Wood Group has been awarded a US$50 million contract with Premier Oil, to deliver topside operations and maintenance services to the Balmoral floating production vessel (FPU) in the central North Sea and the Solan installation, West of Shetland…
The eelReel Tool is an extended reach solution to clean plugged flowlines and pipelines. With an established track record of resolving a multitude of blockages comprised of hydrates, scale, paraffin, and asphaltenes, the eelReel Tool is a…
Aberdeen-based visual asset management (VAM) firm Return To Scene is conducting a pilot project for BP utilizing the latest generation of its visualization technology, R2S Mosaic. The technology, which adds spatial intelligence, among other advanced new capabilities…
Global Tubing, a provider of coiled tubing products and services, has developed a new coiled tubing product, DURACOIL. DURACOIL has been designed to improve tubing fatigue life, predictability and resistance to abrasion, which minimizes downtime due to pipe failures…
CMR Group, the international control instrumentation and electrical engineering company, has appointed a new head of Asia operations. Alvin Sim joins as the new CEO for CMR Far East, with a brief to drive the development and sales of the firm’s pan-regional products and services…
Bureau Veritas (BV) has acquired Marine Assurance & Consulting (MAC). Based in Aberdeen, MAC was established in 2010 and now has 30 employees as well as more than 40 associates. This transaction is in line with BV’s recent developments in the North Sea offshore sector…
Vryhof, a provider of anchoring and mooring solutions, and its business unit Deep Sea Mooring (DSM), a provider of offshore mooring services, have launched a new engineering unit to support the company’s offshore oil and gas, renewables and aquaculture operations across the globe…
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Ltd. (LTHE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro, has bagged an offshore contract for the Neelam Re-Development and B173AC Project from the Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) valued at US$245 million. The contract…
Norwegian engineering firm Aker Solutions is to provide design engineering for Statoil's semisubmersible Njord A platform upgrade in Norway under sub-contract to Kvaerner, which in turn has a US$590 million engineering, procurement and construction contract on the job…
FES International, a producer of fluid transfer solutions, has been awarded a major contract from National Oilwell Varco (NOV) to supply equipment to be used in the Maersk Oil UK-operated Culzean field in the North Sea. The project includes the design…
Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract extension by Centrica for its Morecambe Bay onshore and offshore gas production assets. The engineering, construction and project support (ECAPS) contract includes work for operations and maintenance…
Baker Hughes has released its TerrAdapt adaptive drill bit, which can deliver dramatic improvements in drilling economics by using automation to mitigate downhole dysfunctions that cause inefficient drilling and costly tool failures. With self-adjusting depth-of-cut (DOC) control elements…
Aqualis Offshore has been contracted by Aibel to conduct human factors analysis for a number of the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractor’s ongoing projects on the Norwegian continental shelf. Under the contract,…
WorleyParsons signed a long term multi-regional agreement with US supermajor Chevron for global engineering and procurement services. The scope of the agreement allows use in all engineering phases of Chevron’s capital project program from conceptual engineering to final design…
Wood Group has won two separate contracts related to BP’s Mad Dog 2 project to provide engineering services to the deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico. Mad Dog 2 illustration, from BP. Samsung…