A charter agreement between expanding subsea contractor DeepOcean and Maersk Supply Service has triggered an order for a Damen Offshore Carrier DOC 8500 - the second order for this new ship design from Damen Shipyards Group. The…
UK and Singapore headquartered services firm Cape has acquired UK-based Motherwell Bridge, a provider of storage tanks, gasholders and heat exchangers to the energy and steel markets for £37.65 million. Motherwell Bridge, headquartered in Lanarkshire…
Power and automation group ABB has won three orders worth US$60 million for internal and external telecommunication systems for three Statoil projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The three contracts are signed with shipyards in South Korea…
Shell quits Alaska: Royal Dutch Shell will discontinue its 2014 plans for drilling offshore Alaska. Shell’s U-turn on Alaskan drilling follows a profit warning and a court judgment, raising “substantial obstacles” to the company’s plans for drilling in the Chukchi Sea…
Well completions were given a workover in the first Simplified Series talk of 2014 in Aberdeen in January. The talks are held monthly and organized by the Society of Petroleum Engineer’s Aberdeen chapter Young Professionals group. January’s talk…
Dutch spoolable thermoplastic composite pipe systems firm Airborne Oil & Gas and Dallas-based Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, have signed a strategic supply agreement for the development and supply of composite materials for deepwater pipe systems…
Statoil Petroleum, operator of production license 248 C, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 35/11-16 S on the Juv prospect. The well was drilled about 5.5km north of the Fram field in the northern North Sea, and about 130km northwest of Bergen…
ConocoPhillips Norge is due to start a multi-year drilling campaign on the Greater Ekofisk area, offshore Norway, this Spring, as it seeks to continue production from the Ekofisk and Eldfisk fields for decades. The campaign follows start up on the Ekofisk South development…
Experts from the global oil and gas industry have heard that a catastrophic disaster can – and will – happen again if the lessons of Macondo and other similar incidents are not learned and shared routinely. The stark warning was issued…
Xodus Group, Cathie Associates, and UTEC Geomarine have formed a consortium which will aim to reduce the costs of generating electricity from offshore wind farms in UK waters. The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), which brings together nine offshore wind developers (DONG Energy…
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…
Bergen Group has decided to accelerate the process of reducing the group's future involvement in the shipbuilding business in favor of a more dedicated focus on offshore related activities. As a part of this process, Bergen Group…
First cut for Marathon Oil's Alba field B3 compression platform project was marked at Heerema Fabrication Group's (HFG) HFG Polska yard, in Opole, Poland, with project partner Iv-Oil & Gas (Iv). Operated by Marathon Oil subsidiary Marathon E…
SOSINA Exploration Ltd. announced a new 3D seismic program, which is planned to be acquired by Polarcus in the southern Porcupine basin, offshore southwest Ireland. The non-exclusive multi-client survey, is projected to commence this summer…
Some 5Tcf of natural gas reserves are sitting undeveloped in the Southern North Sea, an event on the basin heard today (5 March). John Westwood, of industry analysts Douglas Westwood, was speaking at the Southern North Sea 2014 conference in Norwich…