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This article highlights some of the code and registration issues the Savvy Separator engineer encounters when retrofitting a vessel with internals to improve or restore the process performance of the separator.

Trelleborg's skirt pile gripper is designed to create a temporary connection between an offshore platform's pile and the jacket during the grouting process. Welded onto the upper section of the jacket skirt pile, the gripper reduces risk during platform installation. Until the grout between the pile and the jacket has set and the installation is complete, the gripper …

Sparrows Group named Matt Corbin as its regional operations director for the UK and Europe. Corbin has more than 20 years of industry experience, having held several leadership positions including UK managing director for the subsea division at Aker and UK regional manager at GE Oil & Gas. Most recently he was the supply chain consultant for the Oil and Gas Authority,…

The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland developed a drone that becomes the package that wraps around the cargo (weighing up to 500 grams) before flight, just like a mail package. The foldable carbon-fiber cage protects the drone and the cargo in case of a collision or fall. The recipient can catch the drone mid-flight without being injured b…

Tiny soil samples may contain as many as 300,000 species of microbial life, but a Netherlands-based startup has figured out that between 50 and 200 of them can tell an operator if a drilling location will hold oil and gas reserves.

Decom North Sea has developed the Late Life Planning Portal system, a web-based information portal, to capture tools that add value as well as good practices and lessons learned from the execution of decommissioning projects.

This paper aims to develop a Brazilian baseline for front-end planning and cost estimation of the decommissioning, removal, and disposal options.

To reduce the risk of wells getting “frac hits,” Permian Basin operators around Midland created an information exchange to give them notice of nearby fracturing.

Many of the biggest players in the industry—particularly the majors—have adapted their portfolios for “lower for longer” and are once again sanctioning big projects. While we are not back to the heady days of 2010–2014, we have left behind the dark days of 2015–2016.

Using decision analysis as a software tool helps to clarify and evaluate decommissioning alternatives against a comprehensive set of objectives, including both market and nonmarket values.

Whether you are involved in the design and construction of new facilities or the decommissioning of existing facilities, having a solid understanding of decom makes a lot of sense. Are you ready as all around the world offshore facilities have reached, or are reaching, the end of their design life?

It’s no secret that oil majors are among the biggest corporate emitters of pollution. What may be surprising is that they’re reducing their greenhouse-gas footprints every year, actively participating in a trend that’s swept up most corporate behemoths.