Tag: oil and gas

Few people at Fluor have as much experience as Claire Dwyer, Piping Material Engineer. A Fluor veteran of twenty-nine years, Dwyer started her career as a Piping Material Engineer while still attending school in South Africa. Sarah Bradley, Editor-in-Chief of Valve World Americas, sat down with Claire to discuss the challenges of working for a global company.

Saudi Aramco has awarded Schlumberger two contracts for drilling rigs and services for oil and gas wells. The Schlumberger Integrated Drilling Service will provide drilling equipment and services for up to 146 gas wells and up to 128 oil wells over three years.

Brazil’s Petrobras and America’s ExxonMobil have just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding a strategic alliance to jointly identify and evaluate potential business opportunities across all sectors of oil and gas production.

The world oil price has hit a 28-month high. Industry insiders believe that a contributing factor is all the expectations on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) /non-OPEC output-cut agreement.

Metso, a world leading industrial company serving the mining, aggregates, recycling, oil, gas, pulp, paper and process industries, with multiple locations throughout the Americas, has received four major valve orders for the oil and gas industry from Chinese petrochemical customers.

Malaysian state energy firm Petronas recently announced it has been awarded a shallow-water oil and gas exploration block that it will jointly operate with Ecopetrol in the Mexican portion of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM).

Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline will continue to grow its pipeline capacity coming out of West Texas' prolific Permian Basin, adding 120 000 barrels per day (bpd) to a pipeline between Midland and Cushing, Oklahoma.

Sacramento basin-focused natural gas developer and producer, Sacgasco Limited has advised that it plans to commence drilling of the company’s Dempsey 1-15 well in the Sacramento basin in California.

OneSubsea, a subsidiary of Texas-based oilfield services company Schlumberger Limited, recently announced the award of an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract for a subsea multiphase boosting system by TAQA for the Otter field in the UK North Sea.

The oil and gas sector as a whole is operating in a tough market environment at present and operators, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the wider supply chain is having to adapt.