Making Progress Possible – Caterpillar retains presence at Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2010 exhibition
Caterpillar Global Petroleum will again present a full range of products and services at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) at booth number 3341 in Hall C. OTC is this year’s most important international petroleum trade show, being held at Reliant Park in Houston, Texas, on May 3-6. The Caterpillar Global …
Polarcus Naila Commences Production
Polarcus Limited (OAX: PLCS) announced today that after a successful mobilization the seismic vessel POLARCUS NAILA has now entered into production on her first project, offshore Cameroon, West Africa. The contract is the previously announced 3D seismic acquisition project that Polarcus entered into with Noble Energy Cameroon Limited on 02 …
Topaz receives second vessel for US$ 225 million BP contract
Topaz Energy and Marine recently took delivery of the newest addition to its fleet, the ‘Caspian Protector’. The vessel will be deployed in Azerbaijan in support of a 10 year US$ 225 million BP contract won in 2008. The ‘Caspian Protector’ is a state-of-the-art 61 meter vessel designed for emergency …
The Yamal Asset of TNK-BP Is Developing Unique Fields of Yamal and the Krasnoyarsk Territory
Rospan International, a company established in 1994 for development of Achim deposits in the Vostochno-Urengoiskoe and Novo-Urengoiskoe fields in Yamal, set priorities for its activities in the nearest years. Just before the professional holiday of geologists, the newspaper Krasny Sever found out the ways and goals of Rospan International. Tough …
Rosneft Discovered New Oil Field in Khanty-Mansi District
Rosneft obtained a certificate of proof of discovery for a field named after Moskovtsev, located at Chupalsky License Area in Nefteyugansk Region of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District. As of today, 4 wildcat wells have been drilled at the field. Total oil reserves in place at the new field are estimated at …
A Statement by the Information Division of Rosneft Oil Company
Due to reports made by a number of news media on the alleged “freeze” of all cash payments to Rosneft for exported crude oil, the Company Information Division is duly authorized to make an official statement on the fact that any reports of such kind are contrary to the actual …
Caterpillar Global Petroleum Introduces Water-Cooled Hazardous Location Engines
New Cat® petroleum engines represent the next generation in technology for addressing the needs of emissions and hazardous location applications. Caterpillar is pleased to announce the introduction of the C7 ACERT®, C9 ACERT and C32 ACERT hazardous location water-cooled manifold engines. Caterpillar designed these engines to meet the requirements of …
Subsea Well Intervention Services on Electric Wireline
Welltec® has recently introduced a new range of services: subsea interventions performed through Riserless Light Weight Interventions (RLWI) techniques. Through RLWI technology, Welltec® provides increased access to subsea wells at one third of the cost of a typical intervention. Oil companies are presented with improved monitoring of their reservoirs, access …
World’s First Nipple Profile Removal on Wireline
Welltec® is the first company in the world to offer a solution for efficiently milling nipple profiles on electric wireline. This can be achieved by applying the Well Miller® NPR (Nipple Profile Removal) that offers a new bit design for the field proven Well Miller® system along with hydraulically provided …
Improving Reliability for Intelligent Wells – Well Annular Barrier
Welltec Well Completions visualize “Intelligent Design of Wells” whereby CAPEX is invested when (if) production dictates, life of well reliability is achieved through both simplicity in design and replaceability of hardware; and well flexibility is retained to enable side tracks, laterals and future planning for well abandonment. Welltec’s Well Completion …