Patent Pending Articulating Diamond Wire Saw
The June Issue of Ocean News & Technology focuses on Deepwater Pipeline Repair & Maintenance with a product focus on Subsea Tools & Manipulators. We are more than…
Articulating Diamond Wire Saw Cuts Pipe and Cuts Costs
Mactech Offshore, a leading provider of subsea and offshore machining solutions, has recently received patent-pending status on its Articulating Diamond Wire Saw. The saw is designed for subsea…
Subsea Decommissioning Costs: What Affects the Cost?
What do you think most affects the decommissioning cost of platforms in the North Sea? Water depth? Function, as in oil or gas? How about location? According to a…
Offshore Decommissioning: Is California The Next Hot Market?
With a finite number of platforms in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), companies should look to California as the next promising US offshore decommissioning market, an expert has…
Power Sector Is Critically Vulnerable to Drought, Hearing Panel Testifies
Drought is a serious vulnerability for the power sector, witnesses testified at a full committee hearing held last week in the Senate to assess the impacts of drought…
Incremental steps advance subsea development
Subsea machining oil and gas technology is continuously advancing to meet the requirements of increasingly demanding production environments: deeper water, greater distances from shore, higher reservoir temperatures and…
Survey shows increase in refining construction
Oil and Gas Journal’s semiannual Worldwide Construction Update shows an increase in oil refinery turnarounds activity compared with the previous edition of the update (OGJ, Nov.5, 2012, p.…
Summer Power Burn: Are Generators Headed Back to Coal?
The US natural gas supply demand picture has changed with the 25% run-up in NYMEX natural gas futures prices to over $4/MMBtu this year. Prices rose for portable…
Lawmakers Push for Financing Parity for Renewable Projects
Bipartisan legislation introduced on Wednesday by a bicameral group of lawmakers seeks to give renewable energy project investors access to an existing corporate structure whose tax benefits are…