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Wood Wins $75M Mariner Field Deal with Equinor

Oct 14, 2020

Engineering services giant Wood has secured a contract to support Equinor's operations at the Mariner field in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).Under the three-year deal, Wood will deliver operations, maintenance, modifications, and offshore…

'Marine Seismic Survey Disruptor' Gets Industry Funding

Oct 14, 2020

Blue Ocean Seismic Services, a company that describes itself as 'the marine seismic survey disruptor,' has secured a total of £10 million of Series A investment from bp Ventures, Woodside Energy, and Blue Ocean Monitoring.The company will use…

Borr Drilling Names Veteran Oilfield Services Exec as New CFO

Oct 14, 2020

Jack-up drilling rig contractor Borr Drilling has appointed Christoph Bausch as its new Chief Financial Officer, replacing Francis Millet with effect from November 1, 2020.Previously, Bausch served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Weatherford…

BP to Start Shipping Gas from Azerbaijan to Europe by Year-end

Oct 14, 2020

Oil major BP has confirmed plans to start shipping natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe by the end of the year, as concerns about the military conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region have heightened.Armenia and Azerbaijan have been involved…

Tocardo Buys 1.25MW Tidal Power Plant

Oct 13, 2020

Dutch tidal power specialist Tocardo has agreed to buy the 1.25MW Oosterschelde Tidal Power Plant, dubbed the largest tidal array in the world. . The plant is installed on the Dutch Oosterscheldekering surge barrier.The Oosterschelde Tidal Power Plant consists of five T-2 tidal turbines…

Ulstein Names Marti as CEO

Oct 13, 2020

Norwegian shipbuilder and vessel design group Ulstein announced Tuesday that its CFO Cathrine Kristiseter Marti has been promoted to replace long-serving CEO Gunvor Ulstein, who has decided to step down.Marti will take over as CEO on November 2 after six years as Ulstein Group's CFO…

DNV GL Inspects Aker BP's Offshore Cranes Remotely

Oct 13, 2020

Maritime classification and services company DNV GL led a pilot project with the Norwegian oil firm Aker BP to remotely inspect three offshore cranes on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.DNV GL performed remote safety inspections of one box boom…

Van Oord to Remove Silt from Averijhaven to Make Room for Energy Port

Oct 13, 2020

Dutch marine and offshore services contractor Van Oord has won a contract to design and carry out the removal of silt from the Averijhaven depot in IJmuiden, The Netherlands, creating space for what will eventually become an energy port for offshore wind…

Cathie, BGS to Develop Ground Model for Two Scottish Offshore Wind Farms

Oct 13, 2020

Offshore geoscience and geotechnical engineering consultancy, Cathie and the British Geological Survey have won a contract with offshore wind developer SSE Renewables to develop a ground model for the FEED design of Berwick Bank and Marr Bank offshore wind farms in Scotland…

Neptune Energy to Cut Well Planning Time, Costs with Halliburton's Cloud Apps

Oct 13, 2020

Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has reached an agreement with oilfield services and technology company Halliburton, for the used of Halliburton's DecisionSpace 365 well construction suite of cloud applications, that could save the oil company $20 million a year…

Enhanced Drilling Appoints New CEO

Oct 13, 2020

Norwegian offshore drilling equipment provider Enhanced Drilling has appointed Kjetil Lunde as Chief Executive Officer.Enhanced Drilling said that Lunde had been a key member of the senior management team since 2016 as VP of Finance and Business Support…

Equinor's Fire-hit Arctic LNG Plant to Resume Operations on Jan. 1

Oct 13, 2020

Equinor's Melkoeya liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Norway is expected to resume output on Jan. 1, 2021, after it was damaged in a fire last month, the company said in a regulatory statement on Monday.The fire on Sept. 28 in one of the plant's…

Tensions Spike as Turkey Redeploys 'Oruc Reis' in Mediterranean Sea

Oct 12, 2020

Tensions spiked between Greece and Turkey on Monday over offshore rights in the eastern Mediterranean, with Athens vowing to push its EU peers to activate sanctions against Ankara.The deterioration in relations followed the departure earlier on Monday of a Turkish ship…

FLASC, Subsea 7 Working on Non-battery Energy Storage Solutions

Oct 12, 2020

FLASC, a start-up developing non-battery based energy storage solutions for the offshore sector has entered a collaboration with offshore installation giant  Subsea 7.FLASC's patented Hydro-Pneumatic Energy Storage (HPES) concept combines pressurized…

Norway Oil Strike Ends After Wage Agreement

Oct 09, 2020

Norwegian oil firms struck a wage bargain with labor union officials on Friday, ending a 10-day strike that had threatened to cut the country's oil and gas output by close to 25% next week, negotiators for each side told Reuters.Brent oil prices fell by more than 1% on the news to $42…

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