Group items tagged

BP has opened its first-ever UK centre dedicated to training and development via life-size simulators, augmented reality and 3D visualization capability. Offshore-Technology's Heidi Vella was invited to the centre to experience the centre first-hand. In July, BP opened the doors to its shiny-new Upstream Learning Centre built on spare land at its International Centre for Business and Technology (ICBT) in Sunbury-on-Thames.

The Jack / St Malo deepwater project comprises the joint development of the Jack and St Malo oilfields, which are situated in the Gulf of Mexico. The fields are located 40km away from each other.The Jack field lies in Walker Ridge blocks 758 and...

The world's 10 biggest oil producing countries account for over 65% of the world's total oil output with Saudi Arabia, the United States and Russia - the top 3 oil producers - contributing significantly more than all seven other countries put together.Offshore-technology.com profiles the 10 biggest oil producing countries based on the latest production data.

Oil and gas rigs are some of the biggest moveable structures in the world. Modern rigs cost millions of dollars and can weigh up to 30,000 tons. So what does it take to move these engineering marvels? We ask David Wells, CEO of consultancy, and rig-moving specialists, Aqualis Offshore.

Petronas Floating Liquefied Natural Gas - 2 (PFLNG - 2) Project involves the installation of a new FLNG facility at the deepwater Rotan Gas field located in Block H within the South China Sea, offshore Sabah.

Five of the world's ten richest oil and gas billionaires are from Russia; two are based in the US, while surprisingly only one hails from the Middle East. Offshore-technology.com profiles the world's richest oil and gas tycoons based on Forbes' calculations of net worth as of the end of July 2014.

Business owners take all possible steps to ensure customer satisfaction. One of the most successful and recommended strategies in this regard is to begin with a virtual receptionist service. This service brings in extra representatives for a business and eases the lives of the customers. When the customers have questions or queries to be answered or any problems to be solved, they try to reach the authoritative body telephonically and it is not uncommon for them for not having to been able to do so. This is where the need for virtual receptionists comes in. Virtual receptionists are basically persons who work for the customer support but do not work from the office or any specified location.

What started as a low-profile trip by the PM to Shetland to announce a household energy policy and pat a pony has become an under the radar inspection of an oil field with the potential to tear apart the union. Are the UK government and BP in cahoots or is it just 'utter nonsense'?

MT 6024 is a multi-purpose subsea diving support and construction vessel (DSCV) being built for Thailand-based Mermaid Offshore Services, a subsidiary of the Mermaid Maritime Public Company. The vessel is being built by China Merchants Industry Holdings (CMHI) in China, with construction of the DSCV commencing in January; delivery of the vessel is scheduled for the third quarter of 2016.

We round up the most innovative oil spill recovery technologies including a chemically modified nanocellulose sponge from Switzerland's Empa, new research into bacteria from the University of East Anglia, and other technological and theoretical breakthroughs. Rod James investigates.

Oil spills in the Baltic Sea have continued to drop off in recent years as a result of various authoritative measures, revised legislation and improved aerial and satellite surveillance. Ross Davies takes a closer look at the region's success story Some years back, the Baltic Sea had something of a reputation as being a cradle for oil spills.The figures speak for themselves.

The year 2013 witnessed some significant milestones in renewable power generation and transmission, inculding the opening of some of the world's biggest wind, solar and bio-gasification plants. Power-technology.com picks the ten biggest clean energy developments from 2013. The London Array, the world's biggest offshore wind farm, at 630MW installed capacity was opened in July 2013.

Norway-based Aptomar has partnered with several key industry players as part of a new research project to improve oil spill management via communication infrastructure and management systems.

Founded in January 2012, the Arctic Oil Spill Response Technology Joint Industry Programme (JIP) has just moved into phase II of its research. As it tests the waters in six different areas - and welcomes its latest member Gazprom Neft - what lies ahead for response teams working in icy conditions?

Against a background of escalating tension between the US and Russia over events in Ukraine, oil companies from each country have been working to overcome the numerous challenges of extracting oil from the Arctic Ocean. Having completed one of the largest Arctic expeditions in history to understand the challenges, the partnership has now started to drill.

Atlanta Field is a post-salt oil field located 185km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro in Block BS-4 of Santos Basin, at a water depth of 1,550m. First production from the field is expected in mid-2016.

On the fourth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) released a report detailing the spill's ongoing impacts.