Svane license to expire due to drilling costsDONG and its partners have decided not to pursue the drilling of an appraisal well at Svane field, opting instead to let the 04/98 Svane license to expire on 1 January 2013.DONG said the decision was based on detailed technical evaluations…
Class societies unite under name DNV GL GroupAn agreement has been signed to merge DNV and GL. The new entity will be called DNV GL Group. It will be one of the world's leading ship classification societies and risk experts in the oil and gas…
Sinopec strikes $1.5B deal for Talisman UK JVTalisman Energy has completed its joint venture transaction with Sinopec subsidiary Addax Petroleum UK Limited (APUK) following receipt of government and regulatory approval, the company announced on 17 December 2012…
Atle Jacobsen, CEO of Dolphin GeoDolphin Geophysical racks up North Sea work Dolphin Geophysical has been awarded several contracts for the upcoming North Sea season. The awards are for both 3D and 4D seismic services and will involve three…
Polar PrinceReef to conduct seismic installation at GraneReef Subsea announced that one of its Norwegian subsidiaries, Reef Subsea Norway, has been awarded a major contract by Statoil for the full seismic system installation of the Grane field offshore Norway…
UK to resume fracking with control measures The UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) announced on 13 December that hydraulic fracturing can resume although the practice will be subject to new controls.The new controls announced…
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS (KOGT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen ASA (KONGSBERG), has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Apply Nemo AS, an independent supplier of advanced engineering services…
Transocean BarentsDana Petroleum has started drilling a new prospect in the Norwegian Sea in partnership with the operator Maersk Oil Norway.The drilling rig Transocean Barents has started operations on the Albert prospect in production license PL 513 in the Haltenbanken area…
Energistics, the upstream oil and gas standards consortium, announced today that Eric Toogood, Diskos Manager for the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), and Espen S. Johansen, Ph.D., Vice President Marketing and Commercialization – Production and Completion Systems for Weatherford…
DNV has appointed Stefan Nerpin as its new Group Vice President of Communications and External Relations for the DNV Group. Mr Nerpin brings with him extensive international leadership experience and a strong track record of corporate communications and branding…
Subsea mooring connector specialist First Subsea has invested over £200,000 in new mooring connector test rig facilities at its production site in Lancaster, UK. Designed for proof load and minimum breaking load testing up to 2600te (25…
UK business minister Michael Fallon opened market leader Bridon International’s new state-ofthe-art wire rope manufacturing facility in Newcastle last month. The event marked the commencement of manufacturing at Bridon Neptune Quay, developed…
Lankhorst Ropes offshore division has relocated its Portuguese production facility for deepwater mooring ropes and single point mooring (SPM) hawsers to a new purpose-built factory on the coast at Viana do Castello, about 80km north of Porto…
Gordon Birrell BP head of safety and operational risk for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, is replacing Rashid Javanshir as regional president. Javanshir, who had run BP’s AGT operations since 2009, returns to London as SVP for strategy and integration.
Peter Boyle has become Aberdeen-based UK regional director of DNV and is tasked with driving forward its offshore ageing and life extension business. Boyle, a chemical engineer, has worked for DNV for 18 years, most recently leading…
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