Keppel Corporation and the National University of Singapore have agreed to set up the Keppel-NUS Corporate Laboratory, with backing from the National Research Foundation (NRF), to develop technological solutions for the offshore industry…
EQT VI has entered into an agreement to acquire Oslo-listed Aker Solutions ASA’s Well Intervention Services Business for an enterprise value of NOK 4 billion. “The acquisition has come to fruition through close cooperation with Aker Solutions…
McDermott International, Inc. announced today that one of its subsidiaries was awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) project for a customer in the Arabian Gulf. The contract is worth about US$200 million and includes the fabrication…
Tekmar Energy has launched a new cable protection system to help reduce installation time and costs, and minimise associated cable risks onshore. The TekTube cable protection system is an onshore-installed solution, to reduce project time and complexity offshore…
Aberdeen’s two universities have both now founded energy institutes to build on their existing oil and gas expertise. Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen has said it is to set up an International Institute for Oil and Gas. The new institute…
DNV GL has launched a joint industry project (JIP) to provide guidance on an alternative means of personnel transfer onto offshore installations. The Walk to Work (W2W) approach, where offshore installations are manned from a ship via gangway…
Produced Water Absorbents, Inc. (PWA) and its subsidiaries have completed a US$9.2 million acquisition of the operating assets of oil and gas technology company ProSep Inc. and are launching a combined portfolio of patented solutions to treat oil…
Russia needs to re-focus investment from easier conventional onshore projects to more difficult and expensive tight oil, LNG and Arctic developments to maintain production in the longer-term, according to industry analysts Wood Mackenzie…
Sea Trucks Group has won a contract from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) to provide an accommodation vessel for the Arkutun-Dagi Project, operated by Exxon Neftegas Limited, in Sakhalin, Russia. Sea Truck’s Jascon 25 vessel will be used for the project…
Technip was awarded contract work from Statoil for a subsea project related to the Edvard Grieg field, in PL338, Block 16/1 in the North Sea, about 180 km west of Stavanger, Norway. Statoil has made a call-off for the framework contract Technip has with Statoil for diving services…
Norwegian private equity group HitecVision AS is to invest US$92.6million in Singapore-based Energy Drilling Pte Ltd. The deal will see Hitecvision take a majority stake in the company and it will ensure delivery of Energy Drilling Pte…
Engineering group AMEC has been awarded the hook up and commissioning (HUC) support contract for GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd’s Cygnus gas field development. The HUC support contract for the four Cygnus platforms follows on from a front end engineering…
The winners of the Oil & Gas UK Awards 2013 were announced at an awards ceremony attended by more than 600 in Aberdeen, Scotland, last night. The Oil & Gas UK Awards is the annual showcase event for the UK offshore oil and gas industry…
FMC wins TEN order FMC Technologies Inc. received an order from Tullow Ghana Ltd. to supply subsea systems for its Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme Development (TEN) offshore Ghana. The order's estimated value is US$340 million. FMC Technologies’ scope of supply includes subsea trees…
Transboundary may head to committee The US Senate bill ratifying the US-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement, S. 812, is reportedly on its way to a conference committee. The Senate’s version of the bill, passed last month (October)…
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