Offshore articles from August 2003

Offshore archives from August 2003

Giving tophole top priority.(Comment)
August 1, 2003... Deepwater wells continue a seemingly endless march toward greater complexity. All types of specialized materials and technologies have been developed to allow these wells to succeed. Everything from synthetic muds to expandable tubulars have...

New perforating system helps Statoil increase field potential by 20%.(Performance Profile #85)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Offshore Norway--An oil well in Statoil's Norne Field encountered unexpected sand production, seriously limiting its productivity. This problem, combined with water breakthrough in the original perforations, led to the well being shut in. ...

In mid-June, BG Group Plc. and partners Shell Egypt NV and Edison International.(Mediterranean)
August 1, 2003... In mid-June, BG Group Plc. and partners Shell Egypt NV and Edison International completed the Rosetta-11 exploration well in the offshore Rosetta concession in file Nile Delta. The Rosetta-11 completes the exploration program in the Rosetta...

The Greenland and Danish governments have agreed on a new petroleum licensing policy for Greenland.(Americas)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The Greenland and Danish governments have agreed on a new petroleum licensing policy for Greenland, including a license round in 2004 for selected areas offshore West Greenland The round will open with a letter of invitation An opening...

Exploration activity could soon be underway off the Bahamas. Kerr-McGee Corp.(Americas)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Exploration activity could soon be underway off the Bahamas. Kerr-McGee Corp. affiliates Kerr-McGee Bahamas Ltd. and Atlantic a Exploration and Production Co. have acquired 100% interest in nine oil and gas licenses offshore the Bahamas. The...

Pre-exploration drilling surveys have been conducted offshore Bahrain to determine the potential impact of drilling on the natural and socio-economic environments.(Middle East)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Pre-exploration drilling surveys have been conducted offshore Bahrain to determine the potential impact of drilling on the natural and socio-economic environments. Emu Ltd. performed six months of pre-exploration drilling surveys for...

Delek Drilling and Dorgaz will invest $10.5 million to drill the Nir 2 prospect.(Middle East)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Delek Drilling and Dorgaz will invest 810.5 million to drill the Nir 2 prospect offshore southern Israel. The Nir 2 well follows the Nir 1 well in the Med Asbdod concession, 12 mi offshore, where natural gas was discovered in August 2000....

The Seven Heads partners have successfully drilled and tested well 48/24-7A offshore.(Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The Seven Heads partners have success fully drilled and tested well 48/24-7A offshore Ireland. Well 48/24-7A is the second production well completed this year and is part eta six-well program that will move the field into production by...

The race is on to attract foreign investment in promising new Asia-Pacific acreage.(Asia-Pacific)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The race is on to attract foreign investment in promising new Asia-Pacific acreage. Forty-six new exploration blocks will b offered in the first Philippines Petroleum Public Contracting Round. The bid area covers 215,000 sq km of onshore...

Getting gas to market offshore South Africa is still a matter of the cart before the horse.(Africa)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Getting gas to market offshore South Africa is still a matter of the cart before the horse. Forrest Oil. in partnership with PetroSA, discovered an estimated 13 tcf of gas in the offshore Ibhubesi field, north of Saldanha Bay. The trick now is...

Sierra Leone's first licensing round received international interest, drawing bids.(Africa)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sierra Leone's first licensing round received international interest, drawing bids from three companies. Repsol-YPF of Spain, Oranto Petroleum of Nigeria, and US company 8 Investments are working out the details of their new acreage with...

The playing field is changing In the Caspian Sea.(Central Asia)
August 1, 2003... The playing field is changing In the Caspian Sea. Gazprom and Lukoil are creating a joint venture to develop the Central oil and gas field in the Russian sector of the Caspian. A new company, TsentrKaspnettegaz, will be set up on a parity...

Vik-Sandvik introduces new supply vessel design.(New Vessels, Rigs, Upgrades)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Vik-Sandvik has designed a new platform supply vessel. The VS 493 Avant features a superstructure aft, which has resulted in a number of benefits, including reduced movement, reduced noise, better hull lines, a simplified cargo area, safer...

