Absoft is to install and configure SAP for Norwegian drilling consultancy Ross Offshore. The companies are to develop an online portal in support of drilling and well operations.
Allegro has announced a strategic partnership with Chinese IT service, NeuSoft to develop an IT solution for CNOOC’s LNG operations.
Petronas Carigali has entered into a 23-year oilfield service agreement with Baker Hughes to enhance recovery from the Greater D18 fields, offshore Malaysia.
Consultancy firm Competentia has secured a five year frame agreement with Statoil for consulting services relating to drilling and exploration.
Cortex Business Solutions has partnered with TCI Oilfield Factoring to offer direct invoice discounting.
Dril-Quip has entered into a five year global frame agreement with BP for the supply of subsea wellhead equipment and related services.
Flotek Industries and Gulf Energy affiliate Tasneea are to establish an oilfield chemistry and chemical research company in Oman. The new company will be called Flotek Gulf.
FMC Technologies has received a $340 million order from Tullow Ghana for the supply of subsea systems to the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme offshore development.
Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by Aramco to perform front-end engineering design of a gas compression project in Saudi Arabia.
Geospace Technologies has received an order worth US $29.4 million from a subsidiary of Norwegian Seafloor Geophysical Solutions Holdings for a marine data acquisition system comprised of 2,304 stations of the company’s OBX deep water seafloor nodes and related equipment. Geospace also won a US$18.1 million order from Dawson Geophysical for 9,000 stations of its three-channel GSX wireless recording system.
Prospectiuni and Geotrace are to offer ‘superior’ geophysical and interpretation services to E&P companies in Europe.
Honeywell has been selected by Preem AB to modernize the Preemraf Lysekil refinery in southern Sweden with Honeywell’s enhanced high performance process manager industrial process controllers.
Chinese IT solutions provider Huawei supplied a remote control and communications systems for the Sino-Kazakh natural gas project, operated by Asia Gas Pipeline. Huawei also deployed the ‘world’s first’ offshore oilfield LTE network (a.k.a. ‘4G’), for Norway’s Tampnet. Another ‘world’s first’ is the onshore oilfield LTE network in Xinjiang, China.
IBM has sent a corporate service corps on a pro bono mission in Angola, advising on how to better train small and medium sized businesses to tailor their services for the oil and gas sector.
Ramboll has standardized on Intergraph SmartMarine Enterprise for all of its onshore and offshore oil and gas projects. The standardization entails integration of several Intergraph tools, including Intergraph Smart 3D, SmartPlant Reference Data, SmartPlant Instrumentation, SmartPlant P&ID and SmartPlant Electrical.
Ipcos has been awarded a turnkey project by Lukoil Mid-East to design and build an integrated asset modeling solution using technology from OVS, Petex and OSIsoft.
Aveva has appointed GN Engineering Service and Solutions as its sales and support representative in Luanda, Angola.
Jason has selected Rock Flow Dynamics to contribute technology and provide the ability to simulate high resolution, high fidelity predictive models of subsurface reservoirs. Rock Flow Dynamics is to provide a cluster version of tNavigator to Jason customer, Kazakhstan oil company, KazMunaiGas Exploration Production.
RSI has signed an alliance with Share Oil & Services consulting group of Mexico, to provide geoscience consulting services.
Shell is using SAS Predictive Asset Maintenance software on its Perdido spar platform to extend equipment lifespan and run times.
Maersk Oil UK has joined Maersk Oil Qatar and Maersk Olie og Gas in using Serafim Future as a reserves management and production forecasting system.
Technip has been awarded a substantial (€100 to €250 million) contract by LLOG Exploration Offshore for the development of the Delta House field in the Mississippi Canyon area. Technip also won an ‘important’ contract from Qatar Petroleum for an offshore project.
Wood Group and Siemens have formed a joint venture comprising the Maintenance and Power Solutions businesses of Wood Group GTS, and Siemens’ TurboCare business unit.
This article originally appeared in Oil IT Journal 2013 Issue # 11.
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