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Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are lightweight, low-cost aircraft platforms operated from the ground that can be outfitted with imaging or nonimaging payloads. UASs offer health, safety, and environment professionals a promising opportunity to reduce risks by keeping people out of harm’s way.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement is proposing to update regulations covering offshore oil and gas drilling operations.

Brazil’s large offshore discoveries and domestic demand for oil and gas are a combination that holds potential for explorers to make money on high-priced blocks. A series of offshore auctions offering more attractive properties at more reasonable terms have attracted aggressive bidding.

Sustainable cost reductions through innovation and standardization will have more of a positive effect on the offshore sector than cyclical oil-price increases, an OTC panel of industry participants agreed.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions received approval for 25 materials to American Petroleum Institute API-16C specification relative to oil and gas choke and kill valve requirements. This represents the largest number of materials compliant to the standard available from any seal manufacturer, according to Trelleborg. The certification dictates a brine/diesel chemical compo…

Tyrone Jeffers joined SPX Flow as VP, global manufacturing and supply chain. He was also appointed as an officer of the company and will be a member of the executive leadership team reporting directly to President and CEO Marc Michael. He will succeed David Kowalski, president, global manufacturing operations, who plans to retire in the second half of 2018. Jeffers jo…

Oceaneering's self-contained, battery-powered (cage-mounted 100-kW battery pack) remotely operated vehicle (E-ROV) system performs common ROV tasks including inspection, valve operation, torque tool operation, and manipulator-related activities. The system interfaces with the company's onshore Mission Support Center via a 4G mobile broadband signal transmitted from a …

The 50th edition of the Offshore Technology Conference kicked off with a distinguished panel representing operators and service companies evaluating the contributions of the past half century.

SUEZ’s Water Technologies & Solutions' newly formulated ProSolv HS scavenges H2S levels to customer target KPIs without phase separation upsets that affect water quality or salt in condensate. The non-nitrogen-based chemistry is safer to deploy compared to nitrogen-containing scavengers which adversely impact refining processes with the formation of salts and costly c…

Stress Engineering Services' new NeoSight platform leverages and supplements new or existing digitalization efforts, integrating directly with existing business systems in real time or near real time. This reduces the time to action from days, or months, to minutes. A physics-based digital twin model is built into each NeoSight tool, which accurately simulates asset r…

Kreuz Subsea mobilized the Kreuz Challenger, a diving support vessel, as part of its 7-year contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum Company. The contract runs until 2022 and includes inspection, repair, and maintenance services to be carried out on offshore oil and gas structures.

Total is expanding its development and use of artificial intelligence to bolster its exploration work, collaborating with Google Cloud—which is stepping up its presence in the oil and gas industry.