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	BP Quad milestone for Babcock’s Rosyth site 30th July 2015 Two highly engineered Manifolds, the largest and most complex constructions within the project, have been manufactured, painted and outfitted, at Babcock’s Rosyth Facility on the Forth. With the combined...
	The Culzean development 29th July 2015 Maersk Oil and its co-venturers are investing around £3 bn (USD 4.5 bn) in the Culzean development, with more than 50% committed to industrial investment in the UK. Over the projected life of the field,...
	EM&I Diverless UWILD Contract for Vantage Drilling 28th July 2015 EM&I has successfully completed the first phase of a contract to conduct an ODIN® Alternative UWILD (underwater inspection in lieu of drydock) on Vantage Drilling's Platinum Explorer (PLX) Ultra...
	Z-line composite fibre optic sensing campaigns provide well diagnostics for Statoil 22nd July 2015 Ziebel, a Stavanger-based provider of specialist well intervention services for the oil and gas industry, announced that it successfully completed a distributed fiber optic (DFO) sensing campaign for...
	Sub-Atlantic seals second ROV deal with AALEA Offshore 22nd July 2015 The contract will see Sub-Atlantic deliver one of its class-leading Tomahawk observation ROV systems. The Tomahawk has been optimised as a survey system. It is configured with intelligent interfaces...
	Halliburton introduces formation evaluation service 21st July 2015 Relying on only one or two independent measurements can reduce the accuracy of results depending on conditions in the formation and formation fluids. The RMT-3D tool allows operators to calculate...
	InterMoor successfully completes Juniper contract offshore Trinidad and Tobago 21st July 2015 The final stage of the project involved hooking up Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.’s Ocean Victory semisubmersible drilling rig to the preset mooring spread InterMoor had previously installed. This step...
	Baker Hughes introduces revolutionary technology for cement evaluation 20th July 2015 Baker Hughes has released its Integrity eXplorer cement evaluation service: a radical change in the evaluation of the cement integrity of oil and gas wells. Existing evaluation techniques, which have been...
	Nigeria’s new president must reform oil sector 16th July 2015 Young Okunna, GlobalData’s Upstream Analyst covering Sub-Saharan Africa, says Nigeria’s oil and gas sector could be rejuvenated by capitalizing on the opportunity to rebuild investor confidence following...
	Increasing demand boosts sales for deep casing tools 15th July 2015 This development has resulted in sales in excess of half a million pounds this year to new clients alone. Deep Casing Tools provides a range of innovative tools designed to land casing and completions at...