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  • Faroe Petroleum Acquires Remaining Interest in Lowlander Discovery (UK)

    14 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces that it has acquired the remaining 50 per cent interest in the Lowlander oil discovery in the UK Central North Sea, such that the Company will own the entire […]

  • Mechanical Issues Shut Production from Breagh Field (UK)

    13 November 2013

    Sterling Resources Ltd. announces that the operator of the Breagh gas field, RWE Dea, has advised that production has been temporarily shut-in in order to resolve a number of mechanical issues.   The mechanical issues requiring repair have occurred subsequent to field start at the inlet area of the Teesside Gas Processing Plant (TGPP). These issues were experienced during routine pigging […]

  • UK: HiDef Achieves 99 Pct Bird Identification Success

    30 September 2013
    Environment

    Following a major investment, HiDef aerial surveying can now provide developers with bird identification rates of up to 99%. Average ID rates across all surveys in past 12 months are over 95%. This success has been achieved through new camera technology and the creation of HiDef’s own in house team of 25 leading UK ornithologists. […]

  • UK: Farstad Shipping Ltd. Acquires Seabed Viking PSV

    15 July 2010

    Farstad Shipping Ltd., a wholly owned UK subsidiary of Farstad Shipping, has entered into an agreement to buy the platform supply vessel Seabed Viking. The vessel is a Havyard 832 CD (4000 DWT) built at Fjellstrand AS and delivered in February 2010. The vessel is a modern and environmentally friendly medium sized PSV suitable for […]

  • UK: Surrey Company Fined Over Bulldozer Driver Death

    15 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    A Surrey company has been sentenced for safety failings after a contractor was crushed to death at the London Gateway Port construction site in Essex. Robert Noel Mayne, known as Noel, 59, from Tichfield in Hampshire, died as he and colleagues tried to retrieve a bulldozer that was bogged down in mud at the Stanford-le-Hope […]

  • 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 […]

  • EMU to Exhibit at Renewable UK Global Offshore Wind 2012

    18 May 2012

    EMU Limited will be exhibiting at the Renewable UK Global Offshore Wind exhibition in London on 13th and 14th of June 2012, at stand 263.  The company is a marine consultancy, survey and laboratory testing specialist which provides worldwide services in support of infrastructure planning, consenting and development, environmental protection and resource and facilities management. It supplies services to […]

  • UK: Sima Charters Orders Second Truk 20T Catamaran

    25 June 2013

    Ruud Lievaart, owner of Netherlands-based Sima Charters, has inked the agreement for a second CTruk 20T multi-purpose catamaran during Seawork International in Southampton this week. For CTruk this important signing means that every client it works with has taken a second CTruk vessel. The new 18.5m composite workboat, to be named SC Falcon, is expected […]

  • RFA Lyme Bay Arrives at A&P Falmouth Yard (UK)

    29 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    RFA Lyme Bay, the fifth ship to have a multi-million pound refit as part of the Cluster contract at A&P Falmouth, has arrived in the port for work to begin. She returned to Falmouth after three years in the Gulf supporting coalition operations. The major refits, carried out every five years, have been completed on […]

  • UK: IBERDROLA Chairman Calls for Single European Energy Regulator

    19 September 2012

    IBERDROLA chairman Ignacio Galan called for the creation of a single regulator for the European energy sector as part of speeding up moves towards a common energy policy and a European energy market. Speaking at the opening of the FT Global Energy Leaders Summit 2012 in London, Galan said that to achieve a common market […]

  • UK: Ithaca’s Stella field start-up expected in November

    6 October 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Ithaca Energy’s Stella field in the UK North Sea is still expected to start production in November 2016. Providing an operational update Ithaca on Thursday said that the hook-up and commissioning operations of the production facility FPF-1 were progressing to plan. To remind, the FPF-1 set sail from a yard in Poland in August, and […]

  • Harbour Energy hires Havila vessel for ops offshore UK

    27 December 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Havila Shipping has secured a new contract for one of its platform supply vessels (PSVs) with Harbour Energy for operations in the UK.

