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Jørn Berg joins Nautronix as VP sales for Norway

May 27, 2012

Jørn Berg has joined subsea acoustic communication and positioning systems specialist Nautronix as VP sales for Norway. Berg, who has 25 years’ oil & gas industry experience, will be based at the company’s newly established Stavanger office.

Keith Gordon heads up new OPS division with Maxoil Solutions

May 27, 2012

Keith Gordon (pictured) heads up oil & gas consultancy Maxoil Solutions’ new OPS (operations performance strategy) division as consultant. He has more than 40 years’ experience in the sector, having held production operations and asset management posts internationally with BP and…

Dr Kirsi Tikka to assume role of president and COO of ABS Europe Division

May 27, 2012

Dr Kirsi Tikka, (pictured), a VP and currently chief engineer at ABS, is relocating to London to assume the role of president and COO of the ABS Europe Division, which includes the wider Mediterranean region and Africa. She takes over…

Mike Bowyer presented with Oil & Gas UK’s prestigious 2012 award

May 27, 2012

Mike Bowyer was presented with Oil & Gas UK’s prestigious 2012 award for services to safety last month in recognition of his many years supporting the North Sea’s Step Change in Safety initiative. As co-chair of its workforce engagement steering group…

Sietze Hepkema joins SBM Offshore

May 27, 2012

Sietze Hepkema, a Dutch qualified lawyer and former partner with Allen & Overy, has joined SBM Offshore as chief governance and compliance officer and will serve on the company’s management board. The appointment follows a recent review of the company’s compliance procedures…

Tekena Dokubo joinsGL Noble Denton

May 27, 2012

Tekena Dokubo (pictured) has joined GL Noble Denton as country manager, Nigeria, following the opening of the company’s first West African base in Lagos.

Then There Were Three joins Senergy Development Solutions

May 27, 2012

Rob Fisher (centre) has joined Senergy Development Solutions (SDS), the fast-evolving engineering and project management group established in Aberdeen last August. Previously with Technip, he joins fellow directors Stuart McAuley (left)…

Total plugs Elgin leak

May 18, 2012

The well intervention operation undertaken by Total and Wild Well Control has succeeded in stopping a gas leak at Elgin’s G4 well, the French supermajor announced on 16 May 2012. Total’s president of E&P Yves-Louis Darricarrère called the outcome a ‘major turning point…

Vessels in action

May 01, 2012

Jumbo bolsters heavylift fleetJumbo Shipping last month confirmed that it has ordered a second new K-class vessel, with an option on a third, to complement its existing fleet. And following engineering studies, the Rotterdambased specialist…

Going deeper with HMPE rope

May 01, 2012

Low creep synthetic ropes made from high modulus polyethylene (HMPE) hold the key to overcoming the engineering and installation issues facing naval architects and installation contractors arising from ultra-deepwater, permanent moorings. Lankhorst…

The technologies in Shell’s DNA

May 01, 2012

Technology is a key enabler for Shell, Matthias Bichsel, director of the supermajor’s Projects & Technology business, told a two-day briefing at the Rijswijk technology centre in The Hague this spring. Meg Chesshyre joined the tour of the company’s iScope…

Building muscle for the MMO market

May 01, 2012

Dutch contractor Stork Technical Services continues to make inroads into the offshore oil & gas sector as it pursues its ambition to become a global force in the provision of maintenance, modification and overhaul services. Meg Chesshyre talks to the man with the plan…

Helix Qs up for deepwater role

May 01, 2012

While the Q4000, star of the Macondo response,was in dock recently for some much-deserved TLC, Helix Energy Solutions Group chairman and CEO Owen Kratz spoke with analysts about the company’s bet on a burgeoning well intervention market and…

Conventional mooring in Brazilian depth

May 01, 2012

The water depth record for conventional mooring offshore Brazil was improved by another 12m – to 2027m – by InterMoor recently under its one-year mooring and positioning support operations contract with Shell using the mobile offshore drilling unit Noble Clyde Boudreaux (pictured)…

Cookie cutter approach pays drilling dividends

May 01, 2012

ENSCO 8505, the sixth in a series of seven ultra-deepwater semisubmersibles, recently arrived in Texas for final trials before launching a two-year stint under contract to Anadarko, Apache and Noble Energy in the Gulf of Mexico. Russell McCulley was on hand in Corpus Christi…

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