San Diego, California-based Sempra Energy is considering adding liquefaction capacity to its LNG regasification plant at Energía Costa Azul (ECA) in Baja California, Mexico. Subsidiary Sempra LNG's Energía Costa Azul is the first liquefied…
Aberdeenshire-based Bibby Offshore is adding to its international expansion with the opening of an office in Stavanger, Norway. Bibby Offshore is currently participating in a number of projects in the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The…
Statoil and BP continue to the most active operators on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) and the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) according to the latest report from the Energy Industry Council (EIC). Image: Fig 1. The report, based on EICDataStream…
Sweden's SKF Group announces that President and CEO Tom Johnstone has decided to step down, effective 1 January 2015. Photo at right from SKF. Leif Östling, Chairman of the Board of SKF, comments: “Under Tom’s leadership, SKF has developed into a knowledge engineering company…
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. announced it completed its acquisition of Jersey-based oil and gas services company Kentz Corp. Ltd. The acquisition of Kentz supports SNC-Lavalin’s ongoing transformation into a global Tier-1 engineering and construction (E&C) company…
2H Offshore appointed Paul Hopkins as principal engineer to develop 2H Offshore’s growing client base in Norway. Hopkins worked for 2H Offshore from 2001 - 2006 on a diverse range of riser projects, including Exxon’s Kizomba A and B developments and BP’s Shah Deniz project…
Bureau Veritas has been awarded a contract by Saipem to provide classification and certification services for the two FPSOs destined for the Kaombo development offshore Angola. The US$4 billion project for the FPSOs was awarded to Saipem by Total for the engineering…
Statoil has put its money where its mouth is and awarded engineering firm Kvaerner a concept study related to a standardized, unmanned dry tree wellhead platform for the Oseberg Future Development project. Having an unmanned dry tree…
Jill Rivette joins C & C Technologies Inc. Geotechnical Division in Houston TX as a senior geotechnical engineer. Rivette is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Texas and brings with her many years of experience in geotechnical engineering…
Jacket installation operations on Premier Oil’s Solan oil field development west of Shetland are due to start. The four-legged steel jacket for the field, in Block 205/26a, in 135m water depth, left the construction yard at Methil, Fife…
Stennes, Haustead. Images from Wild Well. Wayne Stennes and Christian Haustead join Wild Well Control, Inc. to further increase the company’s service offerings and presence in the Asia Pacific region…
Statoil and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg officially opened the company's new Gudrun platform, on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Gudrun installation. Photo from Statoil…
Dubai's Drydocks World has successfully completed turret modules 1 and 2 for the world’s largest floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility. This innovative FLNG facility will be stationed at Shell's Prelude gas field off the northwest coast of Australia…
VARD has acquired STX Canada Marine Inc., a leading marine engineering and design company with more than 30 years history in North America, for approx. NOK 65 million (US$10.6 million). Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with branch…
Kvaerner and KBR are setting up a joint venture to competitively bid on offshore platform topsides contracts for the Johan Sverdrup field development offshore Norway. The Johan Sverdrup field is one of Norway's largest offshore oil and gas fields…
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