Dr. Lena Wilson, chief executive of Scottish Enterprise and chair of Scotland’s Energy Jobs Taskforce, is leading the first ever delegation of Scottish companies to Myanmar in a bid to identify trade, investment and collaboration opportunities in the market…
Quest Offshore assesses the drilling, subsea, and marine construction dynamics affecting of one of the world’s pre-eminent deepwater basins amid the downturn. The Gulf of Mexico has long been a region of critical importance to the global deepwater industry…
NorSea Group (UK) has won a five-year contract with Wild Well Control for the storage of its emergency response WellCONTAINED System at NorSea Group’s facilities in South Base, Montrose. The WellCONTAINED system of services includes…
At 300m below the surface of the Norwegian Sea, the world’s first subsea gas compression facility has come on stream, Statoil announced this morning. The NOK 19 billion (US$2.34 billion) Åsgard subsea gas compression project, known as project Nemo to some internally…
Oil and gas firms must learn lessons from other UK industries and fundamentally change the way they operate if they are to successfully compete for international investment and maximize recovery across the UK continental shelf (UKCS) over the next 25 years…
Statoil has handed out the largest contracts for the UK North Sea’s Mariner field that are worth more than US$1.57 billion (£1 billion) to the companies established in Aberdeen. Mariner. Image from Statoil…
UK-based ASCO Group is to provide supply base services for Austrian operator OMV's operations in the Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea. The contract, ASCO's first with OMV, will last three years from 1 January 2016 with two, one-year option periods…
BP Exploration and Production awarded ASCO a US$149 million contract to provide a range of integrated oilfield services to support its UK North Sea operations. The comprehensive, five-year contract covers a variety of activities including: supply-base operations…
Ferguson Group Singapore appointed OPS Oilfield Equipment and Services Ltd (OPS-OES) as the group’s new exclusive partner for Thailand. Simon de Koning, Business Unit Manager at the group’s Singapore Module Yard at Loyang Offshore Supply Base…
Statoil has chosen UK-based oilfield support services firm Asco for its supply base and warehousing services on the UK North Sea Mariner field. The contract comes under two five-year contracts, with extension options, due to start in Q1 2016…
Statoil has awarded service contracts for seven supply bases for the company in Norway to NorSea Group, Saga Fjordbase and Asco Norge. The contracts include terminal and warehouse services as well as storage and pipeline handling. “Logistics…
Oilfield services group ASCO's CEO and chairman are leaving the business, the company revealed today by announcing it had appointed Alan Brown as its new CEO. The firm has appointed former business services firm Rentokil Initial CEO Alan Brown as its new CEO…
Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine announced they invested millions of dollars in the purchase of an American company and in a new facility in Singapore. The SSP Hub is capable of integrated delivery…
Swire Oilfield Services has launched what it is describing as the industry’s first full-service track and trace service - OverVu. The system was developed to tackle the multi-billion dollar problem of lost, misplaced and delayed equipment in the oil and gas industry…
Aquatic Asia Pacific Pte relocated its regional headquarters to the east coast of Singapore, where all Asia-based aquatic equipment is stored and mobilized. The new office suite is part of the existing operations base. This move brings…