Industry excellence in health and safety was recognized at the UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards in Aberdeen at the end of April. The event recognizes and honors the companies and people who embody the spirit of safety and innovation across the sector…
Industry body Oil & Gas UK has appointed two oil company operator representatives to its board. Effective immediately, Glen Cayley (pictured), upstream director, Shell UK Limited, has been appointed vice chairman, representing the operator community…
Offshore industry body Oil & Gas UK has confirmed two new senior appointments to its board. Effective from spring 2014, Trevor Garlick, regional president North Sea at BP, and John Pearson, Group President, AMEC Europe, have been appointed as the co-chairmen of the organisation…
Maersk Oil UK has been given approval from the UK and Norwegian authorities to develop the Flyndre and Cawdor fields. The fields lie about 293 km south east of Aberdeen in UK North Sea Blocks 30/13 and 30/14 (Flyndre and Cawdor) and Norwegian North Sea Block 1/5 (Flyndre only)…
2H Offshore, an Acteon company, opened a newly refurbished 16,547 sq ft office space on the fourth and fifth floors of Hollywood House in the center of Woking, Surrey. 2H Offshore upgraded facilities to better service its clients and employees…
The UK Government has opened the country's 28th offshore oil and gas exploration licensing round, amid concerns about a slow-down in the basin. Wood Mackenzie’s annual review of UK upstream oil and gas said capital investment continued to increase…
Oil & Gas UK today published its UK Offshore Oil and Gas Fabricators Directory, providing a showcase for British construction yards which design and build major facilities for both domestic and international energy markets. The 80-page…
Alpha Petroleum (UK) Holdings Limited is the proposed buyer for ATP Oil and Gas UK Ltd (ATP UK), it has been revealed. Independent Oil and Gas plc, which is a partner in licenses operated by ATP UK, said US court documents posted today…
Oil & Gas UK, the representative organisation for the oil and gas industry, today announces new appointments to its board. The appointments are: Eric D’Argentre, UK General Manager, Perenco UK Luke Farajallah, Managing Director…
UK North Sea spending on well services has reached an all time high, according to a survey by industry body Oil & Gas UK. Its well well services sector report, based on a survey carried out since 1996, showed companies delivering drilling…
Contract covers Talisman Sinopec brownfieldsTroll C LPP module leaving Egersund (Photo: Aker Solutions)Aker Solutions has secured an important five-year frame agreement for the execution of contracts across Talisman Sinopec Energy UK Ltd's brownfield projects on the UK continental shelf…
Sinopec strikes $1.5B deal for Talisman UK JVTalisman Energy has completed its joint venture transaction with Sinopec subsidiary Addax Petroleum UK Limited (APUK) following receipt of government and regulatory approval, the company announced on 17 December 2012…
Overall, total capital investment on developing UK oil & gas reserves rose by 40% to £8.5 billion in 2011, according to Oil & Gas UK's 2012 Economic Report. Confirmation in the 2012 UK Budget of measures to promote activity in a targeted way…
OAA 2012 prize winners (left to right): Professor Alex Kemp (lifetime achievement); Shell UK’s Emma Stephenson (young professional) and Sandy Clark of Amec (large company).Expro Group’s David Shand (left) collects his company’s innovator award from BG’s Neil McCulloch…
In his opinion piece in last month's edition of Offshore Engineer, consultant Ian Fitzsimmons questioned whether the UK Health & Safety Executive's Offshore Division was fit for purpose in a post-Macondo world. Here, Steve Walker, head of the HSE's Offshore Division…