The Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association’s European Chapter (ICoTA) will examine the role of wireless communication technology and its benefits in well intervention at its next lunch and learn session on 20 May. The presentation,…
Alimak Hek Group AB is buying the offshore operations of Heis-Tek, a Norwegian specialized traction elevator company, focused on tailored vertical access solutions to the oil and gas industry. “This acquisition will allow us to become…
Emerson Process Management has today announced the successful first deployment of its Roxar Downhole Wireless PT Sensor System. The new instrument has been deployed as part of the completion on Statoil’s Skuld field in the Norwegian North Sea…
UK-based subsea services firm Reef Subsea is to split up into three independent companies after its January buyout by Norwegian private equity outfit Hitecvision. The three new companies will be Reef Subsea, X-Subsea, and Technocean Subsea…
Offshore grouting contractor FoundOcean has secured two contracts on the Solan oil field development west of the Shetland in the North Sea. The contracts, with Heerema Marine Contractors and Bibby Offshore,& cover structural grouting on the 8000-tonne Solan platform jacket and its 300…
A third well is now producing in the Sapinhoá field, Petrobras announced, in keeping with the target date given when its preceding well was brought onstream in February. Well 7-SPH-04-SPS, which lays in 2120m of water on Block BM-S-9 of the Santos basin presalt region…
MAN compressor installed offshore MAN Diesel & Turbo in Zurich was awarded a contract to deliver a HOFIM (high-speed, oil-free, integrated motor) compressor to Det norske oljeselskap ASA. It is MAN’s first hermetically-sealed compressor to be installed on an offshore production platform…
Norwegian oil services technology firm Cubility AS has been bought from private equity firm Energy Ventures by a Triton Partners fund. The firm, based in Sandnes, has developed MudCube, a solids control and waste management system for drilling operations…
Missed out on the top stories this week? Here are our top three most-viewed stories from the past week: OAA winners shine - More than 500 industry professionals came together at the sparkling 28th Offshore Achievement Awards ceremony in Aberdeen…
North Sea independent EnQuest plans to spend about US$1 billion on new projects in 2014, including about $400 million on the Kraken FPSO development. A further $200 million will be spend on the Alma/Galia development, due on stream in H2 this year…
More than 500 industry professionals came together at the sparkling 28th Offshore Achievement Awards ceremony in Aberdeen, last night. The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section organized and hosted the awards, “the industry Oscars”…
Austrian integrated energy firm OMV has boosted its UK west of Shetland holdings after agreeing to buy four licenses in the area from Hess, including the Cambo field and the Blackrock prospect, for US$50 million. Depending on future developments…
CB&I announced it has been awarded a contract by Bechtel valued at about US$625 million to provide structural, mechanical and piping construction work for all outside battery limits modules and associated units for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project at Ashburton North in Western Australia…
Glacier Energy Services has bought Professional Testing Services (PTS), the provider of non-destructive testing (NDT) and inspection services to the oil and gas and offshore renewable sectors. Headquartered in Aberdeen, Glacier’s…
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) is to buy Fairmount Marine B.V. and Fairmount Ocean Towage Company B.V. (Fairmount) from the French group Louis Dreyfus Armateurs. Fairmount is a global provider of long-distance ocean towage services operating five…
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