Siemens has entered the offshore wind market in Belgium with a first order for the 309MW Rentel wind project. The customer is Rentel, part of the Otary partnership, a conglomerate of specialists from the Belgian renewable energy industry including investment and development companies…
Empyrean Energy has been awarded a permit for 100% of the exploration rights for Block 29/11, located in the Pearl River Mouth Basin (PRMB), offshore China, following a successful application to the China National Offshore Oil Corp. Empyrean…
GMC was awarded two further caisson fabrications contracts from North Sea operators, following its recent and first caisson installation in the North Sea earlier this year. Image of the GMC SWL Caisson…
Oil services giant Schlumberger awarded Sirius Petroleum a contract for the provision of an integrated services management (ISM) contract at the Ororo field, off Nigeria. The contract is for a multi-well campaign, which will start in 1H 2017…
Woodside Energy awarded a subsidiary of Atwood Oceanics a one-well drilling services contract for the ultra deepwater rig Atwood Osprey, offshore Australia. The contract will start between 24 May 2017 and 7 July 2017 and has an estimated duration of approximately 130 days…
Houston’s KBR has been awarded two global agreements by BP International for the provision of conceptual engineering services, and another for the provision of pre-front end engineering design (FEED) and FEED engineering services. Each…
Norvestor VII L.P. and Norvestor VII OS L.P., funds managed by Norvestor Equity, has signed an agreement to invest in Aberdeen-based READ Cased Hole, an independent provider of production logging and well integrity evaluation services. “In READ Cased Hole…
Wärtsilä will provide extensive technical support and advisory services for Singapore-based large cutter dredger Cassiopeia V. The five-year technical management agreement includes dynamic maintenance planning (DMP) and is complemented by…
CS Wind will build a new offshore tower manufacturing facility in Campbeltown, Scotland as a result of a multi-million-dollar investment from DONG Energy. This investment will give DONG Energy preferred access rights to towers for its offshore wind farms…
AGR Software and Norway-based Netscenario have joined forces to bring digital and automation expertise to companies across the oil and gas industry. Image from AGR. The partnership…
Gazprom and OMV signed an agreement that will see Gazprom acquire stake in OMV Norway. According to the agreement, Gazprom will receive a 38.5% stake in OMV (Norge), a company focused on geological exploration and production in Norway…
Wärtsilä has signed a manufacturing license agreement with Jiujiang Precision Measuring Technology Research Institute, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corp. (CSSC), based in Jiujiang, China. The two-way agreement provides CSSC with…
A new company, Nucore Group, has been established to create a topside engineering services group of companies. Backed by Lonsdale Capital Partners, Nucore Group currently oversees the management of Oteac and HVAC & Refrigeration Engineering (HVAC&R)…
Lokring Northern (UK), a provider of advanced fluid and gas transfer connectors, has expanded its Aberdeen office. The new premises are double the size of the previous Aberdeen headquarters, with capacity for improved training facilities and office space…
Azinor Catalyst signed an agreement to acquire a 50% operated interest in UKCS license P.2243, containing Block 14/17a from Zennor North Sea. Map from Azinor Catalyst. The license is adjacent to Azinor’s Partridge licence P…