Archer has purchased Aberdeen-based X-it Energy Services, developer and manufacturer of proprietary single-trip milling systems used for casing exits including controlled directional, multilateral and sidetrack drilling.
Produced water and production services specialist Cetco Oilfield Services is investing £1.5million in new equipment for its offshore rental fleet, including two CrudeSep produced water polishing units each capable of processing up to 40,000b/d and two Smart-tank oil water separators…
Aberdeen-headquartered mooring design firm Viking Moorings has been renamed Viking SeaTech and will now supply industry personnel, in addition to rig positioning, inspection, maintenance and associated rig support services globally from its bases in the UK, Singapore, Australia and Norway.
Eric Cayeux (pictured), chief scientist, drilling & well modeling, at the International Research Institute of Stavanger (Iris), is the 2012 recipient of Statoil’s research prize which comes with NKr200,000 and a Håkon Bleken lithograph…
Euan Sellar and Rob Harris have joined Aberdeen-based project management firm EPC Offshore to serve, respectively, as project manager on the final phases of Endeavour Energy’s Central North Sea Rochelle subsea development and as study team…
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…
Jørn Berg has joined subsea acoustic communication and positioning systems specialist Nautronix as VP sales for Norway. Berg, who has 25 years’ oil & gas industry experience, will be based at the company’s newly established Stavanger office.
Keith Gordon (pictured) heads up oil & gas consultancy Maxoil Solutions’ new OPS (operations performance strategy) division as consultant. He has more than 40 years’ experience in the sector, having held production operations and asset management posts internationally with BP and…
Dr Kirsi Tikka, (pictured), a VP and currently chief engineer at ABS, is relocating to London to assume the role of president and COO of the ABS Europe Division, which includes the wider Mediterranean region and Africa. She takes over…
Mike Bowyer was presented with Oil & Gas UK’s prestigious 2012 award for services to safety last month in recognition of his many years supporting the North Sea’s Step Change in Safety initiative. As co-chair of its workforce engagement steering group…
Sietze Hepkema, a Dutch qualified lawyer and former partner with Allen & Overy, has joined SBM Offshore as chief governance and compliance officer and will serve on the company’s management board. The appointment follows a recent review of the company’s compliance procedures…
Rob Fisher (centre) has joined Senergy Development Solutions (SDS), the fast-evolving engineering and project management group established in Aberdeen last August. Previously with Technip, he joins fellow directors Stuart McAuley (left)…
The well intervention operation undertaken by Total and Wild Well Control has succeeded in stopping a gas leak at Elgin’s G4 well, the French supermajor announced on 16 May 2012. Total’s president of E&P Yves-Louis Darricarrère called the outcome a ‘major turning point…
The urge to explore new offshore markets outwith its traditional base as a cement and stimulation additives supplier has seen chemical technology specialist Aubin diversify into buoyancy and ballasting territory in recent years. Meg Chesshyre discusses…
Dutch contractor Stork Technical Services continues to make inroads into the offshore oil & gas sector as it pursues its ambition to become a global force in the provision of maintenance, modification and overhaul services. Meg Chesshyre talks to the man with the plan…