Wood Group Kenny (WGK) will provide technical advisory services for carbon capture and storage (CCS) policies, as well as potential projects across the UK, as part of a framework agreement with the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC)…
TGS has taken on a new CFO, accommodation vessel operator Prosafe's CFO Sven Børre Larsen. Larsen's start date has yet to be determined, says TGS, but it will be no later than 1 December 2015. Larsen has been CFO at Prosafe since 2011…
Aibel has been chosen to conduct a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for Statoil's Oseberg Future Development Brownfield Topside project. The Oseberg Future Development Brownfield Topside project involves connecting what would…
Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded a call-off order for delivery of the safety and automation system (SAS), life cycle simulator and SAS information management system for the four platforms on Statoil’s Johan Sverdrup development field center…
More than half (56%) of global oil and gas executives are ready to do deals in the next 12 months according to accountants and business advisors EY’s 12th biannual Oil & Gas Global Capital Confidence Barometer. The global survey of 112…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum a drilling permit for well 6706/11-2 on the Gymir prospect. Well 6706/11-2 will be drilled from the Transocean Spitsbergen semisubmersible drilling rig after completing…
Facilities service provider Petrofac has been awarded a contract to support maintenance management system (MMS) implementation for Bumi Armada’s floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO), the Armada Kraken. The vessel, a converted Suezmax ice-class tanker…
The mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) market continues to weaken in 2015, reports Odfjell Drilling during its 1Q 2015 investor presentation. The North Sea rig supplier expects the weak MODU market to continue during the next couple of years…
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) selected a consortium led by Aberdeen-based consultancy Pale Blue Dot Energy to deliver a project that will identify the next phase of sites deep under the seabed in UK waters to store CO2 emissions…
Full details of the conference sessions and speakers lined up for SPE Offshore Europe 2015 are now available on the event’s website. Image from Offshore Europe Facebook. The choice of this year’s theme…
Danish intervention specialist Welltec has entered into a technology collaboration framework agreement with Shell Global Solutions International, an affiliate of Shell, to improve existing or develop new technologies for global application in the energy industry…
UK trade union GMB has agreed to hold a strike ballot after talks over a dispute over changes to terms for UK offshore workers stalled. The GMB is taking action of what it describes as unilateral changes to working conditions for workers…
DONG Energy reached a new milestone having installed 3000MW of offshore wind capacity - around half of it in the UK. The total output - achieved today with the installation of turbine number 76 at the Borkum Riffgrund 1 Offshore Wind…
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has selected a consortium led by Aberdeen-based consultancy Pale Blue Dot Energy to deliver a project to identify offshore CO2 storage sites. Specifically, it is looking to progress sites deep under…
Floating accommodation provider Prosafe and BG Group have agreed to re-phase the Safe Bristolia accommodation support vessel's 2015 work program at the Everest platform. The move will see the unit spend less time in 2015 at the UK North Sea Everest platform…
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