Atkins reports good results in a challenging environment and is well positioned for future growth Design and engineering consultancy group WS Atkins plc (Atkins) today announces unaudited results for the six months ended 30 September 2010. FINANCIAL SUMMARY Six months to Six months to Increase / (De
BP Egypt announced today that it has made a significant gas discovery in the Deepwater West Nile Delta area. The Hodoa discovery is located in the West Mediterranean Deepwater, Nile Delta concession, some 80 km northwest of Alexandria. The WMDW-7 well was drilled to a depth of 6350 metres and is the
GRIMSBY’S credentials as a major centre for renewables has been boosted by the news that energy giant Centrica plans to move into a… (thisisgrimsby) [mappress] Source: thisisgrimsby, November 24, 2010;
GRIMSBY’S credentials as a major centre for renewables has been boosted by the news that energy giant Centrica plans to move into a… (thisisgrimsby) [mappress] Source: thisisgrimsby, November 24, 2010;
Drydocks World has announced the delivery of Jack-up platform Swift 10 to Swift Drilling BV. Swift Drilling BV is a joint venture between Cofely Oil & Gas BV and Jack-Up Barge BV. The contract was valued at AED 89.3833 million. The specialized jack up platform was built at Drydocks World’s yard in N
Scana Industrier ASA has been awarded two projects to deliver machined tendom forgings through its subsidiary Scana Subsea AB. The high tensile long forgings are intended for Gulf of Mexico and Brazil as part of field development projects. Value of contracts are approx 8,6 M USD. -The contracts are
The Board of Neptune Marine Services Limited today announced the appointment of Mr Robin King as the company’s acting Chief Executive Officer. Mr King, Neptune’s current Regional Vice President for Australia, New Zealand and PNG, joined Neptune in September 2010 from Technip Subsea 7 (TS7) Asia Paci
Rosneft and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) signed a memorandum on expanding cooperation in the upstream sector. The document was signed by Rosneft’s President Eduard Khudainatov and General Director of CNPC Jiang Zemin within the Russian-Chinese energy dialogue held on November 22-23 in
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (Taqa), a publicly listed company on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, announced the successful restart of crude oil production from the Rijn field offshore the Netherlands, 12 years after being shut down. Taqa applied recent advances in technology to create t
Santos today announced that appraisal drilling and wireline logging of the Spar-2 well in WA-4-R, located in the Carnarvon Basin offshore Western Australia, has confirmed 55 metres of net gas pay in the primary target Upper Barrow reservoir. The target reservoir has demonstrated very high productivi
The semi submersible drilling rig “Norbe VI” has been delivered and handed over to SBM Offshore’s client Odebrecht Oil & Gas offshore Abu Dhabi on 23 November 2010. The rig is the second out of a series of three semi submersible drilling rigs which the Company contracted to supply to Brazilian clien
MEO Australia Limited advises that since the last progress report, the Songa Venus semi-submersible drilling rig completed its journey and arrived at the Artemis-1 location at 03:10 hours (Perth time) on Tuesday 23rd November. All anchors have been run and the rig has been ballasted down to drilling
On 11 November 2010 DONG Energy A/S announced its intention to issue, subject to market conditions, new callable subordinated capital securities due 3010. At the same time DONG Energy announced a conditional invitation to all holders of its outstanding EUR 1.1bn callable subordinated capital securit
Aker Solutions has secured an important contract to supply heating systems for the subsea pipelines that Technip will deliver and install for the Goliat field in the Barents Sea. Contract value is approximately NOK 80 million (Approximately USD 13 million). Direct electrical heating (DEH) of pipelin
