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Statoil shows faith in North Sea and Arctic prospects
August 18 by Diana RaicuDespite high break-even prices, the Norwegian energy giant is pushing the North Sea envelopeThe Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway has green-lit Statoil’s plan for two drilling projects in...
Trump's executive order shows US oil projects are back in business
August 17 by Diana RaicuNew measures will rapidly speed up creation of oil and gas arteries in the USPresident Donald Trump has signed an executive order to relax regulations around pipeline construction in the United States...
Five ways redeploying your FPSO will pay dividends
August 16 by Tim HaïdarThe beauty of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, is that it can be steered from field to field whenever necessary following its depletion.Although this “hummingbird...
Decommissioning - five complications in the asset valuation relationship
August 14 by Iain PooleDecommissioning in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is going to be an expensive and uncertain businessAccording to The Decommissioning Company, operators in Europe are forecast to spend over £6...
Why the US abandoned the Paris agreement [infographic]
August 09 by Diana RaicuWhen the Paris climate change agreement was signed on April 22, 2016 by 195 countries, it marked a watershed moment for energy policy. So what went wrong?
Optimise asset management by defining assets as systems, not components
August 08 by John WoodhouseIn the third part of John Woodhouse's series on asset management, we find out how a change of mindset is a crucial component in the journey towards business excellence Asset management can make a sign...
Scotland’s biggest newspaper runs with Oil & Gas IQ decommissioning story
August 07 by Diana RaicuThe oil and gas industry is finally talking about dismantling the elephant in the roomThe tanking of oil and gas prices in 2014 has had a trenchant effect on the industry at large, with full spectru...
How automation improved the world’s biggest chemicals producer
August 03 by Tim HaïdarThe digital revolution is beginning to take hold in the hydrocarbons industry, bringing with it improvements in productivity that were hitherto unimagined. In this interview with the Glob...
Oil, gas and the two faces of asset management
August 02 by John WoodhouseIn the second part of John Woodhouse's series on the asset management approach to the hazardous industries, he outlines the duality necessary to get the best out of this methodology &nbs...
BHGE – the first “molecule to megawatt” contracting supermajor
July 31 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorThe super-merger of the year so far unites two giants in the service provider space as they embrace the digital revolution When General Electric announced its merger with Baker Hughes, it signalled t...
Four reasons why asset management must be this year’s obsession for CEOs
July 26 by John WoodhouseIn this first part of John Woodhouse's walk-through of the benefits of asset management, we take a look at four separate issues that could be solved by this emerging science.CEOs are the agenda se...
Six guaranteed methods to optimise inspection, maintenance and operating expenditure
July 26 by Tim HaïdarIt goes without saying that in times of low oil price, reducing operational expenditure is a sure-fire way to make any project more commercially viable.Whilst cost-cutting is far from a panacea, eve...