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Glacier buys NDT firm PTS

Mar 07, 2014

Glacier Energy Services has bought Professional Testing Services (PTS), the provider of non-destructive testing (NDT) and inspection services to the oil and gas and offshore renewable sectors. Headquartered in Aberdeen, Glacier’s…

Bergen Group ups offshore focus

Mar 07, 2014

Bergen Group has decided to accelerate the process of reducing the group's future involvement in the shipbuilding business in favor of a more dedicated focus on offshore related activities.   As a part of this process, Bergen Group…

First steel cut on Alba

Mar 07, 2014

First cut for Marathon Oil's Alba field B3 compression platform project was marked at Heerema Fabrication Group's (HFG) HFG Polska yard, in Opole, Poland, with project partner Iv-Oil & Gas (Iv). Operated by Marathon Oil subsidiary Marathon E…

SOSINA launches 3D seismic program

Mar 05, 2014

SOSINA Exploration Ltd. announced a new 3D seismic program, which is planned to be acquired by Polarcus in the southern Porcupine basin, offshore southwest Ireland. The non-exclusive multi-client survey, is projected to commence this summer…

5Tcf undeveloped in SNS

Mar 05, 2014

Some 5Tcf of natural gas reserves are sitting undeveloped in the Southern North Sea, an event on the basin heard today (5 March).  John Westwood, of industry analysts Douglas Westwood, was speaking at the Southern North Sea 2014 conference in Norwich…

Petrel awarded Atlantic margin blocks

Mar 04, 2014

Petrel Resources has been awarded Frontier Exploration Licenses (FEL) 3/14 and 4/14 in the Irish Atlantic Porcupine basin. The acreage licensed collectively covers about 1050sq km or 75% of the 1400sq km previously held under Licensing Options 11/4 and 11/6…

Boskalis buys Fairmount Marine

Mar 04, 2014

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) is to buy Fairmount Marine B.V. and Fairmount Ocean Towage Company B.V. (Fairmount) from the French group Louis Dreyfus Armateurs. Fairmount is a global provider of long-distance ocean towage services operating five…

Cairn founder to retire

Mar 03, 2014

Sir Bill Gammell, the founder and now non-executive chairman of Edinburgh-based exploration firm Cairn Energy, has announced he is to retire on May 15, at the company's AGM. Sir Bill founded Cairn and was appointed to the board as chief executive on its initial listing in 1988…

Produced water monitoring tool launched

Mar 03, 2014

Oil and gas chemical monitoring firm LUX Assure is to present a new produced water monitoring technology at the ITF Technology Showcase in Aberdeen this week. MOTEYE has been developed to monitor produced water being used for reinjection…

Intertek buys UAE's INSPEC

Mar 03, 2014

Intertek Group has acquired International Inspection Services Ltd (INSPEC), a UAE-based provider of non-destructive testing (NDT) and associated services to the oil and gas industry.  Intertek bought INSPEC from Lamprell Energy, a subsidiary of rig builder Lamprell…

EnQuest completes Kittiwake acquisition

Mar 03, 2014

EnQuest has completed the acquisition of the UK Continental Shelf Greater Kittiwake Area (GKA) assets previously owned by Centrica North Sea Oil Limited (Centrica), as well as Centrica’s 100% interest in the Kittiwake to Forties oil export pipeline…

Barents Langlitinden well disappoints

Mar 03, 2014

Det norske oljeselskap is to plug and abandon its exploration well on the Langlitinden prospect after getting disappointing results. The well was the first well in Barents Sea production license 659. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said the well…

Dana Western Isles development project

Mar 03, 2014

Paul Griffin, managing director, Dana Petroleum, North Sea, outlines the latest developments on the company's Western Isles development on the UK Continental Shelf to Aberdeen's Society of Petroleum Engineers Young Professionals section.

Murchison ceases production

Feb 28, 2014

One of the largest platforms in the North Sea has ceased production today, as its operator prepares to decommission the field. The 254m-high, from seabed to flare-tip, Murchison platform is in Block 211/19, in the East Shetland basin…

Deepwater slowdown warnings

Feb 28, 2014

Denmark’s Maersk Drilling has posted a 52% jump in profits for 2013, at US$528 million, but warned that there will be challenges in 2014 as it sees a drop in deepwater demand and a major overhaul of its fleet.   Claus V. Hemmingsen…

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