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  • GDF Suez Awards Austen Field Concept Study Contracts (UK)

    5 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd has awarded a £1.4 million joint study to Xodus Group and Atkins for Concept Select work for the Austen (formerly Jacqui) field in the Central North Sea, with a further option to proceed into the Concept Definition phase. The studies will identify development and export options for the field. Aberdeen-based […]

  • UK Prime Minister: Offshore wind to power every home by 2030

    6 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Technology, Transition

    UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out commitments to ensure that offshore wind will produce more than enough electricity to power every home in the country by 2030, based on current electricity usage, boosting the government’s previous 30 GW target to 40 GW. The commitments, part of the Build Back Greener initiative, also include […]

  • UK-headquartered NDT inspections specialist eyes new markets

    25 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy

    UK-headquartered NDT inspections specialist TSC Subsea has revealed plans to expand to new markets in the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia. The strategic growth plans are said to follow on from one of TSC Subsea’s most successful years to date in which the company established new bases in Brazil and Australia, entered new sectors, […]

  • Sparrows amasses $39 million in revenues with UK contract renewals

    25 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    Sparrows Group has secured contract renewals worth an estimated £30 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2019.

  • Hafan Pwllheli Marina: Dredging Boosts Visitor Numbers (UK)

    8 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Major dredging works combined with fine summer weather has helped boost visitor numbers at Hafan Pwllheli marina in North Wales. In the last few months the marina has welcomed nearly 1000 boats from all over the UK and Europe. The final phase of the work to dredge the marina basin and main channel was completed […]

  • Public Support for UK Offshore Wind Reaches All-Time High

    26 April 2018
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    Official UK government statistics have shown that the public support for offshore wind is at its highest recorded level since the tracker began in 2012, reaching 83%. 

  • Boskalis Cable Fix Package for UK Offshore Transmission Owner

    17 August 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Storage

    Boskalis Subsea Cables & Flexibles – formerly VBMS – has signed a five-year subsea cable repair framework agreement with the UK Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO), Transmission Capital Partners (TCP).

  • Statoil farms into UK North Sea blocks. Drilling slated for 2017

    10 October 2016

    Jersey Oil & Gas, an oil and gas company ‎focused on the UK Continental Shelf , is set to complete a farm-out of its North Sea assets. The farm-out agreed with Norway’s Statoil in August is expected to be completed soon. “Following receipt of funds by all parties, which is expected imminently, JOG will have completed […]

  • Rosneft Marine UK Ltd Deploys New Bunker Tanker to Murmansk

    21 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    Rosneft Marine UK Ltd., a subsidiary of Russian state-owned oil company OJSC Rosneft, has introduced a new bunker delivery tanker to service the Port of Murmansk in Russia. The Russian-flagged RN Magellan is a 4622 deadweight tonne (dwt) bunker tanker built in 2007. The modern vessel is part of Rosneft Marine’s on-going strategy to replace […]

  • UK operators to produce 2.8 billion boe more than expected

    2 March 2018

    UK’s oil and gas production over the period 2016–2050 is now projected to total 11.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) according to new projections from the UK’s Oil and Gas Authority.

  • UK: Royal Navy Unveils the Size of Nation’s Future Flagship

    9 January 2013

    The team behind the Navy’s future flagships have produced a series of stunning posters to demonstrate the sheer scale of the carriers – including parking one on the Thames outside Parliament. To give the public an idea of the sense of scale of HMS Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales, they put one on the […]

  • First UK carbon storage licencing round opens for bids

    14 June 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Storage

    The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has launched the UK’s first-ever carbon storage licencing round, with 13 areas available for bids.   The areas being offered for licensing are off the coast of Aberdeen, Teesside, Liverpool and Lincolnshire in the Southern North Sea, Central North Sea, Northern North Sea, and East Irish Sea and are made […]

  • UK Marine Energy Council appoints big industry names to its board

    9 June 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Human Capital, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy

    The UK Marine Energy Council has appointed three new members to its board following the recent growth of the organization which acts as the representative body for the UK marine renewable energy industry.

