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  • UK: New Report Seeks Marine Energy Sector Boost

    22 August 2019
    Authorities & Government, Technology

    RenewableUK is urging the government to adopt key recommendations in a report published by the cross-party House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on reaching net zero emissions at the lowest cost for consumers. The new report, “Clean Growth: Technologies for meeting the UK’s emissions reduction targets”, notes that although onshore wind is low cost […]

  • UK Wave and Tidal Energy Parks Form Working Partnership

    28 February 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    RenewableUK welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Marine Energy Park and South West Marine Energy Park, which extends from Bristol to Cornwall. The MoU forms a working partnership that will result in increased collaboration and the sharing of innovative ideas between England and Scotland. Each of these […]

  • UK: Ashtead Technology to Launch New Electric Dredge Pump

    8 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Leading subsea equipment solutions specialist, Ashtead Technology, is to launch the subsea market’s smallest electric dredge pump this week at the Ocean Business 2013 exhibition in Southampton, UK. The pump will be available to rent exclusively from Ashtead Technology through an agreement with the manufacturer, Vortex International. The electric pump is targeted at the 2½” […]

  • LUX Assure Appoints Laurence Ormerod as New Chairman (UK)

    11 April 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    LUX Assure, a research and development company specialising in chemical monitoring technologies for the oil and gas industry, has appointed Laurence Ormerod as chairman further strengthening the firm’s focus on the global oil and gas sector. With 30 years experience in the oil and gas industry, Mr Ormerod has been a non-executive director with the […]

  • UK: Crown Estate Grants Lease for Seabed Near Lynmouth

    27 April 2012
    Authorities & Government

    Pulse Tidal, the Sheffield based tidal power provider, has been awarded an Agreement for Lease by the Crown Estate for an area of seabed near to Lynmouth in Devon. The company plans to deploy a 1.2MW tidal power generating machine – England’s largest – in 2014, following consultation, environmental studies and permitting.  Pulse chief executive […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Farm Attracts Japanese Power Houses

    13 August 2018
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    German energy company Innogy has agreed to sell a 41% stake in its 860MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK to Japan’s J-Power (25%) and Kansai Electric Power (16%).

  • Chevron’s Rosebank Offshore Project Enters FEED Phase (UK)

    9 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Chevron Corporation has entered front-end engineering and design (FEED) on the Rosebank oil and gas project in the West of Shetland region. “The Rosebank project is another important step forward in our strategy to grow profitably in core areas of our upstream business,” said George Kirkland, Chevron’s vice chairman. “Chevron has extensive deepwater capabilities, and […]

  • Acta Marine’s ‘Coastal Vanguard’ Supporting Cable Laying in UK

    28 August 2013
    Operations & Maintenance

    Acta Marine’s Shoalbusters are currently actively deployed in various Regions of the World. Several Maritime & Offshore construction projects have called upon the specialized Shallow draft fleet of Acta Marine. In Asia the Coastal Victory is engaged upon offshore support activities with a shallow draft pipe lay vessel in Korea and Taiwan. This unique 50TBP […]

  • Three low-carbon projects get funding from UK

    17 March 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Norwegian oil and gas major Equinor has secured public financing from the UK authorities for three of its low carbon projects in the north-east of England.

  • UK: Conservatives show vast support for Swansea tidal lagoon

    16 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Research released today shows overwhelming backing for the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon among Conservative MPs and Councillors, with more than four in five saying they support the project.

  • Cuadrilla gets permit for UK’s first shale fracking project

    25 July 2018

    Lancashire-headquartered Cuadrilla has received final hydraulic fracture consent from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for its first horizontal shale gas exploration well at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire.

  • Specialist Welding Trials Completed at National Hyperbaric Centre, UK

    7 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    A group of divers have completed specialist coded welding trials at a leading North-east oil and gas industry support and training facility to prepare them for work in the Norwegian sector. The Aberdeen-based National Hyperbaric Centre (NHC), is the world’s foremost hyperbaric welding trials and training complex, and 42 divers from a major oil and […]

  • UK Government Go-Ahead for Fifth and Sixth Astute Submarines

    29 March 2010

    BAE Systems today welcomed news it had been given the go-ahead to begin constructing the fifth Astute class submarine and start the procurement process for a sixth vessel. It follows a statement made earlier today by UK Secretary of State for Defence, Bob Ainsworth, in which he underlined the Government’s continuing support for the Astute […]

  • Archer’s New Aberdeen Base to Create 220 Jobs (UK)

