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Oil States Provides Key Connections for China’s Lingshui 17-2 Gas Field

October 27, 2020

Lingshui 17-2 is a deepwater gas field located in the South China Sea, near China’s Hainan Province. With water depths of up to about 1,500 meters, the field is the first ultra-deep project developed by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) in the region. “We are pleased to work with CNOOC and enable the development of the Lingshui gas field with the supply of the first-ever deepwater steel catenary riser FlexJoint™ assembly packages for China,” said Jeff Jewitt, project manager. “The execution of this global project involved bringing together scopes of supply from international suppliers as well as six different...

Oil States Industries Confirms Contract Award for a Deepsea Mining Riser System

June 3, 2020

Oil States Industries is very pleased Cosmos Shoji Co Ltd, Japan have chosen OSI to supply an Automated Hands-Free Deepsea Mining Riser System. The system is based upon Oil States’ field-proven, industry-leading Merlin™ Connector, and designed for rapid deployment in water depths of up to 6,000 meters. Deepsea Mining projects can be located in extremely remote areas, often a four- or five-day sail from the nearest shore.  System reliability therefore is critical.  OSI’s non-helical Merlin Connector is easier to reliably automate, faster to deploy, and with no moving parts is not subject to the many mechanical issues typically found in...

Oil States International’s CEO Featured in Energy Connection Magazine

February 24, 2020

Cindy Taylor - Oil States International CEO
Oil States International’s CEO, Cindy Taylor, was featured in the February 2020 edition of PESA’s Energy Connection Magazine. Click the links below to read the full article or magazine. Article: Energy Connection Magazine – Cindy Taylor Article Magazine: Energy Connection Magazine

Oil States Introduces Advanced Merlin™ Riser Technology for Deepwater Subsea Mining Applications

December 11, 2019

Oil States Merlin™ Subsea Mining Riser System

Oil States, a global leader in complete riser systems for drilling & workover applications, has now translated it’s experience in designing and manufacturing riser systems for oil & gas to meet the needs of the growing subsea mining sector.  Based on proven Merlin™ Riser Technology, Oil States now offers subsea mining riser systems. The Merlin™ Subsea Mining Riser System incorporates the world-leading high-fatigue, high-load capabilities of Oil States Merlin connectors which have been proven for decades in casing, conductor, tension leg platform (TLP) tendons, drilling and completion riser, caissons and FPSO turrets. It features non-rotational makeup with dual metal-to-metal seals...

Refurbished Nautilus™ Crane installed and commissioned on Shell FPSO Fluminense offshore Brazil

November 21, 2019

Oil States Industries has completed the successful installation, testing, and commissioning of a 26-ton Nautilus™ Crane on board the Shell FPSO Fluminense in the Bijupira and Salema Fields in the Campos Basin.  The Fluminense is installed about 295 km offshore of Rio de Janeiro city.  The refurbishment involved complete disassembly and inspection, reassembly, and functional testing; test lifting the assembled crane and transporting it to the dock, all while maintaining the crane’s original API 2C certification. Beyond the technical challenges, an aggressive timeline, coordination of nearly a dozen different contributing companies, language barriers, and cross-border logistics all added to the...

Oil States Awarded Funding to Develop P&A Technology

February 4, 2019

Oil States has been awarded over £80k in funding from the Scottish Government’s Decommissioning Challenge Fund (DCF). The award, which was recently announced in St. Andrews, is part of a £2.5m funding pot, shared between 12 decommissioning projects. Oil States’ successful application will be used to develop innovative technologies that will enable both time efficiencies and cost savings in the Well Plug & Abandonment (P&A) operations of subsea wells. Well P&A remains one of the highest cost operations when decommissioning offshore wells in the UKCS and across the globe. It is an area that desperately requires new ideas to help...

Oil States Industries Asia API Global Certification

July 6, 2018

The American Petroleum Institute (API) Global offered congratulations to the Oil States Industries Asia for being granted the API Specification Q2 Certification. THis new certification joins the seven other certifications Oil States Industries Asia holds with API. Oil States Industries Asia officially received the award from representatives of the American Embassy in Singapore and API. Congratulations to everyone at Oil States Industries Asia for this team effort and great achievement!

45 Ton Radial Logging Crane

April 26, 2018

Oil States Marine Cranes & Deck Equipment division delivered a 45 ton Radial Logging Crane. During mid-2017, Oil States Marine Cranes & Deck Equipment division in Houma, LA was approached by a timber automation company, about manufacturing the structure for their 175’ X 45 ton logging crane. These cranes are used at their facilities to offload arriving logging trucks and also to load the conveyor which takes the logs to be processed. This is the first venture by Oil States into the logging industry and it is offering some new opportunities. The scope of work included all fabrication, machining, and...

Oil States Industries Support Our Own

April 26, 2018

While many around the nation watched the TV in awe of the devastation left by Hurricane Harvey, it was a real life nightmare for many Oil States families. Harvey was a different type of hurricane with much lower wind than most storms but the water it produced was astonishing. Over several days the storm dropped just under 52” of rain beating a record for most rainfall in the continental US since 1978. Houston typically sees 49” of rain over the course of the entire year. Areas that have never seen flood conditions were swamped in the middle of the night...

Oil States Awarded Marine Cranes Contract for Leviathan Platform

April 30, 2017

Oil States Industries’ Marine Crane and Deck Equipment division in Houma, Louisiana, has been awarded a three-crane contract from Noble Energy to supply Nautilus™ API 2C offshore pedestal cranes. The cranes will be installed on Noble Energy’s Leviathan Platform in the Leviathan field off the coast of Israel.  The Leviathan natural gas field will supply Israel with natural gas using a subsea system that connects production wells to a fixed platform located offshore, with tie-in onshore in northern Israel. After testing, delivery to the topside fabricator is scheduled from Oil States’ Houma, Louisiana facility in Q1 2018. The Nautilus line...

Events

Date

Event & Location

Booth #

June 12-13, 2023

September 5-8, 2023

Offshore Europe

Aberdeen, UK

September 13-15, 2023

Asia Oil and Gas

Kuala Lumpur, MY

September 27-28, 2023

DEP BBQ- Midland

Midland, TX

October 1-6, 2023

October 2-5, 2023

ADIPEC

Abu Dhabi, UAE

October 4-5, 2023

October 16-18, 2023

ATCE

San Antonio, TX

October 17-19, 2023

October 24-26, 2023

OTC Brazil

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

October 28-29, 2023

OEEC

Amsterdam, NL

November 29-Dec 1, 2023