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  • Neftex Expands Its Team in Response to Turnover Rise (UK)

    30 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Neftex, a dynamic earth science research company serving the international resources industries (principally oil, gas and minerals), has reported a rise of more than 30% in turnover, with an increase from under £7million in 2011 to more than £9million in October 2012. Against this background of business growth, Neftex has recruited 26 staff in the […]

  • ‘HMS Protector’ Survey Vessel Prepares for Maiden Mission (UK)

    2 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      Looking more like one of Her Majesty’s Ships by the day – and less like an oil rig support vessel – is new Antarctic survey vessel HMS Protector, which has spent the summer being readied for her inaugural deployment. The Portsmouth-based ship now boasts miniguns (Gatling guns) and General Purpose Machine-Guns to protect herself, […]

  • Renewables Growth Prompts Return of Humber Business Conference to UK

    7 July 2011
    Human Capital, Research & Development

      A second major business conference focusing on the Humber’s renewable energy industry is being staged to meet growing demand for information on the rapidly-expanding market. Organisers say the latest event will see companies being urged to act now, to seize the opportunities available as the region becomes the UK’s capital of green power, including […]

  • UK: Hydratight, PDA Offer Specialized Courses to Industrial Divers

    23 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Hydratight has formed a strategic partnership with one of the world’s leading commercial diver training schools.  Hydratight and the UK-based Professional Diving Academy will collaborate on specialist courses aimed at improving both subsea joint integrity and skills, as well as diver safety. The partnership aims to fill a gap in the current training provision for […]

  • Three new board members join Oil & Gas UK

    24 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    Oil & Gas UK, a trade association for the UK offshore oil and gas industry, has added three more members to its board of directors.

  • UK: Able Marine Energy Park Decision Pushed Back

    29 July 2013
    Authorities & Government

    A Government Minister has set a new deadline for a decision on plans for the £450million Able Marine Energy Park on the South Bank of the Humber. The original date for a Government decision on the Able Marine Energy Park was May 24th, but this was then moved forward to July 24th. Now the Transport […]

  • UK: Ithaca Energy Agrees to Take Over Carna Operatorship

    26 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Ithaca Energy Inc. has agreed to take over operatorship and increase its working interest in the Carna discovery, located in the Southern Gas Basin of the UK North Sea. The transaction with Centrica North Sea Gas Limite increases the Company’s working interest in the Carna discovery to a material level from 16% to 32%. The […]

  • UK: EMU’s Geotechnical Department Expands its Services

    23 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    EMU’s Geotechnical department has expanded its services and now boasts the latest, class leading, marine soil investigation equipment. This includes three and six metre variable frequency vibrocores, Datem Neptune 5000 heavyweight CPT, gravity and piston corers and a number of various sediment sampling grabs. EMU’s continued investment in equipment, as well as commitment to research […]

  • SIGTTO Issues New LNG STS Guidelines (UK)

    2 May 2011

      SIGTTO’s new LNG Ship to Ship Transfer Guidelines have been published by Seamanship Witherby. Ship-to-ship transfers of LNG have become increasingly commonplace in recent years, following the first commercial operation of this type in February 2007. There are now 10 LNG regasification vessels (LNGRVs) in service and these and other ships are often provided […]

  • Houlder Turbine Access System Set for Action (UK)

    30 November 2011
    Technology

    Employee owned marine engineering company, Houlder has announced its award winning Turbine Access System (TAS), fabricated at MKW Engineering, has been successfully Load Tested in the presence of Lloyds Register. The TAS, developed with BMT Nigel Gee, is designed to provide safe and reliable access for personnel between typical workboats and offshore wind turbine structures. […]

  • UK: Carnegie Completes Bermuda Wave Study for CETO

    11 May 2012
    Research & Development

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited announces the completion of a year-long Bermuda wave study that demonstrates the viability of the Island’s wave regime for a commercial CETO wave energy project. Over the past 12 months, Carnegie, in collaboration with Bermudian company Triton Renewable Energy Ltd, and with the technical support of the Ground […]

  • Expro Announces Major New Investment Programme (UK)

    20 June 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      Expro announces a major new investment programme that will reinforce the group’s leading position as a supplier of innovative technology and specialist services to the upstream oil and gas sector. The programme includes expanding the group’s established fleet of Subsea Safety Tools and Well Test Packages, augmented by the globalisation of the group’s strong […]

  • Ofgem Annouces Tender for Offshore Transmission Assets (UK)

    12 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Building on an already established regime for the awarding of offshore transmission licences in which over £2 billion of assets have been tendered for, Ofgem is now running a further tender competition for the transmission assets that connect the West of Duddon Sands wind farm to the onshore grid. The transmission assets are being constructed […]

