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  • UK: Expro Clinches New Subsea Contract with TAQA

    28 February 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

      Leading international oilfield service company Expro announces today that it has secured a new subsea contract in the UK. TAQA Bratani has awarded Expro with a 12-month subsea contract in the North Sea. The contract will see Expro provide TAQA with large bore landing strings for their 2011 work scope, which includes the Falcon […]

  • UK’s Cairn Buys Norway’s Agora Oil & Gas

    3 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Cairn announces the acquisition of Agora Oil & Gas AS (Agora) subject to regulatory approval, a private Norwegian company with non-operated, exploration, appraisal and development assets in the United Kingdom (UK) and Norwegian North Sea. The enterprise value of the proposed acquisition of Agora as at 1 January 2012 was $375 million (m), including $58m […]

  • Island Drilling gets rig contract offshore UK

    22 March 2019
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Norwegian offshore driller Island Drilling has been awarded a contract by CNOOC for the Island Innovator rig for operations offshore the UK. 

  • Cranfield Works to Cut Tidal Energy Costs (UK)

    7 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    A project between Cranfield University and Sustainable Marine Energy, funded by the Low Carbon KEEP programme, has developed an innovative ‘platform’ designed to dramatically cut the cost and risks of tidal energy projects. The UK’s aging electricity generation infrastructure and reliance on imported fossil fuels and nuclear power is becoming a key concern to the […]

  • Ocean Installer hires Grand Canyon for UK ops

    15 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Ocean Installer has signed a short term charter for the OCV/ROV Grand Canyon in order to meet project requirements. Due to an increasing order book Ocean Installer is experiencing high utilisation of its current fleet and recognises the need for increased vessel capacity in the UK. “We have seen the need for additional vessels and […]

  • Bibby Offshore Welcomes Visit of Senior UK Minister

    10 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Aberdeen-based subsea installation contractor Bibby Offshore today hosted a visit by the Secretary of State for Scotland, Rt. Hon. Michael Moore MP, as part of a fact-finding mission on the energy sector in the city in conjunction with Oil & Gas UK. He joined senior representatives from Bibby Offshore for a tour of Aberdeen harbour […]

  • Polarcus Naila in Full Swing at “UK Breagh” Project

    8 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Polarcus Limited announces that upgraded Polarcus Naila has commenced full seismic production on Wednesday, 07 May, only three days after start of mobilization. Polarcus Naila is acquiring the “UK Breagh” RightBand(TM) multi-client project. The survey is designed to provide enhanced imaging of the Carboniferous Breagh field areas in UK Block 42/13 and to deliver improved […]

  • Subsea UK Sets Up Norfolk Networking Event

    22 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    Industry body, Subsea UK, is to bring subsea supply chain companies in Great Yarmouth together in the first networking event of its kind in Norfolk region on June 29, 2016. The event will focus on underwater activity in the oil and gas, defence, oceanology and marine renewables industries and will allow delegates to identify opportunities […]

  • PJ Valves chosen for FPSOs off UK and Malaysia

    24 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Infrastructure

    PJ Valves has been awarded two valve supply contracts for floating, production, storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs).

  • RGF Supports MCT’s Tidal Technology Development (UK)

    10 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Marine Current Turbines (MCT), a Siemens business, hosted a visit by Edward Davey, UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change to celebrate its success in receiving funding from the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) for research and development into innovative tidal technology. Davey was in Bristol to announce the next round of RGF funding, […]

  • Sumitomo subsidiary enters UK carbon storage sector

    17 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vision

    Carbon Catalyst has entered into an agreement with Summit Energy Evolution Limited (SEEL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, for the farmout of a 10% interest in a North Sea carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. Carbon Catalyst announced it had reached an agreement with SEEL to farmout a 10% working interest in the […]

  • Jobs Lost as X-Subsea UK Goes Under

    28 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Aberdeen-based subsea dredging and excavation specialist, X-Subsea UK Holding and its subsidiaries, have entered into Administration on April 27, 2015 following the collapse of wider Norwegian-based parent group. The company informed that Alexander Iain Fraser and Thomas Campbell MacLennan from FRP Advisory were appointed as Joint Administrators to X-Subsea UK Holding Ltd, X-Subsea UK Ltd and X-Subsea Atlantic […]

  • Milestone 2017 Keeps UK Offshore Wind on Track

    17 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    With 33 fully operational offshore wind farms and further eight under construction at the end of 2017, the offshore wind sector is on track to grow its contribution to the UK’s electricity supply to 10% by 2020, according to the Crown Estate.

