1001 results found for 'western isles'

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  • Cosco Nantong Delays FPSO Delivery

    23 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Cosco Corporation’s subsidiary COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard Co. is going to delay the delivery of a Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) ordered in 2012, the company informed. Cosco said that the move was agreed due to changes in technical requirements from the undiclosed European shipowner. The contract details, however, correspond to Dana Petroleum’s order at […]

  • Invergordon cruising to busy day

    16 August 2006

    A former car ferry used by the Queen on a cruise of the Western Isles is one of three passenger ships to stop off at Invergordon on Thursday. The visits of the Hebridean Princess, Golden Princess and Vistamar will give the Cromarty Firth port its busiest day of its cruise liner season. Passengers include 2,600 […]

  • Top News of the Week May 27 – June 1, 2013

    2 June 2013

    Top News of the Week May 27- June 1, 2013

  • Dana Petroleum extends integrity services deal for UK FPSO tandem

    1 July 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, IT & Software, Technology

    Technology and data intelligence specialist Imrandd has secured a two-year contract extension with Dana Petroleum for the provision of integrity services for all of its UK operated assets.

  • Red Light for £709M Shetland Subsea Link

    23 October 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Energy regulator for Great Britain Ofgem said it is unable to approve a proposal by Scottish and Southern Energy Networks (SSEN) to build a 600MW subsea electricity transmission link from Shetland to mainland Scotland. For Shetland, the cable would connect planned wind farm projects on Shetland with mainland Scotland allowing them to export electricity to […]

  • Norwegian player carves away FPSO segment from renewables business

    22 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Magnora is setting apart its FPSO segment from the renewables business, splitting them apart due to the considerable growth in profits from renewables.

  • Wave Farm to Create Hundreds of Jobs (UK)

    21 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Aquamarine Power’s proposed wave farm on the Western Isles could create hundreds of long-term skilled jobs in one of Britain’s most remote communities, according to figures published today. The Edinburgh firm’s 40MW Lewis wave farm – which was fully consented by the Scottish Government earlier this year – could generate between 98 and 200 jobs […]

  • ABPmer Launches Renewables Channel (UK)

    16 June 2011

    ABPmer announces a new phase in the dissemination of marine renewable resource mapping tools for wind, wave and tidal developers with the launch of the Renewables Channel on WEBvision, their online spatial information sharing platform. The Renewables Channel allows browsers to interrogate the recently developed Western Isles and Northern Ireland (WINI) numerical model, which provides […]

  • Harland & Wolff’s Arnish facility wins its first contract

    19 October 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Harland & Wolff, owned by InfraStrata, has secured the first contract for its Arnish facility located in the Western Isles, Scotland.

  • FPSO staying in Scotland’s Orkney Islands for revamp ahead of redeployment to UK firm’s flagship North Sea oil project

    25 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Ports & Logistics, Transition

    A 2017-built FPSO, destined to work on a redevelopment project in the North Sea, will spend up to a year in Scapa Flow, according to Orkney Harbour Authority.

  • 2017-built FPSO picked for redeployment at North Sea oil project

    17 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Jersey Oil & Gas and NEO Energy have chosen an FPSO for work on their oil development project on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).

  • PGS wraps up East Shetland Basin seismic survey

    27 May 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    PGS has completed the acquisition of the East Shetland Basin 2020 survey utilising Ramform Tethys vessel. The first results of the survey will be available in August. Despite the ongoing challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, crew changes were carried out safely and efficiently, PGS said. Both the exclusion zones of the Western Isles FPSO […]

  • BiFab Gets a Lifeline as Canadians Take Majority Share

    17 April 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Canadian company JV Driver, through its subsidiary DF Barnes, has acquired BiFab as part of an agreement brokered by the Scottish Government to support new opportunities at BiFab’s renewables and marine fabrication and construction yards in the UK.

  • BiFab Gets a Lifeline as Canadians Take Majority Share

    17 April 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Canadian company JV Driver, through its subsidiary DF Barnes, has acquired BiFab as part of an agreement brokered by the Scottish Government to support new opportunities at BiFab’s renewables and marine fabrication and construction yards in the UK.

  • Scottish Renewable Energy Developers Express Concerns Over Grid Delays

    14 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The delays in building electricity transfer links cause the risk for Scotland’s planned offshore tidal, wave and wind power plants, the renewable energy developers announce. According to the founder and director of Pelamis Wave Power, Richard Yemm, wave and tidal energy projects are reliant on the new links to deliver electricity from Orkney, Shetland and […]

  • Fresh deal with Dana to create new jobs at PD&MS in Aberdeen

    18 November 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    PD&MS Group has secured a modifications contract with Dana Petroleum, which is expected to create up to 80 jobs at its Aberdeen base.

  • UK: Islands push for tidal, wave strike price confirmation

    6 July 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    High-level talks have been held with the UK government aimed at ensuring long term benefits for Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles from renewable energy.

  • ISLES Offshore Electricity Grid Study Commissioned

    21 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    A detailed study into how an offshore electricity grid between Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland could be introduced has now been commissioned after being awarded European funding. The second part of the flagship Irish-Scottish Links on Energy Study (ISLES) has now been given £1 million to examine how an offshore grid could be established by […]

  • ABB to Power Dana Petroleum’s FPSO

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

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has been awarded an oil and gas contract worth $20 million for providing power and automation technologies to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) built by the Chinese shipyard COSCO Nantong for Dana Petroleum. The contract was signed in the second quarter of 2013. ABB’s […]

  • ABB to Power Dana Petroleum’s FPSO

    27 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has been awarded an oil and gas contract worth $20 million for providing power and automation technologies to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) built by the Chinese shipyard COSCO Nantong for Dana Petroleum. The contract was signed in the second quarter of 2013. ABB’s […]

  • Irish-Scottish Offshore Grid Study Gets GBP 1 Million of European Funding

    21 June 2013
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Storage

    A detailed study into how an offshore electricity grid between Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland could be introduced has now been commissioned after being awarded European funding. The second part of the flagship Irish-Scottish Links on Energy Study (ISLES) has now been given £1 million to examine how an offshore grid could be established by […]

  • UK’s fiscal and regulatory hurdles pull the plug on FPSO buy as North Sea oil project awaits policy reset

    10 March 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    A deal for an FPSO, picked for an oil redevelopment project in the North Sea, has been taken off the table as New European Offshore (NEO Energy) and its partners, Serica Energy and Jersey Oil & Gas (JOG), continue to wait clarity on the fiscal and regulatory woes arising from the UK’s current oil and gas policy conundrums.

  • ABB Wins $20 Mln FPSO Power and Automation Contract

    27 June 2013

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has been awarded an oil and gas contract worth $20 million for providing power and automation technologies to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) built by the Chinese shipyard COSCO Nantong for Dana Petroleum. The contract was signed in the second quarter of 2013. ABB’s […]

  • ABB Wins USD 20 Million FPSO Order

    27 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has been awarded an oil and gas contract worth $20 million for providing power and automation technologies to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) built by the Chinese shipyard COSCO Nantong for Dana Petroleum. The contract was signed in the second quarter of 2013. ABB’s […]

  • VIDEO: Dramatic Rescue of Irish Fishermen off Scotland

    23 January 2015

    The U.K. Maritime and Coastguard Agency was notified just before 11 AM local time, January 20, that The Iuda Naofa, a 23m Irish fishing vessel, was taking on water 48 miles north of the Butt of Lewis, Scotland.  The Coastguard Rescue helicopter was requested to attend the scene and drop a salvage pump onto the Iuda Naofa […]