  • Shell UK to Remove Oil from Gannet Pipeline

    16 August 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Secretary of State’s Representative for Maritime Salvage and Intervention has approved Shell UK’s plans to remove oil contained in the Gannet pipeline. The operation will recover the majority of the oil remaining in the carrier pipe, at a water depth of 91m (300ft), following an oil leak from the pipeline that was successfully stopped […]

  • SPE highlights importance of offshore risk management (UK)

    31 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Former Subsea 7 Global Insurance Director, Robert Armstrong, will present on the topic of “Contractual Risk Management from an Insurance Perspective” at a Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen event next week. Armstrong will discuss the role of insurance within the overall risk management strategy of oil & gas companies, and identify areas where this […]

  • Planning Application Submitted for Atlantic Array OWF, UK

    18 June 2013

    An application for the Atlantic Array offshore wind farm was received by the UK’s National Planning Inspectorate from Channel Energy Limited on Friday, 14 June. In the next 28 days, the Planning Inspectorate will review the application and decide whether or not to accept it. This decision should be made by 12 July. In March, […]

  • UK: Aegir Wave Power to Hold Public Consultations

    18 November 2012

    Aegir Wave Power, developers of the wave farm project off the south west of Shetland mainland, will be holding public drop-in sessions in Bigton, Scalloway and Hamnavoe (Burra Isle) from 26th–28th November 2012. The purpose of the information events are to update members of the public on project activities to date, and plans for future […]

  • Oil & Gas UK Boss: We Are Not Drilling Enough Wells

    30 January 2014

    Deloitte earlier this week issued a report in which it said only 47 exploration and appraisal wells were drilled on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) in 2013, compared with 65 in 2012 Malcolm Webb, chief executive of Oil & Gas UK, an organisation representing the UK offshore oil and gas industry, said that the report by […]

  • Walney Extension Lifts UK Wind Capacity Past 20GW

    17 September 2018

    The UK has reached over 20 gigawatts (GW) of wind generation capacity following this month’s opening of Ørsted’s 659MW Walney Extension wind farm off the coast of Cumbria, RenewableUK said. Total operational capacity of onshore and offshore wind in the UK currently stands at 20,128MW, which is enough to meet the annual power needs of […]

  • UK DECC Approves Breagh Gas Field Development Plan

    25 July 2011
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Sterling Resources Ltd. (“Sterling” or the “Company”) announces that the Field Development Plan (“FDP”) for the Breagh gas field has received the unconditional approval of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (“DECC”). FDP approval from DECC was formally granted at a ceremony that took place at RWE Dea UK’s London office earlier today, […]

  • Cabling Work Begins at West of Duddon Sands OWF (UK)

    23 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    A rock placement vessel ‘Seahorse’ is now at the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm site and will start to lay rocks as a scour protection around all of the turbine bases. ‘Maersk Responder’ is currently in Liverpool for mobilisation and can be expected to arrive on site early next week to carry out […]

  • GAC Inks Contract to Serve Bibby Offshore UK Fleet

    5 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Bibby Offshore UK Ltd has signed a non-exclusive ship agency services contract with GAC covering all ports in the UK and making the Group their first choice of provider elsewhere worldwide. GAC staff attending the first Bibby port call in AberdeenAberdeen-based Bibby Offshore UK Ltd is a subsidiary of the Bibby Line Group, providing solutions […]

  • CMA CGM MARCO POLO Joins UK Ship Register

    11 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    The CMA CGM MARCO POLO its the first in a series of three new 16,000 TEU container ships, for the CMA CGM group on the Asia-Europe lines. Built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd, it is almost a quarter of a mile long and it is the worlds biggest container ship. The new […]

  • Faroe Petrolem Strikes Oil at Fulla Prospect, Offshore UK

    24 August 2011
    Business & Finance

    Faroe Petroleum plc announces an oil discovery in its first operated exploration well on the Fulla prospect in the west of Shetland (Faroe Petroleum 50% and operator). Highlights The 206/5a-3 exploration well discovers oil in the Fulla prospect The well penetrated a gross oil column in the well of 133 feet and a net oil […]

  • UK: River Severn Tidal Barrage Could Face Delay

    5 November 2012

    Plans to construct a tidal barrage across the River Severn could be delayed if the UK government doesn’t approve this project within next three years, reports BBC. Prof Brian Morgan, a member of Hafren’s regional board, said any delays could risk it “going into the long grass”. The company, Hafren Power, which is planning to […]