  • UK: South Boats IOW Receives Order for Two WFSVs

    3 April 2013

    South Boats IOW Ltd. and Seacat Services Ltd., both of the Isle of Wight, UK announced a two boat order for the construction of a further pair of South Catamaran 24m offshore wind farm crew transfer vessels. These new vessels will be built by South Boats IOW at their Cowes facility and will be delivered […]

  • UK launches competition to bring electrification a step closer to reality

    23 September 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Exploration & Production, Innovation, Transition

    UK’s oil and gas regulator has launched a decarbonisation competition for the electrification of offshore oil and gas installations.

  • Corallian’s Wick well off UK comes up dry

    16 January 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Corallian Energy has failed to find hydrocarbons at its Wick exploration well located off the UK.

  • MCA Plays Important Role in UK’s Offshore Wind Industry

    26 April 2011

    Quietly operating in the background, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) plays an important role in the UK’s offshore wind industry. As an executive agency of the UK government’s Department for Transport, it is involved in the consents process and safety of navigation, and as HM Coastguard in liaison for search and rescue. In addition, […]

  • UK: Tyne and Wear Marine Conducts Survey with Tritech’s StarFish

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

    Subsea UK reports that Tyne and Wear Marine (TWM) Ltd., a marine and engineering company, used Tritech’s StarFish 990F for the dock wall survey on the Tyne River, Newcastle. The technology was used during port survey and inspection project, and has the latest in advanced CHIRP (Compressed High Intensity Radar Pulse) acoustic technology and digital-signal-processing […]

  • Polarcus Naila Finalizes 3D Seismic Program for TGS in UK

    20 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Polarcus Naila has continued to deliver superior performance since her propulsion upgrade in April this year. The modern 3D seismic vessel has recently completed a two month program for TGS-NOPEC towing a large 12 streamer spread offshore of the UK Shetland Islands. This complex program comprised two individual surveys, each employing a variable depth streamer […]

  • Industry Backs New UK East Coast Training Centre

    18 May 2018
    Human Capital

    A group of UK-based companies has launched a training centre to provide a skilled workforce for wind farms located offshore the UK east coast, with developers, operators and supply chain companies supporting the training places.

  • UK: Safety Technology Reaches New Heights with GWO Approval

    13 January 2013

    Safety Technology Ltd announced they have been awarded GWO accreditation for a multitude of safety courses for working on wind farms worldwide. The first in the UK to be audited by industry standard setters RenewableUK for the following modules of the GWO Basic Safety Training; Work at Height, Manual Handling and First Aid. Safety Technology […]

  • Split Opinion Regarding UK Offshore Wind Finance Gap

    15 June 2012

    The so-called finance gap could be a drag on UK offshore wind deployment, according to a poll conducted at the RenewableUK Global Offshore Wind 2012 Conference in London. The survey, which was conducted by global renewable energy consultant GL Garrad Hassan, revealed that 59% of participants thought that it will have a detrimental effect on […]

  • UK: SMD Wins Prestigious Award for its ROV Design

    21 April 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

      SMD has been honoured with the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the innovation category for the design and manufacturer of Work Class Remotely Operated Vehicles (WROVS). The company, based in Wallsend near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of remote invention equipment, which operates in hazardous environments across the globe. Each […]

  • UK reviewing offshore transmission regime, seeks industry’s input

    25 August 2020
    Authorities & Government, Rules & Regulation

    The UK government has initiated a review of the country’s offshore transmission regime, as it is looking to tweak the existing regime to allow for significantly more offshore wind to be added to the UK’s energy mix in the future. The government, with input from the industry, will look into the way that the offshore […]

  • UK Wind Farms Construction Could Impact Harbour Seals

    20 May 2015

    Offshore wind turbine installation could damage the hearing of UK harbour seals, University of St. Andrews researchers said. The team of scientists used GPS data loggers on 24 harbour seals during the installation of offshore wind turbines in the Wash in 2012. The data loggers collected information on the seals’ locations and their diving behaviour. […]

  • Ceona Hires GC Rieber’s Newbuild Subsea Vessel, UK

    8 March 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    GC Rieber Shipping ASA has entered into a charter agreement with Ceona Services (UK) Limited (“Ceona”) for its high capacity subsea newbuild for a fixed period of 5 years, with options for up to five years. The vessel will commence working for Ceona immediately upon delivery from Ulstein Verft in the first quarter of 2014. […]