Equinor is introducing autonomous ATEX-certified robots for inspection and maintenance on their oil and gas installations.
The partner in the project is inspection robotics specialist Taurob of Austria. Its robot will be used to conduct routine inspection and maintenance tasks on offshore installations.
Taurob initially developed robotics for human safety, particularly in emergency response situations, 11 years ago. Safety is also the main driver for the energy...
With shares trading at an eight-year peak and aiming higher, Elixir Energy has provided an update on its largest exploration program to date in Mongolia.
The Adelaide-headquartered explorer launched the exploration and appraisal program across its 100%-owned Nomgon IX CBM PSC, where the spudding of two exploration wells is imminent.
The first well in the 2021 drilling program, Yangir-2, has just been finished and the Yangir depocenter has proven to be highly fractured and hosting of...
A consortium led by CGG has been selected by the European Space Agency’s Space Solutions initiative to undertake a study aimed at developing new environmental monitoring technology and services to help combat the global marine litter crisis.
CGG will collaborate with Mott MacDonald, a global engineering, management and development consultancy, and Brunel University London to develop innovative new environmental monitoring solutions based on CGG’s analysis and processing of Earth...
Technology group Wärtsilä is converting the 90 MW Bel-Air power plant in Dakar, Senegal to operate on liquefied natural gas (LNG).
The plant, which is owned by Senelec, Senegal’s public utility company, currently operates on heavy fuel oil and Wartsilia said the conversion will future-proof the facility as Senegal’s long-term strategy is to lower the carbon footprint of energy production by switching to gas when domestic supply is available. This project is part of an interim...
Shearwater has been awarded a 3D seismic survey by a major operator in Vietnam. The two-and-a-half-month project will commence in April 2021 and will be conducted by the SW Vespucci.
“This award contributes to an already strong portfolio of projects in the Asia Pacific region announced in recent weeks as market conditions improve”, said Irene Waage Basili, CEO of Shearwater GeoServices.
The marine geophysical services company has established experience in Vietnam and has...
Wood, the global consulting and engineering company, has entered into a new, three-year engineering framework agreement with Norway-based NEL Hydrogen, aligning with the company’s ambition to unlock sustainable solutions to global energy challenges.
Through the provision of its project execution expertise, Wood said it will work with NEL Hydrogen to support the delivery of large-scale green hydrogen production plants and play a leading role in the transition towards an integrated,...
The nation’s peak oil and gas industry body has said the release by the Australian government of a suite of measures aimed at enhancing and strengthening Australia’s offshore oil and gas decommissioning framework is a step in the right direction.
APPEA Chief Executive Andrew McConville said industry has worked constructively with the Government to develop an appropriate, forward-looking decommissioning framework and will look at what is proposed closely.
“The offshore oil...
PGS has been awarded a high-fidelity 3D exploration program by a supermajor offshore Egypt.
The survey will be acquired using an Extended Long Offset (ELO) configuration with Ramform Tethys towing a wide multi-sensor GeoStreamer spread with an additional source vessel located several kilometers ahead.
CGG said that this would enable efficient recording of offsets up to 16km, which is critical for imaging deeper complex exploration targets. The source vessel will be towing a specially...
India is set to commence 647 oil and gas projects from 2021 to 2025, accounting for 33% of the total upcoming project starts in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, according to GlobalData.
The data and analytics company’s report, ‘Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Projects Outlook to 2025 - Development Stage, Capacity, Capex and Contractor Details of All New Build and Expansion Projects’, reveals that out of 647 projects to commence operations by 2025, upstream projects would be 80, midstream...
CGG has been awarded three major seismic imaging projects by BP, two in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and one offshore Trinidad & Tobago.
These projects will start in Q1/Q2 this year and complete with cloud delivery of the data no later than Q4 of 2021.
CGG said that, “utilizing CGG Cloud supercomputing, imaging specialists at CGG’s Houston subsurface imaging center will employ compute-intensive data-driven proprietary algorithms, such as time-lag full-waveform inversion and...