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Tush Doshi new COO of Kentz's specialist EPC business unit

Dec 10, 2012

Tush Doshi succeeded the retiring James Moore as COO of Kentz's specialist EPC business unit last month. A former director of gas and power in Amec's power & process division, Doshi served most recently as VP of Jacobs' European and African field services division.

Toogood, Johansen named to Energistics board

Dec 10, 2012

Energistics, the upstream oil and gas standards consortium, announced today that Eric Toogood, Diskos Manager for the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), and Espen S. Johansen, Ph.D., Vice President Marketing and Commercialization – Production and Completion Systems for Weatherford…

Nerpin to head DNV's corporate communications

Dec 10, 2012

DNV has appointed Stefan Nerpin as its new Group Vice President of Communications and External Relations for the DNV Group. Mr Nerpin brings with him extensive international leadership experience and a strong track record of corporate communications and branding…

Tough Tether

Dec 09, 2012

Production and deployment of a bespoke, 7km long single length ROV fibre-optic hybrid cable was successfully accomplished by Italian cable manufacturer Novacavi for Finnish survey company Loxus Technologies' underwater inspection system…

Trenching spread delivered

Dec 09, 2012

Fugro recently took delivery of the first of two SMD QT1400 trenching systems for burial of cables, umbilicals and flowlines up to almost 36in diameter. The vehicle is equipped with a 3m jetting tool for soils of 100KPA, a mechanical chain…

Annulus Testing

Dec 09, 2012

Flexlife is providing independent assessment services worth up to $1.4 million for Petrobras' Cascade-Chinook subsea development in the Gulf of Mexico. The agreement involved annulus testing of the flexible risers, and work was to be carried…

Mighty Moorings

Dec 09, 2012

Subsea mooring connector specialist First Subsea has invested over £200,000 in new mooring connector test rig facilities at its production site in Lancaster, UK. Designed for proof load and minimum breaking load testing up to 2600te (25…

Rope Trick

Dec 09, 2012

UK business minister Michael Fallon opened market leader Bridon International’s new state-ofthe-art wire rope manufacturing facility in Newcastle last month. The event marked the commencement of manufacturing at Bridon Neptune Quay, developed…

Portugal Plant

Dec 09, 2012

Lankhorst Ropes offshore division has relocated its Portuguese production facility for deepwater mooring ropes and single point mooring (SPM) hawsers to a new purpose-built factory on the coast at Viana do Castello, about 80km north of Porto…

Testing Times

Dec 09, 2012

Four independent testing rooms, an integrated command and control center, a core preparation laboratory, and an extensive perforated core analysis laboratory for post-test evaluation are among the facilities at Halliburton’s new state-of…

ABB lights up Martin Linge

Dec 07, 2012

Martin Linge field illustrationSubsea 7 grants ABB $170Mln power cable deal Subsea 7 has chosen ABB to build a power link between two North Sea oil and gas fields and the Norwegian power grid, ABB announced on 6 December 2012.The project…

Rosneft, Exxon form tight oil project

Dec 07, 2012

ExxonMobil's Rex TillersonMajors to jointly develop Siberian tight oil Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed a pilot development agreement establishing a joint project to assess the possibility of commercial production of tight oil reserves at the Bazhenov and Achimov formations in Western Siberia…

Enbridge plans $6.2B expansion

Dec 07, 2012

Light Oil Market Access Program mapPipeline expansion targets light oil markets Enbridge Inc. has received shipper support to proceed with a $6.2 billion program to expand access to markets for growing volumes of North Dakota and western Canada light oil production…

Wartsila in Harvey Gulf supply pact

Dec 07, 2012

Vessel illustrationWartsila supplies LNG package for Harvey GulfHarvey Gulf has chosen Wärtsilä to supply a complete LNG package, including propulsion, auxiliaries and controls, for its new STX Marine-designed offshore support vessel bound for the U…

Gordon Birrell new regional president of BP

Dec 07, 2012

Gordon Birrell BP head of safety and operational risk for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, is replacing Rashid Javanshir as regional president. Javanshir, who had run BP’s AGT operations since 2009, returns to London as SVP for strategy and integration.

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