Bouchard adds to ATB fleet.(New Vessels, Rigs, Upgrades)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Bollinger Shipyards Inc. has delivered a double-hull articulated ocean-going tug/barge (ATB) to Bouchard Coastwise Management Co. The Jane A. Bouchard and the 430-ft, 110,000-bbl class double-hull oil barge B. No. 225 meet the Oil Pollution...

EBI adds a liftboat.(New Vessels, Rigs, Upgrades)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Elevating Boats Llc. (EBI) has added a 200-ft. class liftboat to its Gulf of Mexico fleet. The Mammoth Elevator, designed and built by EBI has 200 ft of leg and can operate in water depths ranging from 8 to 160 ft. The boat's unique deck and...

Yantai to build a self-propelled jackup.(New Vessels, Rigs, Upgrades)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Yantai-Raffles Shipyard has signed a contract with Oases Offshore Nigeria Ltd. to build a new generation self-propelled jackup. Zentech carried out detailed design work on the rig, which can work in 210 ft water depth. The jackup is a...

Unity begins production.(New Vessels, Rigs, Upgrades)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Elf Petroleum Nigeria Ltd.'s new Unity FPSO began producing crude oil from Nigeria's Odudu field in late 2Q 2003. The Unity replaces the Domy FPSO. The Unity, with a storage capacity of 2.4 MMbbl, will be linked to all of Elf's fields on...

Deepwater continues to disappoint.(Offshore Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Norway's oil and gas reserves have been down-graded by 7% to 12.8 bcm of oil equivalent. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate says its latest estimate reflects revised thinking about the Norwegian Sea's undiscovered gas resources. NPD has also...

Life extension for Tampen fields.(Offshore Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Gullfaks, one of Statoil's flagship North Sea fields, has reached the 1.88 Bbbl output mark--570 MMbbl above the original production forecast. Statoil puts the increased upside down primarily to use of advanced well engineering, 4D seismic, and...

CNR's French test.(Offshore Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... CNR is planning to drill the first exploratory well in the French Channel in seven yea's, using the semisubmersible John Shaw. The company has been awarded four blocks in the Finistere-Atlantique area, off northwest Brittany. The targeted...

Expansion plans for Dan and Halfdan.(Offshore Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Danish oil production set a new record last year of 21.5 MMcm, up 6% from the 2001 total. In its latest annual report, the Danish Energy Authority attributes the rise mainly to increased production from Maersk's Halfdan field, currently,...

Record depth for UK discovery.(Offshore Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Total E&P UK says it has made a significant gas discovery on its Elgin/Franklin acreage in the central North Sea. The jackup Magellan spudded the well last September to evaluate the West Franklin prospect, in 93 m of water in block 29/5b. It...

Holstein spar hull to be mated in GoM.(Gulf Of Mexico)
August 1, 2003... The spar for the Holstein project is nearing readiness for its mid-September departure from Finland and a month-long trip to the Gulf of Mexico. BP interface manager for the Holstein at Mardi Gras projects David Noble told the Marine...

Finds at Chinook, Atlas.(Gulf Of Mexico)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... BHP Billiton's second exploratory well at Chinook in Walker Ridge block 469 encountered a 620-ft gross column of hydrocarbons with 260 ft of net oil pay. The C.R. Luigs drilled the well in 8,830 ft of water beyond 27,650 ft TD. The well was...

Properties change hands.(Gulf Of Mexico)
August 1, 2003... Amerada Hess Corp. has sold 26 fields holding an estimated 23 MMboe in reserves to Anadarko Petroleum Corp. for $225 million. About 60% of the reserves are natural gas. Of the purchase price, $190 million was allocated to the proved reserves,...

New TLP design overcomes mating limits.(Subsea/Surface Systems)
August 1, 2003... In the choice between a TLP solution and Spar, one of the major considerations has always been the cost of offshore mating. A conventional TIP is towed to an offshore well site upright, and then ballasted down to be locked off to the tendons....

Multiphase flow meter completes field trials.(Subsea/Surface Systems)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Halliburton Energy Services has completed field trials in Algeria of its non-radioactive multiphase flow meter system--FastQ. The skid-mounted system measures the flow rates of oil water, and gas continuously without mixing or separating of...

Weatherford to install Gunnison riser.(Subsea/Surface Systems)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Weatherford will perform the production riser installation on the Gunnison spar wells for Kerr-McGee. The Gunnison truss spar will be installed in 3,150-ft water depth in Garden Banks block 668 of the Gulf of Mexico. The first riser...

