Fossil Energy
Intertek expands corrosion testing facility
Intertek has invested £1.2 million ($1.8 M) expanding its centre of excellence for corrosion testing services in order to meet growing demand for asset life extension solutions in the oil and gas industry. The expansion, which has been driven by new contract awards worth around £1m, takes the total
No name change for ‘Pieter Schelte’
UK’s maritime workers union yesterday slammed a decision by Shell to hire the Allseas’ ‘Pieter Schelte’ vessel for the Brent field decommissioning project. The vessel was named after the late father of Edward Heerema, the owner of Allseas. The unions are outraged by the fact that the vessel bears th
Statoil: Nexans umbilicals for Visund field
Statoil has signed a contract at a value of 4.5 million EUR ($5.15 M) for the fifth delivery of standardised umbilical cables developed by Nexans. According to Nexans, Statoil’s Visund oil and gas field, located in the Tampen area of the Norwegian North Sea, will be the fifth project to use these st
MAN targets offshore drilling. Launches PA6 B Offshore GenSet
MAN Diesel & Turbo has announced the launch of its PA6 B Offshore GenSet (OG). The company says that the new engine is specifically targeted at semi-submersible drilling rigs. The PA6 B is a four-stroke, medium-speed engine built at MAN Diesel & Turbo’s St. Nazaire, France facility from where the co
Damen to upgrade ‘Global 1200’ vessel
Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam (DSR), part of Damen Shiprepair & Conversion, has won a contract by Technip, for dry-docking, upgrades and operational modifications to the deepwater rigid pipe S-lay and heavy lift vessel, the Global 1200. The vessel arrived at the yard in January 2015. The Global 1200 is
VIDEO: Tests finalized on SROV Surveyor Interceptor
Reach Subsea and MMT Sweden have recently finalized offshore tests on a new Survey ROV (SROV) Surveyor Interceptor, owned by the two companies in a JV, from the vessel Edda Fonn. Sea trials with the new SROV have been performed to collect background data for a specialized handling system, to test sp
Maersk Oil hires Island Offshore’s vessel
Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited has awarded a contract to Island Offshore covering the time charter of the purpose built walk-to-work, subsea support vessel Island Crown. The duration of the contract is 100 days, with options to extend the contracts further. The vessel will begin the contract on Jun
‘VOS Glory’ en route to UK
Vroon has informed that on Wednesday, February 4, the VOS Glory vessel left Fujian Shipbuilding Trading in Fuzhou, China. The vessel is at the start of its journey to the United Kingdom, where it will operate in the North Sea under management of Vroon Offshore Services Aberdeen. VOS Glory is a 60m E
PSA probes Edvard Grieg development
From 8 to 10 December 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of Lundin Norway AS and the Edvard Grieg development project, in the Norwegian North Sea. The Edvard Grieg field is being developed using a manned fixed facility comprising a processing facility, living quar
Talisman Sinopec changing offshore shift patterns
Talisman Sinopec Energy UK is reportedly making a move to change the shift patterns for its offshore workers. The idea is to move the North Sea workers, the majority of them have up until now been spending two weeks onshore and two weeks offshore, onto a three-week shift pattern. A Talisman spokeswo
Unions don’t want ‘Pieter Schelte’ in UK
Maritime union RMT has slammed Shell UK’s decision to award to Swiss-based Allseas Group SA the contract for the decommissioning of three of its Brent platforms that are situated on the UK Continental Shelf using its newest vessel, the Pieter Schelte, for the task. Shell has today said it has begun
Greek Prime Minister: Turkey violates Cyprus’ sovereign rights
Alexis Tsipras, the recently appointed prime minister of Greece and the Leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left party (SYRIZA), on his first international visit, in Cyprus, used the opportunity to criticize Turkey for “the violation of the sovereign rights of the Republic of Cyprus” by deploying
CEO: ‘Our focus must now be on resetting BP’
In line with its industry peers, British oil company, BP, will reduce investments in 2015, saying it is taking action to respond to the likelihood of oil prices remaining low into the medium term and to rebalance its sources and uses of cash accordingly. The company today reported its results for th
Shell to remove Brent Delta topside in a single lift (Gallery)
Royal Dutch Shell has started preparing plans for the decommissioning of the Brent Delta Platform in the UK North sea. The platform is one of four platforms located in the Brent oil and gas field. According to Shell, the Brent field has produced roughly 10 percent of all UK North Sea oil and gas and