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Independent global completions service company Tendeka has secured a four-year contract with Equinor to deliver sand-face completion equipment for its Troll field. The agreement, which offers an additional five two-year extension periods, will see Tendeka install up to 100,000 m of sand screens annually with its FloSure Autonomous Inflow Control Devices (AICDs). Deplo…

Reliance Industries has awarded TechnipFMC subsea contracts for the deepwater MJ1 field in the Krishna Godavari basin offshore eastern India. The contracts cover the fabrication and installation of flexible risers, rigid and flexible flowlines, and umbilicals. MJ1 is a high-pressure/high-temperature gas field in water depths ranging between 3,280 and 3,937 ft. The fie…

With almost 10 Bcf/D of liquefaction capacity scheduled to go into service by 2025, a new report from Moody’s says that US LNG exports should help solidify a floor under natural gas prices as LNG markets see a shortfall in supply.

The confluence of alternative energies, shifting public sentiment, and the industry’s own improvements to existing fields may upend the industry’s “engine of growth.”

Completion comes despite two cyclones disrupting the project area during installation, McDermott said.

Kuwait Oil Co. signed a $597-million offshore drilling services contract with Halliburton for six high-pressure/high-temperature exploration wells on two jackup rigs in the Arabian Gulf.

As Permian production ramps up and saltwater disposal well capacity is pushed to its limit, companies see a need to develop collaborative, commercially viable methods of handling produced-water volumes. If reuse remains at its current rate of only 15%, operators could face a $30-billion tab.

A study by a real-time monitoring company showed that many coiled-tubing strings are retired with a lot of life left in them. It suggested companies could lower costs by using pipe for a longer time and could benefit from multicompany studies showing how their decisions compare to the competition.

The biennial SPE Offshore Europe conference will explore a diverse set of topics, including the application of digital technologies and preparing for a low-carbon energy future and ongoing work around standardization and decommissioning.

In this paper, the authors present an open-source tool kit for the generation of microfabricated transparent models of porous media (micromodels) from image data sets using optically transparent 3D polymer additive manufacturing (3D printing or sintering).

In recent times, we have been inundated with articles concerning the oil and gas industry’s race toward digitalization and automation. The pillars of such a transformation are the rapidly evolving industrial Internet of things, secure cloud computing, data analytics, AI, and machine learning.

This paper is part of an ongoing effort to minimize the likelihood of failure using data-mining and machine-learning algorithms.