Asset integrity management firm XPD8 Solutions is to develop the maintenance program and inventory data for MODEC’s TEN MV25 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, operated on behalf of Tullow Oil, offshore Ghana. The…
Gloucester-based Advanced Insulation Systems (AIS) has acquired Manuplas, a specialist in providing customer polymer solutions to the marine, offshore, renewable energy and leisure markets. AIS manufactures specialist materials used to insulate sub-sea infrastructure and fire proof oil rigs…
Dealing with the by-products of oil and gas drilling in an environmentally friendly manner is an issue the energy industry has grappled with for years. It is one that has captured the imagination of one Robert Gordon University (RGU)…
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) has signed an engineering services agreement with Workfox, a subsidiary of Seafox Group, to do an engineering study for a purpose-built…
Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM) – the joint venture between Shell and ExxonMobil – has renewed and extended its Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) contract with Royal HaskoningDHV. The three-year contract covers risk above…
Boskalis said that salvage work to remove a capsized jackup from shallow waters near Angola's new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant should be completed by March 2015. The three-legged Perro Negro 6 jackup drilling rig (shown at…
GE Oil & Gas announced today a technology collaboration with Mexico Institute of Petroleum (IMP) and Mexico state-owned company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Pemex sponsors the agreement, which GE Oil & Gas said would “initially [research]…
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) participated in a day-long Government Initiated Unannounced Exercise on 24 April 2014, involving Occidental Petroleum Corp. (OXY). The table-top exercise exercise, held in Huntington Beach…
Singapore-based shipowner and operator, Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Ltd. (SPO) celebrated the launch of its new D-Class anchor-handling tug supply vessel, Pacific Dragon, on 18 Apr 2014. This is the eighth and final D-Class vessel…
Rowan Companies plc confirmed that Thomas P. Burke (pictured) has been elected as CEO of the company. In addition, H.E. Lentz retired as the chairman of the board of directors, W. Matt Ralls was appointed as the executive chairman of the…
Reflex Marine has become the first European company to have its technology certified by the Brazilian Navy, the accredited body for offshore safety in the region. The certification relates to the company’s FROG-6 (pictured) device and…
Hurricane Energy plc announced that the Lancaster horizontal appraisal well was spudded on 26 April 2014. The firm is using the Transocean Sedco 712 semi-submersible drilling rig for the operation which is intended to drill and test the Lancaster basement oil discovery…
RWE Innogy UK announced that it has successfully completed the installation of all 160 foundations at the world’s second largest wind farm, Gwynt y Môr, off of North Wales. Gwynt y Môr is a greater than US$3.36 billion offshore wind farm on schedule to become fully constructed this year…
AGR has been awarded a frame agreement with Det norske to provide well services and consultancy resources to the operator’s projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The agreement is effective 1 May 2014, with a duration of three years…
BG Group's CEO Chris Finlayson has resigned, with immediate effect, the UK-based exploration firm announced today, raising calls for the firm to be broken up and suggestions it would now be a takeover target. In a statement, BG said the resignation…