Houston-based Wild Well Control has unveiled its new subsea capping stack for response to a global deepwater well control incident that will be located in Singapore. Image from Wild Well The Singapore capping stack…
Trelleborg’s offshore unit secured a contract to supply a range of cable protection products for phase two of the offshore wind farm Fukushima FORWARD project, lead by Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Trelleborg…
The Technical University of Denmark’s (DTU) new Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre opened 18 September. DBU platform Image: DTU DTU said that it wants to train…
Oil and gas engineering services firm Plexus Holdings has added a new board member as it looks to expand its business overseas. The firm has appointed US-based Charles Edward Jones to the board of Plexus as a non-executive director with immediate effect…
Scotland today (September 18) goes to the polls to decide on its possible future fate as an independent nation. It is being hailed as a historic day for the country. But, for some, the mere existence of the referendum has already damaged investment in the UK North Sea…
iSURVEY Offshore, a provider of survey and positioning services to the global oil and gas, offshore renewables and telecommunications markets, has completed a contract with Bibby Offshore’s ROV division worth more than £500,000. The work was performed in the UK sector of the North Sea…
P&O Maritime, a subsidiary of Dubai-based global marine terminal operator DP World, has acquired a majority stake in Remolcadores de Puerto y Altura S.A. (Repasa), a Spanish operator of offshore support vessels. P&O and Repasa will form a new joint-venture company under the P&O Maritime brand…
GeoPartners, in partnership with Seabird Exploration Multi-Client and DownUnder GeoSolutions, has announced a new multiclient 2D (MC2D) seismic project in the Frontier UK Rockall Basin offshore the north west coast of Scotland. The Rockall…
Watch as Nexen’s video gives insight into the four-day operation needed to lift and install the production, utilities and quarters (PUQ) deck for the Golden Eagle area development offshore, approximatley 70km northeast of Aberdeen…
Ithaca Energy has completed a flow test on the fourth development well on the UK North Sea Stella field, hitting 12,005boe/d. The result takes the total field potential up to 45,000boe/d, exceeding the firm's 30,000boe/d annualised estimate for the field…
An announcement on the second Greek offshore licensing round is expected this month. The Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change announced the round would be launched upon publication of the Notice of the Call for Tenders in the Official Journal of the European Union…
The outlook for the deepwater and ultra deepwater market is positive, with a forecast capital growth rate of around 8% between 2014 and 2018, according to Infield Systems Ltd.’s deepwater and ultra deepwater report. Infield Systems anticipates…
Denmark is the European Union’s (EU) only net exporter of oil. The Nordic state’s oil exports totalled approximately 13.7MMboe in 2013. This is in stark contrast to the EU’s only other significant oil producer, the UK, which became a…
Fractured basement reservoir explorer Hurricane Energy says post-well data analysis of its 1km horizontal appraisal well 205/21a-6 well test in Q2 this year has shown better than expected results. The firm said the well, which tested…
The Centrica Energy-operated 43/13b-7 Pegasus West well in the Southern North Sea indicated the presence of gas, reported partner Atlantic Petroleum. Following the analysis of available data, the joint venture has decided to drill stem test the well…