    3 May 2013

    Archer, the global oilfield service provider, has commenced construction of a new 70,000 square foot base at Blackburn, Aberdeen in response to company expansion and recruitment requirements. The new facility will house over 170 employees who will relocate from the company’s four existing bases in Dyce and in Echt, near Westhill. Due to an increase […]

  • UK Armed Guards Look Vulnerable to Emerging Nations’ Prices

    17 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    As regulation slowly and painfully filters down the private maritime security industry, a “proliferation” of new firms from emerging countries is inevitable and British PMSCs will price themselves out of the market, according to Norton Rose partner Philip Roche. The big question, Mr Roche said, is whether shipping companies and charterers will want to continue […]

  • NorSea Group adds Finance Director to its UK team

    20 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    NorSea Group has appointed Karen Russell as its first UK Finance Director, thus adding the third executive to its team in Scotland. Russell joins Managing Director Walter Robertson and Operations Director Mike Munro in the new team leading the company’s expansion in the UK. NorSea noted that Russell has more than 13 years’ experience in the oil and […]

  • RBS Spearheads Refinancing Program for Peel Ports Group (UK)

    12 June 2013

    Fresh jobs and opportunities will soon be dropping anchor in the Merseyside area thanks to RBS’s recent work spearheading a refinancing programme for Peel Ports Group, one of the UK’s biggest port operators. Megan Pickering from nearby Runcorn is one of a wave of new engineering apprentices who will benefit from the development of Liverpool2, […]

  • Forewind Hands Dogger Bank Core Samples to NGR (UK)

    8 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Forewind, a consortium of four energy companies – RWE, SSE, Statkraft and Statoil, is donating all the core samples collected on Dogger Bank to a national science facility. The core samples, cylindrical soil sections extracted from the seabed, will be entrusted to the National Geological Repository (NGR), located at the British Geological Survey headquarters in […]

  • UK: Premier Oil plc Nears 75,000 boepd Target

    16 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    Premier’s 2010 Preliminary Results will be announced on Thursday 24th March 2011. A Trading and Operations Update is planned for Thursday 13th January 2011. HIGHLIGHTS * 2010 production guidance maintained at around 44 kboepd (2009: 44kboepd); we reiterate our targets of 75 kboepd in 2012 rising thereafter to 100 kboepd from existing reserves and resources […]

  • Salvage & Marine Operations Announces Tender for ROV Services (UK)

    11 March 2011
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

      Salvage & Marine Operations promotes tender for ROV services in the Bath area of  UK. The Ministry of Defence has a requirement to recover debris from the seabed following an equipment trial. A DP2 ROV support vessel fitted with a work class ROV and crane (capacity 5t) capable of working in water depth up […]

  • UK: Subsea 7 Wins Cheviot Field SURF Contract

    30 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Subsea 7 S.A.  announced today the award of a SURF contract valued at approximately $175 million from ATP Oil & Gas (UK) Limited/Bluewater, the operator on the Cheviot Field, situated 120km East of Shetland. The Cheviot Field development will use a moored floating process facility which will import oil and gas from four satellite drill […]

  • UK: BMT Analyses Stingray’s New Seismic Sensing System

    12 January 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    BMT Reliability Consultants Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, the leading international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, has announced its latest project with Stingray Geophysical Ltd, a TGS company. This partnership saw BMT provide critical analysis and reliability assessments during the development of the wet-end array of Stingray’s innovative fibre-optic Fosar® seabed […]

  • Harland and Wolff Receives OWF Jacket Design Contract (UK)

    27 March 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Energy company E.ON has awarded the contract for design and fabrication of the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm substation jacket to Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries Limited. E.ON, one of the UK’s leading power and gas companies, is developing the 219MW offshore wind farm, located 8km off the East Yorkshire coast, just north of the […]

  • Claxton Names New VP Sales, Marketing and Commercial (UK)

    18 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Claxton Engineering Services Ltd, an Acteon company, has appointed Gerry Miller as vice president sales, marketing and commercial in a drive to strengthen its sales, marketing and commercial team. His base will be at Claxton’s headquarters in Great Yarmouth, UK. Ongoing international expansion has seen Claxton’s commercial team grow significantly, and it is now operating […]

  • UK: Marineco Acquires Fourth Twin Axe Support Vessel

    25 March 2013

    The ‘Marineco Thunderbird’ is UK based Marineco’s fourth FCS 2610 Twin Axe. Marineco was the first customer to buy one of these vessels nearly two and a half years ago, based on a design for an Offshore and Offshore Wind support vessel which Damen really believed in. The recent purchase of Thunderbird is proof of […]