Abu Dhabi-based subsea engineering and diving services firm DCN Global has been bought by Fugro Subsea Middle East. The company, which will be renamed Fugro Subsea Services (Middle East), has primarily operated in the Middle East, Caspian…
Houston-based GMC Inc. has been awarded a contract to deliver its high strength fatigue resistant mechanical connector product as part of Total’s Republic of Congo Moho Nord TLP project. GMC will supply over a hundred sets of its concentric thread…
Life-saving equipment firm Viking has bought a major stake in IT startup Saatsea. The firm, which will be renamed Viking Saatsea, provides cloud-based onboard training and competence management systems to industry. It was set up…
Kazakhstan's Kashagan oilfield has resumed production after its latest delay, a shutdown on September 25 following the detection of a gas leak. Discovered in 2000, it has taken 13 years and approximately $50 billion before production started on September 11…
Colloquy: Editor's Column Many stakeholder programs benefit from oil industry funding and local community approval gives oil companies a social license to operate. Just before the Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen, I discovered the…
Houston-based Annova LNG, LLC, has filed an application with the US Department of Energy (DOE) to receive authorization to export domestic LNG to free trade agreement (FTA) countries. While the Office of the United States Trade Representative…
Heavy lifting, transport and installation firm Jumbo has launched its new K3000 class vessels with the launch of the Jumbo Kinetic from the Brodosplit shipyard in Split, Croatia. The vessels have a large, unobstructed hold and flush decks and are certified 1A Finnish Swedish Ice Class…
Thalassa has agreed a deal to buy Go Science for £3.6 million from administrators. Go Science, which employs six people, provides mobile sensor grid services and products, in the UK and overseas, to the oil and gas, defense and homeland security sectors…
Abu Dhabi-based subsea engineering and diving services firm DCN Global has been bought by Fugro Subsea Middle East. The company, which will be renamed Fugro Subsea Services (Middle East), has primarily operated in the Middle East, Caspian and African regions…
Shale gas, and now tight oil has seen an unprecedented increase in energy supply in North America. It has entirely changed the energy landscape, resulting in a dramatic fall of the gas price and reversing long-term decline in US oil supplies…
Scandinavia’s oil and gas industry, focused on Norway and Denmark, is expecting a resurgence. Espen Erlingsen looks at trends in the sector. The North Sea is characterized by large, producing platforms with declining production. To stop the falling production in the North Sea…
Indian energy firm ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) has agreed to buy a 10% stake in the Rovuma Area 1 block, offshore Mozambique, from Anadarko, for US$ 2,640 million. Area 1 covers about 2.6 million acres in the deepwater Rovuma Basin and…
The TUP (transfer under pressure) Diving System, designed and built in-house by N-Sea, has undergone a refit and been converted to allow it be used as a mobile system, deployable from most DPII support vessels and platforms. The system will be online August 2013…
ESAB’s new Warrior cutting tool is a heavy-duty, multi-process welding machine with wire feeder. It was developed for reliability, minimal downtime, and maximum productivity. The machine will perform MIG/MAG (metal inert gas/metal active gas)…
Maersk Oil launched the web-only video game Quest for Oil early this summer with the aim of making the oil and gas industry more accessible. OE discusses the strategy behind the game with CEO Jakob Thomasen. Maersk Oil launched the video game…
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