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Alphastrut completes BP North Sea contract

Dec 17, 2014

Alphastrut completed a seven-figure contract with BP for its Clair Ridge project. Image from BP.   The Alphastrut aluminium system was successfully installed on the BP Clair Ridge accommodation module…

Wood Group PSN cuts contractor rates

Dec 17, 2014

Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has said it is cutting the rates paid to its UK-based limited company offshore and onshore contract workers in response to 'cost efficiency challenges affecting the UK North Sea oil and gas sector.' In addition…

Statoil submits Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen development plan

Dec 16, 2014

Statoil and partners are investing US$610 million in its latest fast-track project to develop the Rutil discovery that aims to extend the lifetime of the Gullfaks A platform and provide approximately 80MMboe. Ivar Aasheim…

Production efficiency pain and gain

Dec 16, 2014

North Sea production efficiency rates are an embarrassment, says one of the basin’s leading independent operators. Elaine Maslin reports. The UK President of oil and gas independent EnQuest has said the North Sea industry should be 'shocked…

Chevron eyes new North Sea platform

Dec 15, 2014

Chevron North Sea is considering a new bridge-linked platform (BLP) on its Captain field in order to carry out an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project, using polymers, on the field.  Newly formed engineering group Amec Foster Wheeler has…

Aker on Mariner hook-up

Dec 15, 2014

Aker Solutions is to provide engineering, construction and commissioning services for the hook-up phase of the Mariner oilfield development in the UK North Sea under a contract Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering worth more than GBP120 million…

Senior management shake-up at ASCO

Dec 12, 2014

Oilfield services group ASCO's CEO and chairman are leaving the business, the company revealed today by announcing it had appointed Alan Brown as its new CEO. The firm has appointed former business services firm Rentokil Initial CEO Alan Brown as its new CEO…

Wood Group wins $750m BP contract

Dec 11, 2014

Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has been awarded a five year contract worth about $750million by BP for engineering, procurement and construction services on six UK continental shelf (UKCS) offshore upstream assets and the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) onshore midstream facilities in Grangemouth…

SBM to cut 1200 jobs

Dec 11, 2014

Floating production and mooring specialists SBM Offshore is cutting 1200 jobs and relocating its headquarters from Monaco to Amsterdam, the firm announced this morning.  SBM said: 'In light of market conditions and in order to optimize the company's cost base…

EPSI makes bid for Rocksource

Dec 11, 2014

Private equity back exploration outfit EPSI has made a NOK6/share offer for the remaining shares of Norwegian exploration firm Rocksource, valuing the firm at US$82 million.  EPSI, a HitecVision VII investment, initially increased its holding in Rocksource to 33…

Tendeka wins Statoil contract for sand screens with ICDs

Dec 10, 2014

Tendeka has secured a four-year contract extension with Statoil for the supply of sand-face completion equipment for the Troll field, as well as other fields under Statoil’s operation in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The agreement will see Tendeka install up to 40…

9% drop in UKCS jobs predicted

Dec 10, 2014

The UK’s oil and gas industry workforce is expected to contract 9%, or by 35,000 jobs, between this year and 2019 according to a newly released report.  Produced by professional services firm EY, for Oil & Gas UK, industry skills body OPITO and the Department for Business…

Det norske selects AVEVA for Ivar Aasen

Dec 08, 2014

Det norske oljeselskap has begun deployment of AVEVA’s Progressive Handover Solution to manage life cycle information for its Ivar Aasen field project in the North Sea. The AVEVA solution allows Det norske to benefit from improved information…

West Alpha to drill at Balder for ExxonMobil

Dec 08, 2014

ExxonMobil received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use the West Alpha semisubmersible drilling rig on the Balder field, in the central North Sea. The West Alpha. From North Atlantic Drilling…

UK offers tax reduction, HPHT allowance in Autumn Statement

Dec 03, 2014

For the UK Oil & Gas industry, today’s Autumn Statement by British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, offered the first cut in tax rates for the UK North Sea in 21 years. “There is record investment this year in the North Sea…

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