The oil and gas industry innovates to exploit hydrocarbon resources in harsh environments or locations where access is difficult. In recent years, the focus of these operational challenges has been on ...

Aker Solutions contracted by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) to supply deepwater drilling riser. The 10 000 ft deepwater drilling CLIP riser system will be manufactured and delivered ...

Similar to pipelines or flowlines, risers transport produced hydrocarbons, as well as production materials, such as injection fluids, control fluids and gas lift. Usually insulated to withstand ...

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.DO has inked a Joint Development Agreement with Trelleborg's offshore operation to develop, manufacture and market the Helical Buoyancy riser technology developed by the ...

July 30, 2009—Kumano Basin off Kii Peninsula, approximately 58 km southeast of Japan— Despite harsh atmospheric and ocean conditions, and complex geological characteristics of its drill site, the deep ...

Drilling capability played a major role in Shell´s decision-making process when it came to the ultimate design of its Perdido regional host. The operator´s innovative direct vertical access spar ...

July 30, 2009—Kumano Basin off Kii Peninsula, approximately 58 km southeast of Japan— Despite harsh weather and ocean conditions, and complex geological characteristics of its drill site, the deep-sea ...

The deep-sea drilling vessel CHIKYU successfully completed riser drilling operations on August 31, for IODP Expedition 319, Stage 2, of the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment. The CHIKYU is ...

According to SBM, the system will relocate a suspended drilling riser with a drilling riser tensioner and surface blowout preventer in-place without removing them from the wellbay, making it possible ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AFGlobal today announced they have signed a Frame Agreement with ExPert Riser Solutions, LLC that will bring together the companies’ marine drilling riser inspection and ...

HOUSTON, May 4-- As others prepare to field test subsea pumps for dual gradient drilling in ultradeep water, Stewart & Stevenson Service Inc.'s Petroleum Equipment Division in Houston has introduced ...

The deep-sea drilling vessel CHIKYU, for the first time in the history of scientific ocean drilling, conducted riser-drilling operations to drill successfully down to a depth of 1,603.7 meters beneath ...