations have begun employing a highly data-driven staffing assessment approach within the context of the business process.

Control rooms have come a long way over the years, and there remains ample room for improvement.

Record-setting megaprojects are driving innovation at the installation and subsea construction firm.

Seizing on historic margins in domestic prices, North American oil and gas companies are increasing their efforts to use more natural gas and less diesel fuel to power their field operations.

Polluted streams in Pennsylvania could provide a source of water for hydraulic fracturing and help prove a new way to clean up waterways contaminated by coal mine waste.

Saif Al Ghafli, CEO of Abu Dhabi-based Al Hosn Gas, says the Shah gas field development has raised the technical benchmark for sour gas field development in the Middle East.

Two large proppant makers have rolled out a new class of ultraheavy proppant built to stand up to the extreme stresses found on the frontiers of deepwater exploration.