  • 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 […]

  • 40 Students Shortlisted for SPE’s Europe Petro League (UK)

    6 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    Around 40 oil and gas students from across Europe have been shortlisted to take part in the inaugural Europe Petro League, a new competition launched by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section. Round one of the competition saw panellists from Shell, Schlumberger and Gaffney, Cline & Associates judge essays from 15 teams. The […]

  • UK: Ensco plc Announces Resolution for ENSCO 8502 Rig

    1 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    Ensco plc announces that a subsidiary of the Company has reached an agreement with Nexen Petroleum U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Nexen Inc. , regarding the drilling contract for ENSCO 8502, an ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Under the agreement, a special rate applies from 13 August 2010 until the […]

  • UK: EnerMech Expects to Have 1000 Employees by 2011 End

    29 June 2011
    Business & Finance

      Mechanical engineering group, EnerMech, is on a major recruitment drive as it forecasts its workforce will grow by one-third from 750 to 1000 by the end of 2011. The Aberdeen-based oil services company currently has 80 vacancies but is hoping to attract ex-military personnel and plans to open two new bases in England to […]

  • UK: Plymouth Dredging Causes Whitsand Bay Silt Concerns

    9 May 2010

    Divers have raised concerns about the effect of thousands of tonnes of dredged waste on the environment off the Cornish coast. [mappress] Source: bbc, May 9, 2010;

  • River Thames Maintenance Dredging Begins Next Week (UK)

    1 April 2011

    Special ‘swim lanes’ are to be created in the River Thames for fit commuters following the success of the capital’s ‘Boris bikes’, it was…   “Swimming to work is the next logical step.” By Nigel Vincent (thisislocallondon) [mappress] Source: thisislocallondon, April 1, 2011    

  • UK: Port of Southampton Development Plan Hits Legal Challenge

    22 November 2011

    Consent for an £80m upgrade of Southampton’s container port has been withdrawn for reassessment after legal action from its largest… (thisishampshire) [mappress] Source: thisishampshire, November 22, 2011

  • UK: Major Dredging Operation at Port of Tyne Under Way

    27 May 2011

    A major dredging operation is underway at the Port of Tyne to deepen the river to accommodate even bigger ships at the Port’s base at Rivers… (bdaily) [mappress] Source: bdaily, May 27, 2011;

  • UK: Flexlife Completes First Application of FlexGel in North Sea

    8 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Flexlife, an oil and gas industry specialist in subsea project and integrity management, has announced the successful first application of its innovative product FlexGel, in a North Sea operation for an oil major. FlexGel, an oil-based product that is non-soluble in water and with a density that can be adjusted depending on the application, was […]

  • Tank Testing Proves to be Good Solution for Seabed Equipment (UK)

    9 June 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    “How can you be sure your seabed equipment won’t be damaged by overtrawling? There’s only one sure way”, claims Martin East, Head of Analysis at Jee, “…and that’s by tank testing.” A recent project commissioned by Allseas drew Martin away from his office base and took him to Denmark where he could see his recommendations […]

  • Divers Provide Underwater Survey of Cornish Sea Life (UK)

    2 June 2011
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

      Marine experts have battled difficult underwater conditions in an inaccessible part of the Cornish coast to document hundreds of species… (thisiscornwall) [mappress] Source: thisiscornwall, June 02, 2011;  

  • Funding Provided for the World Register of Deep-Sea Species (UK)

    20 March 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The University of Southampton INDEEP Project (International Network for Scientific Investigation of Deep-Sea Ecosystems – funded by the Total Foundation) provided funding for the World Register of Deep-Sea Species, a new web portal which aims to bring together the most up-to-date taxonomy with a suite of identification tools (online keys, monographs and papers) recommended by […]