C-MAR Group has highlighted the UK’s escalating skills gap as the most critical issue facing the UK industry today. Speaking as the industry gathered for the Offshore Europe Conference in Aberdeen today, Chief Operating Officer Peter Aylott…
CGG announced that it has started the re-imaging of its entire Cornerstone multi-client dataset to create a 35,000sq km contiguous broadband PSDM volume, covering the Central North Sea. The existing conventional north-south, long-offset data…
Technip signed a four-year frame agreement with Petrobras for projects modifications services for the Rio de Janeiro Operations Unit, including existing offshore platforms located in the Campos Basin area, Brazil. The services comprise basic and detailed design…
Exmar signed a letter of intent (LOI) with LNG Partners, LLC and LNG BargeCo BVBA for the long-term charter of a Floating Liquefaction & Storage Unit (FLSU) to serve the BC LNG Project near Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada. As a focal point for the alliance…
Wood Mackenzie presented its view of the role of independent oil and gas companies globally in the keynote session: “The independent oil company – mighty oaks from little acorns grow.” This peer group has been at the forefront of conventional exploration…
Integrated drilling and environmental solutions firm TWMA says it has become the first company to be awarded an offshore processing contract in Angola. The agreement, worth up to $35m, will see TWMA take the concept of offshore processing to the rapidly developing area…
UK Trade & Investment presented a varied session on petroleum investment opportunities in East and West Africa today, focusing on Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, and Ghana. Mrs. Wanjiku Manyara, general manager of the Petroleum Institute of East Africa…
Jack-up barge provider Gulf Marine Services is building its third E-Class jack-up vessel, GMS Enterprise, it has announced. The vessel will add to GMS’ two existing E-Class units, GMS Endeavour and GMS Endurance. GMS Enterprise will…
About 40 oil and gas students from across Europe are taking part in the final of the inaugural SPE Europe Petro League today. Through case study analysis and fast-paced oil and gas question and answer rounds, students will have the chance…
Emas AMC’s newly converted S-lay deepwater pipelay vessel Lewek Centurion has just completed its first contract since its conversion, laying pipe for Wintershall in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The vessel was acquired from Helix Energy Solutions in July…
Centrica Energy, stand 5D50, has completed its longest horizontal well using the Noble Julie Robertson (NJR) jack-up rig on the southern North Sea gas field. Running 19,000feet (6km), the extended reach well was drilled between December…
This decade is a unique opportunity for European contractors and suppliers to really go for it in terms of looking to win a larger global share of the supply market, Malcolm Brinded said yesterday. Brinded, of the Shell Foundation, was chairing…
Representatives from Brazil’s government and oil and gas industry advocated strongly for British investment at UKTI’s panel discussion on Brazil Tuesday morning. “Several companies are going to Brazil, and now is the time to go,” said Carlos Camerini…
At the outset of the plenary session Tuesday morning, conference chair Malcolm Webb led the room in a moment of silent reflection for the victims, survivors, families, and rescue personnel involved in the helicopter crash off Shetland last week…
The Macondo well catastrophe occurred more than three years ago, but it continues to serve as a central reference point in any assessment of contemporary offshore drilling, not least at today’s SPE Offshore Europe keynote session, Industry Progress since Macondo…
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