Deltamarin has signed a contract with Bumi Armada for the basic design of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit. The move comes after Bumi Armada secured a contract to supply the FPSO to operate on EnQuest's Kraken field…
Able UK has been awarded a contract for the disposal of four offshore structures from the Shell operated Brent field in the North Sea. The contract will see three platform topsides, as well as a 138m-high steel platform jacket, transported from the Brent field…
Oil and gas engineering services business Plexus Holdings has announced an agreement to renew for an additional three years a supply contract with Wintershall Noordzee for surface wellhead and mudline equipment services in the Dutch North Sea…
Bibby Offshore picked up the company of the year award in Subsea UK's ninth annual business awards, held in Aberdeen. The event, attended by more than 800 people form the subsea sector, was held on the evening of the first day of the Subsea Expo conference and exhibition…
Belgium's Exmar and Canada's Pacific Rubiales Energy (PRE), through its wholly-owned affiliate Pacific Midstream Holding, announced the ordering of a barge-based floating LNG regasification unit under a 50/50 joint venture. The unit will…
The number of fields which began producing oil and gas in the UK hit its highest level for five years in 2013, as a number of operators focused on development activity. This is according to the latest report into offshore activity from Deloitte…
WaveRoller, the breakthrough wave energy device created by the wave energy developer AW-Energy, has received independent performance verification, taking the wave power industry one step closer to commercialization. An extensive…
Marine energy technology has been in development for decades and, in the past 10 years, interest and investment in marine and tidal technologies have increased. However, marine energy still lags 15-20 years behind offshore wind, says Kevan Stokes…
Spain's Zamakona Yards has launched its second Havyard HY820-design field support and emergency response vessel, the Ocean Marlin. The vessel, which is due to work in the North Sea for French oil major Total from Q2, is the second of three vessels Zamakona Yards will launch…
Premier Oil CEO, Simon Lockett, announced his plans to step down from the company once a successor can be found. Lockett's move follows Premier Oil's concept select decision on the Sea Lion development, a 394MM boe project, in 450m water depth…
Royal Boskalis Westminster subsidiary SMIT Salvage has been awarded a contract to remove a damaged jack-up platform from the seabed offshore Angola. During its installation near a pigging platform in July 2013, the platform suffered a…
Aberdeenshire-based subsea specialist ROVOP has expanded its fleet of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) by taking delivery of four new hydraulic work class systems, with a further four new ROVs expected later in the year. The company…
Aberdeen-based oil and gas services firm Sparrows' chief executive Doug Sedge is to stand down after four and a half years with the company. Stewart Mitchell will take over as chief executive of the firm on 10 March 2014. During his tenure…
Fugro and CGG's joint venture business Seabed Geosolutions has won a US$70 million contract to carry out a major ocean bottom cable (OBC) contract for PETRONAS Carigali in Malaysia on the Temana and D18 fields. The project will start at the end of Q1 2014…
The Solberg prospect, operated by Germany's Wintershall (35% equity), is 4km northeast of the Tyrihans field and 8km southeast of UK-based explorer Faroe Petroleum’s Maria discovery (2010). Drilling is being carried out using the…
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