GMC was awarded two further caisson fabrications contracts from North Sea operators, following its recent and first caisson installation in the North Sea earlier this year. Image of the GMC SWL Caisson…
Houston’s KBR has been awarded two global agreements by BP International for the provision of conceptual engineering services, and another for the provision of pre-front end engineering design (FEED) and FEED engineering services. Each…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for wellbore 7120/1-5, to be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility. The drilling program for wellbore 7120/1-5 relates to the drilling of an appraisal well in production license 492…
Eni Norge is planning to drill a well on the Bone-Bignorna prospects in production licence 716 in the Barents Sea. Well 7318/12-11, in blocks 7318/11 and 7318/12, is about 320km north-west of Hammerfest in about 418m water depth…
Hurricane Energy has confirmed a 'very significant fractured basement discovery,' potentially containing more than 250 MMbbl recoverable, in its Lincoln field appraisal well offshore west of Shetland, UK, the firm says. The well has…
EnQuest has named Neil McCulloch as the company’s new chief operating officer (COO), who will also join the board as an executive director. McCulloch, currently EnQuest’s president, North Sea, is being promoted to the group position of COO…
Weatherford International has appointed Christoph Bausch as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), effective 13 December 13. Bringing many years of financial and operational management experience, Bausch joined the…
As a result of a significant Fugro technology achievement, users of its G4 satellite correction service will be among the first in the world to benefit from Galileo’s much anticipated “initial services” launch, the company said. The launch…
A new “think tank” has been launched to explore ways of tapping remaining gas supplies in the Southern North Sea. The SNS Rejuvenation Special Interest Group will look at ways of getting energy from reserves previously considered too tricky and expensive to exploit economically…
North Sea explorer Independent Oil and Gas has seen an increase in resource estimates on two southern North Sea prospects, Elgood and Harvey, following 3D seismic reprocessing work. Harvey, initially thought to be one discovery and a nearby prospect are now thought to be linked…
Aker BP extended the charter of the Safe Zephyrus semisubmersible accommodation vessel at the Ivar Aasen project in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The 10-day option extends on site operations through January 2017 and has a total value of about US$1…
Norway's Aibel has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for modifications on the Snorre A facility in connection with Statoil's Snorre Expansion project in the Norwegian Sea. The contract also has an option for the actual implementation phase…
Norvestor VII L.P. and Norvestor VII OS L.P., funds managed by Norvestor Equity, has signed an agreement to invest in Aberdeen-based READ Cased Hole, an independent provider of production logging and well integrity evaluation services. “In READ Cased Hole…
CS Wind will build a new offshore tower manufacturing facility in Campbeltown, Scotland as a result of a multi-million-dollar investment from DONG Energy. This investment will give DONG Energy preferred access rights to towers for its offshore wind farms…
Royal Dutch Shell’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Simon Henry will conclude his service as of the company after more than seven years in the role, and will be succeeded by Jessica Uhl. Henry will remain on the board as CFO until 9 March 2017 and sign the 2016 annual report…