With the subsea construction vessel (SCV) associated with the Shah Deniz Phase 2 natural gas development expected to hit the waters in April 2017, contracting for the project is in full swing. Two more major contracts totaling nearly US$500 million announced 23 April…
Metocean Services International (MSI) recently completed a deepwater current measurement program offshore Namibia for Repsol Exploration with 100% data return. Repsol as operator of a partnership including Tower Resources Plc and Arcadia…
Expro Group says lightweight, mobile systems are needed to meet future deepwater intervention needs. Demand for deepwater subsea well intervention services continues to grow. However, to date, the focus remains on completions for new field developments…
Oilfield services company Expro opened a new well intervention facility in Aberdeen. The facility will house approximately 200 employees. Combined with renovations planned for the Bruce building, the Carnegie and Young facilities in Dyce represent a US$7…
Leading international oilfield services company, Expro, is celebrating its 40th anniversary at this year’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston by showcasing its investment in new technology and innovation. As part of that…
Martyn Conroy Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd., an Acteon company, named Martyn Conroy its new business development manager covering the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. Conroy previously worked for Ashtead Technology, FirstSubsea and Hydratight…
Expro has landed its first subsea supply contract in India. The three-year contract involves the supply of two 73/8in electro-hydraulic completion landing strings systems and two sets of topside controls equipment.
Photo: ExproExpro has been awarded its first major subsea completion landing string contract in India, the company announced on 26 November 2012.The three-year contract comes with options to extend for another two years. The scope of work…
Hatem Speta, a well test specialist recruited from Schlumberger, has joined Expro International as Middle East product manager. Expro also recently appointed Ossama Amin, previously with Geoservices, as its MENA early production facilities manager.
Steve Moir has been named as North Sea technical sales manager for downhole tool provider Peak Well Systems, based at its Aberdeen office. He joins from Expro and prior to that served with Halliburton.
Final commissioning of Expro’s ground-breaking AX-S well intervention system took place recently onboard the Havila Phoenix on a subsea well in Norway’s Onarheimsfjorden. Preparations are now under way for the system’s first commercial well intervention job in the North Sea…
Graeme Coutts (pictured) has been appointed a non-executive director of specialist pipeline isolation group STATS. He retired last year following a 21-year career with Expro, during which he held a number of senior roles including president western hemisphere…
Expro has agreed to sell its connectors & measurements business, including the Tronic and Matre brands, to Siemens at a valuation of $630 million.
OAA 2012 prize winners (left to right): Professor Alex Kemp (lifetime achievement); Shell UK’s Emma Stephenson (young professional) and Sandy Clark of Amec (large company).Expro Group’s David Shand (left) collects his company’s innovator award from BG’s Neil McCulloch…
Newcastle-based umbilical systems supplier Duco landed the top honour – subsea company of the year – at the Subsea UK annual awards dinner in Aberdeen last month. The company has seen turnover increase year on year with over £100 million in new contracts awarded in 2011 alone…
