UK to resume fracking with control measures The UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) announced on 13 December that hydraulic fracturing can resume although the practice will be subject to new controls.The new controls announced…
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS (KOGT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen ASA (KONGSBERG), has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Apply Nemo AS, an independent supplier of advanced engineering services…
Transocean BarentsDana Petroleum has started drilling a new prospect in the Norwegian Sea in partnership with the operator Maersk Oil Norway.The drilling rig Transocean Barents has started operations on the Albert prospect in production license PL 513 in the Haltenbanken area…
Energistics, the upstream oil and gas standards consortium, announced today that Eric Toogood, Diskos Manager for the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), and Espen S. Johansen, Ph.D., Vice President Marketing and Commercialization – Production and Completion Systems for Weatherford…
DNV has appointed Stefan Nerpin as its new Group Vice President of Communications and External Relations for the DNV Group. Mr Nerpin brings with him extensive international leadership experience and a strong track record of corporate communications and branding…
Subsea mooring connector specialist First Subsea has invested over £200,000 in new mooring connector test rig facilities at its production site in Lancaster, UK. Designed for proof load and minimum breaking load testing up to 2600te (25…
UK business minister Michael Fallon opened market leader Bridon International’s new state-ofthe-art wire rope manufacturing facility in Newcastle last month. The event marked the commencement of manufacturing at Bridon Neptune Quay, developed…
Lankhorst Ropes offshore division has relocated its Portuguese production facility for deepwater mooring ropes and single point mooring (SPM) hawsers to a new purpose-built factory on the coast at Viana do Castello, about 80km north of Porto…
Gordon Birrell BP head of safety and operational risk for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, is replacing Rashid Javanshir as regional president. Javanshir, who had run BP’s AGT operations since 2009, returns to London as SVP for strategy and integration.
Peter Boyle has become Aberdeen-based UK regional director of DNV and is tasked with driving forward its offshore ageing and life extension business. Boyle, a chemical engineer, has worked for DNV for 18 years, most recently leading…
Dr Steven Cargill, one of GL Noble Denton’s leading technical authorities, was presented with the Marine Technology Society Dynamic Positioning Committee’s 2012 distinguished achievement award in recognition of his contribution to the field of DP over a 28-year oil & gas industry career…
Rhys Medler has been appointed to the newly created role of VP QHSSE and compliance with Senergy. Based in Aberdeen, he became Senergy’s global head of QHSSE in 2010 after three years as the energy services group’s survey & geo-engineering operations director.
Nils Adamsen has joined Danish consultants Ramboll Oil & Gas as business development director. Adamsen, a mechanical engineer, previously served with Disa Industries, Brüel & Kjær Vibro and Alfa Laval.
Lloyd Duncan and Andy Inglis have been appointed senior IRM consultant and inspection manager, respectively, for Bibby Remote Intervention. Inglis joins from Subsea 7 where Duncan also served before taking over as COO at MCS.
Lone Aboe Jessenn has become marketing manager at Esbjerg Business Development Centre, the Danish municipality’s focal point for the energy sector business support. She joins EBDC from marine and offshore equipment specialist Viking Life Saving Equipment…