Dutch international coating contractor Venko, which specialises in fabric maintenance, has set up its first UK base in the Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft (New Anglia) Enterprise Zone. The company was attracted by the incentives offered…
Total E&P UK has awarded Ocean Installer a contract for the recovery of casing at the Tomintoul location, west of the Shetland Islands. The scope of the work involves the cutting and recovery of 472m of 20in. downhole casing from the seabed…
Senergy was awarded a framework agreement by Statoil ASA to provide geotechnical representatives for site investigation work. The agreement, which has been secured through Senergy’s survey and geo-engineering division, is for projects on the Norwegian continental shelf…
In August 2013, Siemens Energy signed a chartering agreement with ship owner Esvagt A/S for two new offshore wind service vessels that will incorporate significant advancements in logistics, efficiency and operational capabilities. The vessels…
Huisman opened a new office in Bergen, Norway: Huisman Norge AS. The new representational office is a 100% subsidiary of Huisman and is set up to meet the increasing demand within the Norwegian offshore market. This is the first Huisman office in Scandinavia…
Senior representatives of the UK and Scottish governments will address the audience at Europe’s largest oil and gas conference and exhibition, SPE Offshore Europe 2013, in Aberdeen this September. More than 1,500 companies are exhibiting at the event…
Energy company E.ON has said a gas discovery in block 42/28d in the UK southern North Sea is bigger than first thought. A well on the Tolmount discovery, 40km off the coast of East Yorkshire and to the west of the E.ON-operated Babbage gas field…
The Jan De Nul Group has ordered a new vessel at the Uljanik Shipyard in Pula, Croatia. The vessel, which will be 138m-long with a deadweight of 10,500-tonne, will be a multipurpose vessel, able to carry out trenching and offshore support…
Subsea 7 has posted a record backlog of US$10.4 billion for Q2 2013, with tendering continuing to be high into Q3. But profits were hit by a US$300 million loss provision on the Guará-Lula NE project, offshore Brazil. Jean Cahuzac…
Heerema Fabrication Group’s Vlissingen fabrication yard has completed the fabrication of two jackets for the Golden Eagle Development project of Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd. With the departure of Nexen’s 6,400-ton PUQ (Production Utilities…
Eni S.p.A. CEO Paolo Scaroni and Eni E&P COO Claudio Descalzi met with Mozambique President Armando Guebuza today in Changara, the mineral district of Tete province in western Mozambique, to discuss Eni’s ongoing activities and projects in the country…
Faroe Petroleum completed the acquisition of a 10% non-operated interest in the BP-operated East Foinaven oil field and a 0.5% interest in the West of Shetland Pipeline System, both from Marubeni Oil & Gas (North Sea) Ltd . The net consideration payable for the acquisition of the interests…
NEL has invested US $386,666 in a new erosive flow center at its Glasgow base. The facility is the first in the UK to offer the complete range of erosive flow services, including flow testing, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), operation and performance assessment…
Lifting, drilling and subsea solutions specialist Huisman has secured new contracts for10 pipelay systems, with various major offshore pipelay contractors. The new contracts include: three 550mt tiltable lay systems (TLS) and one 325mt vertical lay system (VLS) for Subsea 7…
ITG Group has ordered two platform supply vessels (PSV) of the PX121 design from ULSTEIN. The ROC yard, China, will be constructing the two PSVs for ITG. The contract includes an option for two more vessels. ROC is a new yard starting…