BJ lands pipeline pre-commissioning contract.(Subsea/Surface Systems)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Stolt Offshore Services S.A. awarded BJ Process and Pipeline Services a multi-million dollar contract to provide pipeline pre-commissioning services on several sections of Shell Petroleum Development Co.'s new offshore gas gathering system in...

Sakhalin development.(Drilling & Production)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sakhalin Energy Investment Co. has awarded Swaco, a division of M-I, a $10-million contract to provide solids control, cuttings re-injection, mud mixing, and bulk handling systems for the Sakhalin II project offshore the Sakhalin Islands. ...

New rotary steerable system.(Drilling & Production)(Norsk Hydro using rotary steerable system for drilling)
August 1, 2003... Norsk Hydro selected a rotary steerable system to drill an openhole sidetrack in the A10BY3H well, on the Njord platform, north of the North Sea's Norwegian sector (Norske Hayer). The overall objective of the well was to improve oil recovery...

Predicting open hole data.(Drilling & Production)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... An advanced artificial intelligence method applies neural network techniques to predict openhole log responses from acquired cased hole logs. Halliburton Energy Services developed the method through its logging and perforating product service...

Window exit capabilities.(Drilling & Production)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Enventure Global Technology recently announced the addition of window exit capabilities to their list of solid expandable tubular technology applications. By using their conventional openhole liner (OHI) system, the new capability makes it...

Under-balanced drilling.(Drilling & Production)(Frontier Group)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aberdeen-based Frontier Group recently completed a successful 18-month project to manage the implementation of under-balanced drilling (UBD) for Shell joint venture company Petroleum Development Oman. Frontier participated in planning and...

Morphology.(Geosciences)
August 1, 2003... Form follows function. One of the common tasks of geoscientists is constructing a reservoir's morphology, its shape and configuration in relation to the larger tectionic fabric it encased within. Acoustic methods work well for mapping horizons,...

Total cluster.(Geosciences)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Total has purchased an SGI supercluster for its exploration and production department at its technical center in Pau, France. The 256-processor SGI Altix 3000 will be used fur seismic processing applications, will complement the company's...

North Sea Q-survey.(Exploration)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... WesternGaco has completed a contract from ChevronTexaco for a Q-marine 3D survey over the Captain field in the outer Moray Firth of the UK North Sea. The goal of the survey is to deliver much clearer image of the field's internal architecture...

SGI clusters.(Technology)(Silicon Graphics debuts new workstation)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Silicon Graphics has unveiled a new workstation, the Tezro. The new system use up to four 700-MHz RISC processors with 4 Mb of L2 cache, has 3.2 Gb/sec-bandwidth memory and input/output architecture, and can address up to 16 GB of memory....

Satellite communication.(Technology)(Telenor Satellite Services)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Telenor Satellite Services is covering new regions, including the coastal US, Caribbean, and coastal South America, with Ku-band satellite service. The service opens high-speed data communication, LAN and WAN connectivity, and Internet access...

UK shelf providing opportunities for independents of all sizes: "newcomers" comprise half the current players.(Special report: independents in the North Sea)(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2003... For years, the UK North Sea looked to be in terminal decline. Exploration drilling dropped steadily and fabrication yards wound down, while the majors looked on with seeming indifference. Aside from one or two new projects, their minds were on...

Talisman branching out into Norway.(Special report: independents in the North Sea)
August 1, 2003... The rapid emergence of a new order in the North Sea could be compared to the lifting of the Iron Curtain. "There is a sense that we're on the cusp of change," says Paul Blakeley, Talisman Energy UK vice president. "with BP leading the way in...

DNO aiming for second major field revival.(Special report: independents in the North Sea)
August 1, 2003... DNO's work on Heather in the UK Northern North Sea is a model for aspiring operators. What previous operator Unocal saw as a liability has been turned into a productive asset, with a remaining service life estimated at 11 years. Under Unocal,...

In-line separation technique brings big efficiency gains for Statoil.(Offshore Europe)
August 1, 2003... Statoil has achieved substantial improvements in offshore processing through the development of in-line separation technology. Simple, compact, and flexible, the technology can be retrofitted to existing separation systems as well as being...

