Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) announced Tuesday that it intends to divest its activities at the locations in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands and Hartlepool, U.K. The Dutch firm, which builds large structures for the offshore energy industry,…
All all-Italian team is hoping to offer the offshore industry smarter and more efficient solutions, by bringing their heads together. Elaine Maslin reports. Fincantieri's Overdrill. Photo from Fincantieri…
The 450-tonne Elettra platform deck sailed away from Rosetti Marino's Piomboni Yard in Marina di Ravenna on July 7, and on Monday 14, the deck was installed in the Adriatic Sea, 33 miles offshore Ancona, Italy. The scope of work assigned…
Industrija nafte (INA), d.d. and Edison International have finally launched production on the North Adriatic Izabela gas field project, 60km off Pula, Croatia. Total gas reserves are estimated at about 1.4 billion cu m (8.5MMboe), with production expected at about 280 million cu m/y (4…
First gas has been produced from the Jasmine field in the central UK North Sea. Jasmine, operated by ConocoPhillips, is the largest discovery to come onstream in the North Sea since the giant Buzzard field began production in 2007, according to BG Group…
A high level of fabrication activity in and around the North Sea is attracting new players. Elaine Maslin reports. Platform fabrication for new installations in North Sea will reach fever pitch this year as a historically high number of facilities are completed for load out…
This year’s OMC conference ‘Charting a course in a changing sea’ attracted more than 560 companies from 30 countries to Ravenna, Italy, for 26 technical sessions and 120 speakers. But the changing gas market was on everyone’s mind. US shale gas…
Recent events in North Africa provide a stormy backcloth to the Offshore Mediterranean Conference (OMC) in Ravenna 23-25 March, but the region nonetheless remains a highly prospective one for the offshore sector especially with Noble beginning to unlock the treasures of the Levantine Basin…
Things are stirring on the UK continental shelf if the attendance at last month’s Pilot Share Fair in Aberdeen is anything to go by. More than 1000 people, including Meg Chesshyre, turned out to hear from major operators and contractors about their strategies for future North Sea projects…