Finally, some sanity has surfaced in Europe on the subject of climate change and it is from a real scientific heavyweight to boot. Rarely have I found . . .

The effect of the continuing credit crunch last summer meant that North Sea field development activity was down last year, but the steadying of the price this spring has led to projects being dusted off in both the UK and the Norwegian sectors . . .

For more than 20 years, the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority has led various initiatives to reduce the risks to helicopters operating to moving platforms in the North Sea. Dr Athena Scaperdas and Dr Paul Gallagher of Atkins describe one such project . ....

When the ideal coiled tubing string for a sleeve-shifting operation was too heavy for the platform crane, the string was split and then rejoined offshore. BJ Services’ Godwin Effiong and Greg Dean explain how they kept the job safe . . .

The risks associated with placing complex open hole completions across the reservoir are increasing. Deep Casing Tools’ Mark Presslie explains why and describes . . .

Conventional solids control methods are inadequate to manage low-gravity solids smaller than 8-10 microns. M-I Swaco’s Rich Cook discusses a new solution . . .

Another challenge to its long-delayed quest to become the US’s first offshore wind farm was successfully fought off by Cape Wind as federal regulators in August upheld; Development of offshore wind farms in Poland has been slow, despite the country’s...

Release of the new OpenFrac family of hydraulic fracturing fluid additive systems was announced by Schlumberger; Intergraph has interfaced Smart 3D (SmartPlant and SmartMarine 3D) design software with GexCon’s FLACS explosion analysis software; A hyd...

Obituary - Matthew Simmons, an energy investment banker and peak oil alarmist who in recent years was a strong advocate of renewable energy . . .

Subsea 7 has entered a global technology partnership agreement with CRC-Evans Pipeline International; Halliburton, having signed a strategic partnership agreement with the University of Aberdeen, is donating; GL Noble Denton has opened a new office i...

BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil leak is an unmitigated disaster, not just because of the amount of oil that has to be skimmed, the oil-soaked birds that have to be cleansed and the beaches that require purification . . .

OE ’s analysis of current rig market data is updated monthly using statistics provided by Rigzone.com . . .

BP has come under fierce criticism for its response to the Macondo blowout, a months-long saga of top hats, riser insertion tools and other containment efforts that only began collecting a significant portion of the oil spilling into the Gulf several...

Four of the largest oil companies have pledged $1 billion to build a rapid response system designed to capture and contain oil in the event of another Macondo-style blowout in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico . . .

The Macondo oil spill will have a lasting impact, but not the same repercussions on the petroleum industry that the Three Mile Island accident had on the nuclear industry . . .