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...

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!

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...

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 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...