Praxair Offshore Services Ltd. acquired Scotland-based Dominion Technology Gases Investment Ltd., supplier of diving, welding, industrial, laboratory and calibration gases, and associated equipment to the offshore oil and gas industry. Through its acquisition…
Gryphon Alpha FPSO Maersk Oil’s vessel, stationed about 280km northeast of Aberdeen in the North Sea, has undergone a major dry dock overhaul, while infield subsea infrastructure was removed and replaced. A 4D seismic survey and near-field drilling was also done over the area…
We have all grown up with the concept of land use planning or town planning to allocate areas of land for certain uses or activities such as business, industry, agriculture, residential, or nature conservation. The same concepts can be applied to marine areas…
FMC Technologies, Inc. received an order from Shell for subsea equipment for its portfolio of projects in the Gulf of Mexico. The scope includes the supply of 12 enhanced vertical deepwater trees and controls. 'FMC Technologies has been…
Cal Dive International, Inc. has secured two contracts from Pemex worth a combined total of $188 million, the company announced on 15 May 2013. The scope of the first contract, which is worth an estimated $129 million, involves the procurement…
BP began production from the PSVM development in block 31, off Angola. Three wells at the Plutao field are expected to increase production at PSVM to about 70,000b/d of oil. Output will increase to 150,000b/d once Saturno, Venus, and Marte fields come online later this year and next…
SBM Offshore has agreed to the sale and transfer of GustoMSC to private equity group Parcom Capital for a consideration of approximately $185 million, to be paid in cash at closing. The sale is a first step in the divestment of some $400 million worth of non-core assets announced this summer…
SBM Offshore has signed a commercial development agreement with modular gas to liquid solutions provider CompactGTL to work exclusively together on the marketing and execution of projects involving associated gas challenges for offshore oil fields…
Bechtel and Subsea will work together to develop offshore wind and associated transmission projects in Europe, including the UK and Germany. Under a nonexclusive joint approach they will offer developers and utilities a single contracting group…
Technip has completed the acquisition of Stone & Webster process technologies and associated oil and gas engineering capabilities from Canada’s Shaw Group.
Michael Freeman has joined Aberdeen consultancy FQM as an associate director and is tasked with developing the firm’s specialist training division as an extension to its management systems support to SME’s.
Technip has entered into an agreement to acquire Stone & Webster process technologies and the associated oil and gas engineering capabilities from The Shaw Group for a cash consideration of approximately €225 million.
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.
There has been considerable progress in industrial hygiene issues in offshore environments in recent years. Dr Jas Singh, Golder Associates' Hawaii-based health & safety consultant, offers this primer. Experience in many offshore environments…
Chris Reinsvold (pictured) joins Preng & Associates in Houston as an executive search consultant in its oilfield services & equipment practice. He was most recently CEO of Decision Strategies, having earlier worked for Shell, Baker Hughes, Smith International, IHS, Cera and AT Kearney.