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  • UK Chooses Preferred Bidder for New Polar Research Ship

    12 October 2015
    Research & Development

    UK government has announced that Cammell Laird in Birkenhead has been selected as the preferred bidder to build a £200m polar research ship. The decision follows a 12-month competitive tender process that involved bids from companies in the UK, Europe and the Far East. The winning project will secure jobs and apprenticeships and provide a significant […]

  • UK: Forewind Spends Nearly GBP 45 Million on Offshore Surveys

    5 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development

    The latest seabed survey contract award by Forewind means the consortium’s spend on offshore surveys, primarily carried out by UK contractors, is almost £45 million. Since being awarded the rights to develop Dogger Bank in January 2010, Forewind has undertaken a huge range of geotechnical, geophysical and fish ecology surveys to understand and characterise the […]

  • UK: Northern Offshore Ltd. Receives Contract for Energy Enhancer Jackup

    22 April 2010
    Business & Finance

    Northern Offshore UK, a subsidiary of Northern Offshore, which is engaged in the provision of offshore contract drilling equipment and operating services for offshore oil and gas operators, has received a contract from Perenco UK, for the jackup Energy Enhancer. The contract is for a one-well program on Perenco’s Inde Field in the UK Southern […]

  • EU awards €9M for wave and tidal research in UK and Ireland

    24 July 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    Queen’s University Belfast has secured over €9.3 million from the EU’s Interreg VA Programme to create a ‘virtual center of competence’ that will support cross-border research into wave and tidal energy in UK and Ireland.

  • Oil & Gas UK: Explorers still see UKCS as prospective territory

    28 July 2015

    The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), the UK oil and gas regulator, yesterday awarded 41 new offshore oil and gas exploration licences as part of UK’s 28th Offshore Licencing Round. Oil & Gas UK, representative body for the UK Offshore oil and gas industry, has welcomed the awards.  The 41 new licences were awarded in addition to to the 134 […]

  • Energy Assets Acquires Gazprom Global Energy Solutions, UK

    12 October 2012

    Energy Assets, the largest independent provider of gas metering services to the UK Industrial and Commercial market, announced that it has reached agreement with Gazprom Marketing & Trading Ltd to acquire its wholly owned subsidiary, Gazprom Global Energy Solutions Limited. Energy Assets acquired Gazprom Global Energy Solutions for an enterprise value of £13.5m, which includes […]

  • UK: Reef Subsea Charters Newbuilt Subsea Construction Vessel

    15 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Reef Subsea today announced they have signed a five year plus options charter for a new built dynamically positioned subsea construction vessel from Olympic Shipping AS in Norway. The vessel, to be named ”Olympic Reef”, built by Kleven Maritime in Norway, is to be delivered in August 2013. The vessel will be of type MT […]

  • UK: Gardline Inks Charter Contract with Red7Marine for DP Reel

    10 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    Gardline Geosciences Limited announced that it has signed a contract with Red7Marine for the long term charter of the 91 m, DP2 vessel DP Reel. The addition of the DP Reel increases Gardline’s geotechnical fleet to 7 units, of which 3 are based in European waters. This vessel will undertake borehole, seabed sampling and cone […]

  • UK: IMO Committee Approves Guidelines on Dealing with Crimes on Ships

    22 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Draft guidelines on the preservation and collection of evidence following an allegation of a serious crime having taken place on board a ship, or following a report of a missing person from a ship, and on pastoral and medical care of victims were approved by the Legal Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), when […]

  • Penspen Launches New Integrity Management Systems Business (UK)

    25 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Owing to a growing portfolio of work in the field of Integrity Management Systems (IMS), Penspen is pleased to announce the launch of a specialised IMS business division within its Integrity stream. IMS offer an integrated approach to the proactive management of assets be they pipelines, terminals, pump stations or more complex facilities, throughout an […]

  • Dragon LNG Terminal to Get Cargo February 3 (UK)

    27 January 2011

    The Methane Lydon Volney LNG carrier, with a capacity of 145,000 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK’s Dragon terminal February 3, according to the Milford Haven Port Authority website. BG and Petronas between them have contracted for the full capacity at Dragon LNG’s Milford Haven site over the next 20 years. BG […]

  • UK: Dragon LNG Terminal to Get Cargo March 10

    3 March 2011

      The LNG Ondo liquefied natural gas carrier, with a capacity of 148,478 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK’s Dragon terminal March 10, according to the Milford Haven Port Authority website. BG and Petronas between them have contracted for the full capacity at Dragon LNG’s Milford Haven site over the next 20 […]