Ramco paving the way for gas exports from southern Ireland; Seven Heads sets scene for further developments.(Offshore Europe)
August 1, 2003... Gas should shortly start flowing from the Seven Heads field in the Celtic Sea. The project is notable as only the third Irish sector development in three decades (another, Shell's Corrib, was suspended this spring after encountering landfall...

New initiatives may revive declining North Sea exploration.(Offshore Europe)
August 1, 2003... Although exploratory drilling in the North Sea has declined steadily during the last five years, new government an industry initiatives may provide the impetus to reverse that trend. The primary cause of reduced exploratory drilling has...

Lukoil/Seaway progressing first Russian Baltic project.(Offshore Europe)
August 1, 2003... Lukoil is leading the first offshore development in the Baltic Sea off the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. The Kravtsovskoye oil field in block D6, which is operated by the Russian company's subsidiary Lukoil-Kaliningradmorneft, is due to come...

Atlantic Canada to see more drilling; disappointments don't dull optimism.(Eastern Canada)
August 1, 2003... Production is up from Newfoundland and Labrador's Terra Nova field, and the White Rose project is on target for production in the second half of 2005. Nova Scotia is seeing an active drilling season, and the groundwork is being laid for even...

Faroes, Shetland wells could inspire cross-border development.(Atlantic Margin)
August 1, 2003... After a gap of nearly two years, drilling has resumed off The Faroes, a small group of islands midway between Scotland and Iceland. Eni found only traces of hydrocarbons with the first well on License 002, in partnership with Faroese oil...

The Schiehallion bogie bearing design applied to large-diameter FPSO turrets.(FPSO Operations)
August 1, 2003... BP selected SBM Inc.'s large-diameter internal turret to moor the Schiehallion FPSO in the harsh environments offshore the Shetlands in the Atlantic Frontier area. This internal turret allows the FPSO to freely weathervane while transferring...

FPSOs lead strong growth in floating production sector.(FPSO Operations)
August 1, 2003... The third edition of "The World Floating Production Report" recently published by energy industry analysts Douglas-Westwood and industry data specialists Infield Systems forecasts strong growth in FPSO, Spar, and TLP installations over the next...

GFPSOs could capitalize stranded gas.(FPSO Operations)
August 1, 2003... Remote dry gas fields often fail to be produced because of either technical economic factors. Where no gas pipeline infrastructure is available, FPSOs primarily process oil and simply re-inject associated gas. Rethinking FPSO capabilities could...

Gulf of Mexico key to US gas future.(Gulf Of Mexico)
August 1, 2003... Wide variations in natural gas prices over the past few years have led to speculation regarding future prices, supply, and demand. Because the Gulf of Mexico outer continental shelf account. for about 26% of domestic natural gas production and...

Foam-assisted injection trials could spread to other North Sea fields.(Production Enhancement)
August 1, 2003... Statoil has begun a pilot program of foam-assisted water alternating gas (Fawag) injection on the Statford field, seeking to extend the benefits this technology has brought on the Snorre field. The injection program was completed in June...

Cased-hole sand-control completions work well in wells off Angola: case study from the Girassol field.(Production Enhancement)
August 1, 2003... Cased-hole completions with frac packs have proven to be relatively simple and low-risk options and have shown good production performance with no screen plugging or production falloff in development wells in the Girassol field offshore Angola....

Shell drills record tieback well to counter sand, watercut problems; 148 MMcf/d production saves Mensa.(Production Enhancement)
August 1, 2003... The Mensa field in the Gulf of Mexico has long held the record for the world's, longest subsea tieback, 68 mi. Located in 5,300-ft water depth, the three Mensa wells account for 10% of Shell's gas production in the Gulf of Mexico. Joe...

Early sand detection can prolong life of equipment, increase production; acoustic system may offer solution.(Production Enhancement)
August 1, 2003... One of the problems with the highly productive fields off the East Coast of Trinidad is that they are producing from very young sands. The production on BP Trinidad and Tobago's flagship Mahogany field, for example, comes from a formation that...

Reducing deepwater finding costs with systemic approach to multi-well projects.(Drilling Technology)
August 1, 2003... The price of a barrel of oil relative to its finding and development cost determines whether a field is economically viable. The billion-barrel fields recently discovered in ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico can support the high "spread costs"...

