Crondall Energy, the floating production and subsea specialist, has secured a frame agreement contract with Siccar Point Energy to provide support on the Cambo field, West of Shetland.Support will initially cover the identification and evaluation…
Finalists for industry body Subsea UK's 2018 business awards have been unveiled. Some of the country’s most innovative and successful subsea businesses have made it on to the shortlist for the annual awards which seek to recognise companies…
Former chair and chief executive of Shell UK Sir Bob Reid is to take up a new role as non-executive director of Belltree, a specialist oil and gas consultancy based in Edinburgh. Sir Bob will advise and support Belltree with its continued growth into international markets…
Shell has been given two safety warnings from the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on its Lomond facility in the Central North Sea. Map of Lomond and surrounding Shell assets. Map from Chrysaor…
Bluestream has secured a five-year contract plus two-year extension with ONEgas, the combined business unit of Shell UK and the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM) for the gas production on the Southern North Sea. Image from Bluestream…
According to latest figures from Oil & Gas UK, decommissioning is the only business area where expenditure increased last year on the UKCS, from just over US$1.2 billion (£1 billion) in 2015 to $1.5 billion (£1.2 billion) in 2016. Expenditure is expected to rise further in 2017 to around $2…
Jacobs Engineering signed a contract with ONEgas to perform engineering services for the decomplexing of its K15-FA platform in the North Sea. The decomplexing process involves transitioning K15-FA to an unmanned platform without gas treatment installations…
Supermajor Shell has agreed to sell a package of UK North Sea assets to Chrysaor for a total of up to US$3.8 billon. The packaged deal consists of Shell's interest in Buzzard, Beryl, Bressay, Elgin-Franklin, J-Block, the Greater Armada cluster…
With a growing realization that lower oil and gas prices are here to stay, Subsea UK has urged the industry to embrace the ‘new norm’ to safeguard the future of the UK’s £9billion (US$11 billion) subsea sector. Image of Gordon…
Seeking additional gains from subsea wells on a tight budget has paved the way for the implementation of a new technology to the market. Elaine Maslin reports. Helix’s Compensated Coiled Tubing Lift Frame in its operational position…
The European Intervention and Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA), is delighted to announce that this year's recipient of the ICoTA Innovation Award was a joint entry from Shell, Helix Well Ops and Altus Intervention. The award, presented at the annual SPE ICoTA Well Intervention Conference…
Shell is set to cut 380 jobs as the supermajor moves to close its finance office in Glasgow following a review of its global finance operations, according to news reports. 'For Shell to remain competitive, difficult choices continue to…
James Fisher Subsea (JF Subsea), a division of James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS), has reduced inspection downtime to 2% for Shell UK, through use of asset-based remotely operated vehicles (ABROVs) on oil platform inspection programs in the North Sea…
Talks between engineering firm Wood Group and two unions over pay cuts and changes to allowances have resulted in a 'mutually agreeable proposal,' it has been announced. Nearly 400 workers in the RMT and Unite unions staged strikes earlier…
Nearly 400 members of Unite and RMT unions working for Wood Group across eight Shell oil and gas platforms in the North Sea will be striking for the first time in a generation in a dispute over 30% pay cuts and changes to allowances, the Unite and RMT unions announced on 18 July…
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