Boyd Ross has been appointed sales director of the new Alderley Metering Solutions division (see ‘Firms’) and will be based mainly in Alderley’s Aberdeen facility.
Professor Jesus Talamantes-Silva heads up RD26 Ltd, a new company set up within Sheffield Forgemasters to service its internal engineering research and development work as well as taking on external contracts.
Neil Poxon has resigned as MD of global technology facilitator ITF to join US startup company PWAbsorbents as CEO.
Scott Laing has joined Aberdeen-based Coretrax Technology as BDM. He was previously with MI-Swaco in Egypt.
Chartered engineer Brendan Ryan has been named as COO of independent offshore survey company Utec, based in its Houston office.
New from Jotun are two new high performance coatings developed specifically for the the offshore industry and conforming with ISO20340 and Norsok M501 standards.Barrier Plus, a two-component zincrich epoxy primer, is said to provide optimal…
Gas systems specialist Wärtsilä Hamworthy attributes its recent success in securing significant flare gas recovery (FGR) system contracts with Petrobras, Statoil, BP, ConocoPhillips and other operators to three key elements in its FGR system: flare closure…
Swedish polymer and syntactic foam specialist Trelleborg Offshore officially opens its new facility in Brazil next month. It will manufacture the company’s complete product portfolio, including polymer-based solutions for topside and subsea application…
Norwegian multiphase meter manufacturer MPM has opened a new hyperbaric facility at its Forus, Stavanger, plant that will enable it to test its subsea systems for 4000m water depth rating. The company, which started up in 2003 and notched up revenues of NKr230 million last year…
Two complete ROV moonpool handling systems are to be delivered by Norwegian specialist Rapp Hydema for Ezra Marine Service’s newbuild vessel Constellation. The new-generation systems are designed for work class ROV operations down to 4000m.…
The recent run of success at Denmark’s Viking Life-Saving Equipment continues, with the privately owned, Esbjerg-based company insisting it’s all down to ‘solid growth in a market that can be as turbulent as the seas for which its products are designed’ – the offshore industry…
Ocean Riser Systems has joined forces with Enhanced Drilling Solutions, a division of AGR Group, to form AGR EDS-ORS. The move follows AGR’s agreement to purchase the entire shareholding in ORS, subject to financing and board approvals. The transaction was expected to complete in late August…
Aker Solutions has acquired two Norwegian companies, Subsea House and SSH Engineering, from Subsea Holding. The deal, due to complete in 3Q 2012, includes a subsea test facility for subsea products, systems and tools.
Bredero Shaw bagged its second contract for the Inpex/Total Ichthys LNG project in Australia. Awarded by McDermott and worth over $100 million, it calls for pipeline coating and related services for the project’s flowlines and tie-in spools.
The Canadian government, through the Atlantic Innovation Fund, kicked in C$3.2 million to help fund an $8.5 million oil & gas industry research project to improve DP operations in ice. Led by the Centre for Marine Simulation (CMS), the five…
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