A shipyard can lose a contract before the first weld if its welders cannot prove their qualifications on paper. The welder qualification test looks simple, weld a coupon, test it, but it fails people constantly, and an expired certificate voids a sound weld just as surely as a bad one.
Methane is invisible, worth money, and a powerful greenhouse gas. Regulators and buyers no longer accept an estimate of how much is leaking. They want it measured, at the source, and verifiable, and drones are becoming the tool that makes that possible.
Two of the most dangerous jobs in the industry are climbing a flare stack and entering a storage tank. A drone can now do the first look on both without a single person leaving the ground, and increasingly the classification societies accept the result.
Following a project update from its joint venture partner, McDermott, Italy’s engineering, drilling, and construction services giant Saipem has corroborated the progress made in moving forward with the next phase of one of Africa’s most closely watched liquefied natural gas…
Romania’s national natural gas transmission system operator (TSO) Transgaz has deepened its U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) ties through a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Argent LNG, a U.S.-based LNG export developer headquartered in Louisiana, in a push to diversify…
U.S.-headquartered technology player SLB has signed off on a long-term stimulation assignment on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) with Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor. MV Island Captain; Source: SLB SLB and Equinor’s multi-year agreement for advanced reservoir stimulation services across the…
