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Danos wins Appomattox contract

Aug 26, 2015

Danos has been selected by Shell to fabricate three boarding valve skid assemblies for its deepwater Appomattox project. The project, which will engage five Danos divisions – coatings, fabrication, instrumentation and electrical, project management and procurement – will begin immediately…

Wood Group Intetech awards multiple contracts

Aug 26, 2015

Wood Group Intetech (WGI), an asset integrity specialist, has been awarded US$1 million worth of work in the form of 11 new contracts from new and existing clients. The agreements span the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, and include…

North Energy sells Barents Sea stake

Aug 24, 2015

North Energy has entered into an agreement with Det norske oljeselskap, whereby Det norske will acquire North Energy's 10% interest in production license 722. The license was awarded in the 22nd licensing round, and is subject to a drill or drop decision in 2Q 2016…

DONG acquires Hornsea, project rights

Aug 21, 2015

Image: wind turbines at sea/iStock DONG Energy acquired the Hornsea zone and the project rights to Hornsea Project Two and Three, which have the potential of 3 gigawatts (GW) offshore wind capacity…

Ecopetrol board to form Colombian subsidiary

Aug 21, 2015

Image: Ecopetrol The board of directors of Ecopetrol, in its meeting held on 14 August, 2015, authorized the creation of a Colombian company indirectly wholly-owned by Ecopetrol…

Lime acquires North Sea stake

Aug 21, 2015

Image: North Sea license PL410/Hibiscus Petroleum Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad has announced that its jointly-controlled entity, Lime Petroleum Norway has executed an agreement…

LQT awarded two accommodation projects

Aug 18, 2015

Image: LQT Industries, LLC LQT Industries, LLC has been awarded two projects to upgrade and refurbish single lift accommodations that house a total of 320 personnel on a drillship and a semisubmersible located in the Gulf of Mexico…

Aquatic wins Moho Nord work

Aug 18, 2015

Aquatic Engineering and Construction Ltd. has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract on the US$10 billion Moho Nord subsea project, 75 km off the coast of the Republic of Congo, West Africa. The contract was awarded by a UK-based subcontractor working for Total E&P Congo…

TCO expands workforce

Aug 18, 2015

Image: Paul Betteridge, TCO director/TCO TCO has confirmed a continuation of strong sales results, leading to the expansion of its Aberdeen workforce by a third. Within the past six months…

Accenture to buy Schlumberger unit

Aug 18, 2015

Global management consultancy and services firm Accenture has agreed to acquire Schlumberger Business Consulting (SBC), Schlumberger's management consulting unit. Accenture says the acquisition will expand its capabilities in helping…

Shell, COSCOL sign transport contract

Aug 17, 2015

COSCO Shipping Co. Ltd. (COSCOL) has signed a contract with Shell Offshore Inc. for the transportation of the Appomattox semisubmersible offshore platform hull from South Korea to Ingleside, Texas. This contract was awarded as part of an enterprise frame agreement between Shell and COSCOL…

Sonardyne opens French office

Aug 17, 2015

Sonardyne, a specialists in subsea navigation and positioning technology, has opened its first permanent office in France to expand its presence in the region. The announcement follows the opening of a second Sonardyne office in Brazil earlier this year…

Oil spill recovery system sets record

Aug 14, 2015

Norwegian offshore player Egersund Group recently set a new oil spill recovery record when its newly developed Marine Oil Spill (MOS) Sweeper system managed to recover 96.4% of oil released in a North Sea exercise.     Image…

TAM restructures regional support

Aug 12, 2015

Image: TAM International TAM International has restructured its regional businesses into two individual hemisphere-based groups in order to achieve higher performance rates and streamline its business objectives…

Trendsetter completes containment project

Aug 12, 2015

Trendsetter Engineering has completed work on a containment toolkit that can be deployed to minimize the environmental impact of a subsea well incident. This follows their delivery of four subsea well capping stacks, designed to shut in an uncontrolled subsea well…

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