  • Bayerngas UK Buys Centrica’s Stake in License P456

    9 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Bayerngas UK Ltd today announced it has agreed to purchase from Centrica Resources Ltd their 13% interest in UKCS License P456 containing the Babbage Gas Field. The Field is located in UKCS Block 42/2a in the Southern North Sea and came on-stream in 2010. Current production is from three wells. A second phase of drilling […]

  • Royal HaskoningDHV appoints new business chief for UK

    16 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    Global engineering and consulting firm, Royal HaskoningDHV, has named Alan Gerrett as Business Strategy Director in its UK operation.

  • UK: Sterling Contracts Rig for South Cladhan Drilling

    21 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    Sterling Resources Ltd. has hired the Transocean Sedco 704 semi-submersible drilling rig to drill an exploration well in the South Cladhan area in UK North Sea Block 210/29c. The rig is expected to arrive on location, east of Shetland Islands in March with the timing dependant on its current work program for Premier Oil. This […]

  • Plans for Subsea Cable Between UK and Denmark Announced

    23 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Danish and UK energy ministers discussed the development of a subsea cable between the countries as a project of major importance for renewable energy, Subsea UK reports. Denmark is considering the increase of links to foreign electricity markets as it prepares for the growing role of alternative solar and wind sources, according to Bloomberg. This […]

  • SMD Wins Subsea Company of the Year 2011 (UK)

    14 February 2011

      SMD is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the prestigious Subsea Company of the Year award at a ceremony in Aberdeen, by the industry body Subsea UK. The award, which recognises excellence in business achievement, was presented in front of more than 700 people from across the subsea sector at the Aberdeen […]

  • Swathe Services Becomes UK and Ireland Hypack Dealer

    31 May 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Swathe Services has become a Hypack dealer for UK and Ireland, the company informed. The company will now be able to offer Hypack hydrographic survey software to customers purchasing R2Sonic packages. The Hypack 2016 software can be used for tasks such as collecting hydrographic survey data or environmental data or for positioning a vessel in an engineering […]

  • UK Detains One Foreign Flagged Vessel in December

    19 January 2017

    Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has informed that one new vessel was detained in a UK port during December 2016 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection. Leo Trio, a 2,300 dwt singledecker, was detained on December 2 at Ipswich, with seven grounds for detention. The 1995-built ship is owned by Trio Denizcilik from Turkey, according […]

  • UK: GIB Seeks Energy Consultancy and Related Services

    2 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    The UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) is seeking to appoint a panel of appropriately qualified and experienced consultants and providers of technical and other specialist due diligence advice and advisory services to be available to assist GIB in connection with a range of specialist financing transactions in the UK. Beside the GIB, services are […]

  • Development of UK Well Capping Capability Moves Forward

    19 October 2010
    Equipment

    OSPRAG, the UK’s Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group, has agreed to move ahead to commissioning detailed designs for a full/partial pressure capping device which has the potential to become a key element of the UK offshore oil and gas industry’s oil spill response contingency plans. OSPRAG was set up in May to learn […]

  • Endeavour Announces UK Executive Retirement and Management Changes

    23 September 2010
    Business & Finance

    Endeavour International Corporation  announced that John G. Williams, executive vice president – exploration, will retire effective September 30, 2010. Since joining Endeavour in 2007, he has been a member of the company’s executive committee assigned to the company’s London office as head of exploration. He will continue his association with the company in a consulting […]

  • UK: SMD to Participate at Subsea Power Cables Conference

    5 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    SMD has announced its participation on this year’s Subsea Power Cables conference on the 25th and 26th of April at London’s Royal Garden Hotel. Paul Davison, SMD’s trenching business stream manager will be speaking on the advantages and disadvantages of technologies available for cable protection. Managing Director Mike Jones will be joining the panel to […]

  • MMT to Survey HVDC Link Between UK and Norway

    30 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Statnett SF and National Grid International Ltd have awarded MMT (Sweden) the marine survey contract for the NSN Seabed survey, a power transmission link between Norway and UK. Statnett and National Grid are jointly developing a project to construct a High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) electrical interconnector between Norway and Great Britain. MMT will be […]