  • Endeavour Awarded 7 New Licenses in UK North Sea

    29 October 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Endeavour International Corporation announced that the company has been awarded 7 new licenses, covering ten exploration blocks in the U.K. North Sea. The blocks, awarded in the 27th Licensing Round conducted by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), are located around Endeavour’s core operating areas. Endeavour will be the operator of these blocks. […]

  • IMO Council Endorses Evolutionary Sub-Committee Restructuring (UK)

    15 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    The IMO Council, meeting for its 109th session in London has endorsed, in principle, a restructuring of IMO’s Sub-Committees, in order to better address the technical and operational issues covered by IMO regulations, as part of a review and reform process initiated by Secretary-General Mr. Koji Sekimizu aimed at ensuring the Organization meets current challenges […]

  • Blue Ocean Monitoring Sets Up Office in UK and USA

    31 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Australia’s Blue Ocean Monitoring, an operator of autonomous ocean data collection platforms for oil & gas and environmental applications, has opened offices in the United Kingdom and the USA. The United Kingdom office is headed by Keith Wallace who has been appointed General Manager – Europe & the Middle East. The Houston, USA office is headed by […]

  • UK: Rosyth Could House Offshore Wind Turbines Manufacturing

    7 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Scarborough Muir, a joint venture between Scarborough Group and Muir Group, plans to redevelop the former Rosyth naval base and turn it into offshore wind turbine manufacturing and servicing site. According to The Herald Scotland, realization of this plan could attract GBP 500 million of investment and create 3,500 working positions. The plan for a […]

  • UK: Bibby Offshore Opens Project Engineering Centre in Liverpool

    21 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Aberdeen-based subsea installation contractor Bibby Offshore has opened a project engineering centre in Liverpool and employed five subsea engineers to remotely support its core business in Aberdeen. The decision to develop this innovative approach to the resource shortage in the Aberdeen region is due to the rising demand for its services from its clients. Bibby […]

  • Dundee Well Placed to Grab Big Share of Renewables (UK)

    12 October 2011

    Dundee is well-placed to grab a big share of the renewables manufacturing opportunities and has all the facilities that are required by…   (dundeesnp) [mappress] Source: dundeesnp, October 12, 2011

  • UK: Tyne dredger guide captain ‘ over limit’ – court

    6 November 2009
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    A SEA captain was today accused of being drunk as he guided a massive dredger up the Tyne ahead of work on the second Tyne Tunnel… Source: Jarrow & Hebburn Gazette, November 5, 2009;

  • UK: Public Exhibition for 196 Meter High Wind Turbine

    14 March 2012

    A public exhibition on plans for a wind turbine stretching to 196 meters in height is scheduled to take place tomorrow at Bayview football stadium between 3pm-7pm, reports Fife Today. Scottish Enterprise is going to submit a planning application to build a single offshore prototype wind turbine at the Fife Energy Park in Methil, for […]

  • Apache Bacchus Field Pays Out, Official Says (UK)

    1 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Apache Corporation said today that the third well in the Bacchus Field in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea has pushed field production past 17,600 barrels of oil per day. Apache has a 50 percent interest in the field. The Bacchus B-1 development well, which commenced production in July, currently is producing 9,400 […]

  • Borehole Survey to Be Carried Out for Dogger Bank Teesside (UK)

    12 April 2013
    Research & Development, Storage

    An onshore geotechnical survey near the proposed landfall location for the Dogger Bank Teesside export cables, between Redcar and Marske-by-the-Sea, will be carried out next week (starting Tuesday, April 16). Specialist contractor VolkerInfra will drill a number of boreholes in total as part of the work, up to two near the Network Rail railway line […]

  • Fraiha to Arrive at Dragon LNG Terminal January 14 (UK)

    7 January 2011
    Vessels

    The Fraiha LNG carrier, with a capacity of 210,152 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK’s Dragon terminal January 14, according to the Milford Haven Port Authority website. BG and Petronas between them have contracted for the full capacity at Dragon LNG’s Milford Haven site over the next 20 years. BG Group owns […]

  • Shetland Coastguard Finds Lost Oceanographic Data Buoy (UK)

    12 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      A large oceanographic data buoy from Newfoundland has been found off Shetland after it went missing during Hurricane Igor in September 2010. Shetland Coastguard was contacted by the stand by vessel Grampian Frontier reporting that they had recovered the large yellow one tonne bouy which had floated into the 500 metre exclusion zone around […]

  • UK: DIO, Environment Agency Repair Sea Defences at Hythe

    20 March 2014

    Over the Christmas and New Year break, Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) staff from the Cinque Ports Training Area (CPTA) in Kent battled the high tides and gale-force winds that threatened the sea defences at both Lydd and Hythe ranges. DIO surveyors alerted the Environment Agency to flooding danger posed by a breach in sea defences […]