Harvey Leaves Texans to Clean Up Amid Health and Environmental Dangers Harvey has moved on from the US Gulf Coast, leaving behind a toxic stew of human sewage, dead cattle, leaking chemical plants, spilled gasoline storage tanks and abandoned pickup trucks. The cleanup will…
Offshore oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico have continued re-boarding their platforms following Tropical Storm Harvey with less than two percent platforms remaining evacuated and seven percent of oil production shut-in. In its final activity statistics update issued on the 4th…
Texo DSI (UKCS) Ltd, the offshore division of Texo Drone Survey and Inspection, has carried out the first ever Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) survey-grade LiDAR scan of an offshore asset, combined with ground-based Simultaneous Location and Mapping (SLAM). A team from Texo DSI (UKCS)…
International oilfield services company, Expro, has secured a five-year master services agreement with Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Limited, for well services across its UK North Sea assets. The contract is valued at US$8 million (£5 million) for the first calendar year, which will be…
Energy sector’s engineering company, Semco Maritime, has been chosen to upgrade and prepare the West Elara jack-up rig for a new assignment for ConocoPhillips. Following the upgrade, the rig will sail out to undertake a long-term contract in the North Sea for ConocoPhillips, starting…
Hurricane Harvey will likely wind up being the most expensive natural disaster in American history, costing the economy about US$190 billion, according to AccuWeather. In fact, the weather forecasting firm predicts it will wind up costing more than Katrina and Sandy combined. “This…
Few people care about ethylene. Many have probably never heard of it. As it turns out, this colourless, flammable gas is arguably the most important petrochemical on the planet — and much of it comes from the hurricane-stricken Gulf Coast. Ethylene is one…
Offshore container solutions specialist Swire Oilfield Services has been awarded a seven-figure contract with the Norwegian oil services company Aker Solutions related to the Johan Sverdrup field development off Norway. Swire Oilfield Services said that the contract with Aker Solutions was for the provision…
Total oil volumes shipped by Gazprom Neft in the Russian Arctic has reached ten million metric tons (11 million tons), with the latest 100,000-metric ton (110,231-ton) consignment of light Novy Port oil shipped to customers from the Umba floating storage and offtake (FSO) tanker. The facility, in the harbour…
Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi has held a meeting with Edson Dos Santos, a director of Angolan oil company Sonangol, saying that he required the company to restart work in the Qayara and Najmah oil fields. According to a statement from the Ministry…