Real time information reduces downtime on GOM rigs; Halliburton and Shell partner on center.(Drilling Technology)
August 1, 2003... A variety of technologies has been gathered to allow experts from Shell and Halliburton to monitor every well the operator drills in the Gulf of Mexico. The goal is to improve efficiency and reduce downtime on the rig. What started as a...

Bit durability and ROP are key to advanced drilling methods.(Drilling Technology)
August 1, 2003... The complexity and costs of drilling modern wellbores constantly challenge the design of roller cone and fixed cutter drill bits. Durability and penetration rates continue to be key areas of focus as the means to improve drilling economics and...

Thrusters allow station-keeping ability in blackout.(Equipment/Engineering)
August 1, 2003... When Global Industries converted the Titan 2 heavy lift vessel for dynamic positioning (DP), the Louisiana-based company saw more benefits than expected. Although not one of the original goals, one result of the conversion was a vessel that can...

Integrated communications eases transport of Songo Songo gas to Tanzania.(Equipment/Engineering)(Songo Songo Island)
August 1, 2003... By April 2004, natural gas from Songo Songo Island, off the coast of Tanzania, will be extracted, treated, transported by a new pipeline to the Mbungo power station near Dar es Salaam, and converted into electricity for the ever-increasing...

Risers to revive Ardmore field.(Riser Technology)(the United Kingdom's first offshore oilfield)(Tuscan Energy and partner Acorn North Sea)
August 1, 2003... New operator Tuscan Energy and partner Acorn North Sea are re-developing Ardmore, the UK's first offshore oilfield, formerly known as Argyll. Production originally started in 1975 but was discontinued in 1992 when operations were deemed to...

New Quik-Loq[TM] BOP safer with ram changeout faster than conventional.(Blow Out Preventer )
August 1, 2003... A new BOP design from Hydril called Quik-Loq[TM] maximizes safety of field personnel and protection of the environment, eliminates the need for tools, and increases efficiency by allowing ram and/or operator changeout in a matter of minutes...

Versatile recorder capable of internal inspections.(Riser Technology)
August 1, 2003... An important advance in riser inspection technology was the Riser Active Data Acquisition Recorder, introduced by ABB Vetco Gray in 2001. The company is now preparing for the launch later this year of Radar-V, which will be capable of carrying...

Mid-water arch support suppresses touchdown point forces.(ABB Anchor Contracting: riser technology)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... ABB Anchor Contracting's riser support system provides a competitive solution for riser support in both conventional and deepwater. The system has been installed on both Statoil's Asgard and Esso Norge's Ringhorne developments in the Norwegian...

Frigg and Ekofish programs signal new era for abandonment.(ConocoPhillips, North Sea decommisioning)
August 1, 2003... Platform decommissioning in the North Sea has been a long time coming, but upcoming abandonment projects on the Ekofisk and Frigg fields herald the start of a new level of activity. ConocoPhillips is in the early stages of implementing its...

TPG 500 jackup adapted for platform installation and removal.(Technip-Coflexip, North Sea decommisioning)
August 1, 2003... TPG 500 IDV is a new installation/decommissioning vessel concept, developed by Technip-Coflexip, for operations in water depths to 120 m. It is designed to remove packages of 14,000 tons in a single operation and has a total elevating capacity...

2003 MWD/LWD Services Directory.(measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services)(Directory)
August 1, 2003... This year's MWD/LWD Services Directory provides an updated and expanded worldwide directory of services in the global measurement-while-drilling (MWD) and logging-while-drilling (LWD) market. For quick and easy referencing, the directory...

Ocean-bottom survey acquisition design for 3D converted waves: seismic objective and [V.sub.p]/[V.sub.s] ratio constrain survey design.(Geosciences)
August 1, 2003... When the goal of seismic acquisition design is to record both pressure (P-wave) and converted wave (C-wave) data with the same acquisition geometry, one way to approach this issue is by using basic design principles and determining the...

Distributed visualization for oil and gas: sharing visualization resources across the enterprise.(Geosciences)(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2003... Advances in hardware and software capabilities for scientific visualization have resulted in a growing interest ha its utilization as an effective competitive tool for enterprises in various market segments. High-quality immersive visualization...

