Aker Solutions has won a contract to provide umbilicals for the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup, Utgard and Bauge developments offshore Norway.

GATE Energy has been selected as the provider for facility commissioning of the Leviathan Project Platform for Noble Energy Mediterranean Ltd. The associated scope includes topside commissioning planning, onshore commissioning execution and offshore commissioning services of the Production Platform for the Leviathan Field Development Project.

On Thursday, November 9, the opening of the Valemon control room was celebrated at Sandsli in Bergen. Valemon will be the first platform in Statoil’s portfolio to be remote-controlled from land.

Statoil is signing a letter of intent with Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters Pte. Ltd in Singapore for the construction of the hull and integrated living quarters for the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel that will be located on the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea.

With well intervention and P&A activity ramping up from Mauritania to Angola, operators are working more collaboratively with contractors taking advantage of new business development opportunities offshore West Africa.

Danos has completed water injection piping work for an offshore platform operated by a major oil and gas producer subsidiary off the coast of Equatorial Guinea. The on-time, incident-free fabrication project was completed at Danos’ Amelia Integrated Services Complex.

Leading international oilfield services company, Expro, has been awarded a two-year contract to provide well testing services for INEOS, a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, speciality chemicals and oil products.

Well-Centric, a leading independent specialist in well integrity and production technology solutions for the oil and gas industry, will launch a new compact milling tool at the SPE ICOTA Well Intervention Conference this month.

Leading international oilfield services company, Expro, has been awarded a five-year contract extension for surface well testing services across several assets for an operator in the UK North Sea.

LUX Assure, a specialist in the provision of chemical monitoring and management solutions, has re-developed its successful CoMic™ technology to create the world’s first operator-deployable corrosion inhibitor micelle detection tool.

The development of CoMic was inspired by technologies being used in the life sciences and was first deployed in 2012. It works to maintain asset integrity through delivering effective corrosion management, by informing the management of corrosion inhibitors and providing data on the optimal level of corrosion inhibitor.

CoMic identifies the presence of corrosion inhibitor micelles in oilfield fluids, by using these nanoscale aggregates of chemical as a marker for optimal dosage. Previously all testing was done on-site by LUX Assure specialists, but in response to a direct call from oil and gas operators LUX has redeveloped CoMic into a solution which can now be deployed in the field by on-site personnel, with minimal training required.

Emma Perfect, CEO at LUX Assure

Emma Perfect, CEO at LUX Assure, explains the catalyst behind the new product: “The redevelopment of CoMic as an on-site, operator-deployable testing kit has been in direct response to feedback from both our clients and the wider industry, who have witnessed first-hand how CoMic can enhance their corrosion management regimes.

“Until now, micelle detection required LUX personnel to undertake on-site sample testing. Not only can this cause logistical issues, and additional costs for clients, but the process can also be delayed whilst travel is arranged and bed space sought. A simple product that can be deployed by existing personnel alleviates these issues, reducing costs and logistical requirements. It also allows operators to deal with any concerns more promptly, and to look at trends in corrosion inhibitor availability over time.”

The newly redeveloped technology aligns with a call from industry to upskill local workforces. Ms Perfect continues: “On-site staff, be they from operator or service companies, can now be trained to gather and test samples in situ. The instrumentation is robust and simple to operate, resulting in easier, and therefore more frequent data collection.

“In turn, this means better ongoing monitoring and control of assets which may be subject to corrosion. The data collected by CoMic remains critical to system performance and associated cost efficiencies, by detecting whether pumps are operating at optimum levels, or require an adjustment of corrosion inhibitor dosage.

“As an oil and gas technology firm which is focused on innovation to address the oil and gas industry’s most prominent concerns, LUX Assure continues to invest in research and development to develop an industry-leading portfolio of solutions.”

LUX Assure products, CoMic™ and OMMICA™, together represent a revolution in monitoring and managing difficult-to-detect chemicals on-site in oil, condensates and water, specifically the thermodynamic hydrate inhibitors and corrosion inhibitors used to protect oilfield assets, on and offshore.

Harvey Gulf International Marine’s CEO Shane Guidry announces the formation of new marine transportation company, Quality Liquefied Natural Gas Transport, LLC (“Q-LNG”), owned 70% by Shane Guidry and 30% by Harvey Gulf.

A digital transformation of oil and gas safety-critical emergency response training is set to save the industry more than a million hours of training time per year, driving time and cost efficiencies across the sector, a gathering of world-wide industry leaders heard at the OSCC conference in Kuala Lumpur.

Trelleborg’s offshore operation recently developed a new Rotating Buoyancy Module system for buckling mitigation for subsea pipelines. The advanced solution is engineered to roll on the seabed to reduce lateral friction and berm creation thereby creating repeatable and predictable pipeline behavior.

Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC), the State of Alaska, China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec), CIC Capital Corporation (CIC Capital), and Bank of China (BOC), announced a joint development agreement to advance Alaska LNG, Alaska’s strategic gas infrastructure project.

Abu Dhabi Oil Co., Ltd. (ADOC, Representative Director & CEO: Isao Kusakabe), a subsidiary of Cosmo Energy Exploration & Production Co., Ltd., (CEP, Representative Director & CEO: Isao Kusakabe) marks another historical milestone with the commencement of oil production from the new Hail Oil Field on November 7th.

The Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) and Norwegian Energy Partners (NORWEP) are hosting joint technology hackathon events later this month to collectively tackle operator late life and decommissioning challenges.