Dutch contractors chasing new opportunities in Caspian, Brazil, Africa.(Netherlands)(Association of Dutch Suppliers in the Oil and Gas Industry)(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2003... Business prospects throughout the main offshore sectors look generally sound for Dutch contractors. The one worrying exception is their own back yard, due to the government's refusal to backtrack on negative taxation measures. These could...

HBG looking beyond North Sea for construction opportunities.(Netherlands)(HBG Steel Structures)(Company Profile)
August 1, 2003... Project cutbacks in the North Sea have hit high-end fabricators hardest, forcing several European yards out of business. The smaller platform specialists have struggled less, as incremental gas field activity has been sustained. One of the...

Goldeneye pipeline pull adapted for dunes crossing.(Netherlands)
August 1, 2003... Installation of the pipelines and landfall for Shell's Goldeneye project is nearing the midway point. Goldeneye is a gas-condensate field situated in 120 m of water in the Outer Moray Firth, off northeast Scotland. The field is being developed...

Keppel Verolme moving into new business areas.(Netherlands)(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 1, 2003... Keppel Verolme is poised to enter new business segments, including rig building, new-build completion, servicing of LNG carriers, and conversion and upgrading of FPSO/FSO projects. The company, former Verolme Botlek yard in Rotterdam and...

Converted pipelayer to join deepwater fleet.(Netherlands)(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 1, 2003... Last summer, Torch Offshore commissioned Huisman Special Lifting Equipment to design and build a new J-lay pipelay system for the Midnight Express. The latter, formerly a 500-ft long lash container carrier vessel Smit Express, is undergoing...

Caspian platforms designed for seismic shocks.(Netherlands)
August 1, 2003... Phase 2 of the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli development project in the Azeri sector of the Caspian will feature two 48-slot production, drilling, and quarters platforms known as East Azeri and West Azeri. Both platform's drilling facilities will be...

Molded products protect risers, cut VIV strake volumes.(Netherlands)(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 1, 2003... Lankhorst/Mouldings has been active in the marine industry for nearly two centuries, developing and manufacturing rope and mooring products. Following its merger with the Portuguese Grupo Euronete in 1998, the combined company claims to be...

SAS extends single source track record with Nigerian pipelay spreads.(Netherlands)(SAS Gouda)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Since delivering its first pipe tensioner 35 years ago, SAS Gouda has become one of the leading designers of rigid and flexible pipelay systems for shallow and deepwater. Its current capability includes S- and J-lay pipe handling, tensioner,...

Pile grippers secure two-phase jacket installation.(Netherlands)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 1, 2003... Every platform needs secure foundations. IHC Handling Systems is playing its part with a series of tools that ease deployment of large-diameter tubular piles. Two of its systems were recently proven on a problematic jacket installation in the...

Doedijns.(Dutch offshore technology)
August 1, 2003... The Dutch Fluitronics organization has several offices active in three main disciplines: hydraulics, pneumatics, and instrumentation. The instrumentation division supplies components and complete systems for measurement, control, and data...

HBG Steel Structures.(Dutch offshore technology)
August 1, 2003... HBG Steel Structures is an offshore fabricator specializing in turnkey projects for the oil and gas industry. The company, part of the HBG group, has delivered platforms, modules, jackets and living quarters, often with a high degree of...

Keppel Verolme.(Dutch offshore technology)
August 1, 2003... Since 1975, the company has undertaken all types of modifications, upgradings, conversions, and (damage) repairs. Its yard in Rotterdam can accommodate semi-submersibles, jackup drilling rigs, FPSOs, and other mobile offshore units. The...

Mokveld valves.(Dutch offshore technology)
August 1, 2003... Mokveld is a Dutch manufacturer of engineered, low maintenance valves for control and safety applications in the oil and gas industry. The company, which has 10 offices worldwide, is ISO 9001/2000 certified and also holds PED and ATEX approval...

Rosen.(Dutch offshore technology)
August 1, 2003... Rosen inspects complex and sensitive engineering structures, such as oil and gas pipeline systems and above-ground storage tanks, to identify features affecting their structural integrity. In-line inspection services cover pipelines up to...