Fossil Energy
SPE: One week left to enter 2015 Offshore Achievement Awards
Offshore oil and gas and renewables companies have just days left to enter the 2015 Offshore Achievement Awards, SPE says. The deadline for the awards, organised and hosted by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section and supported by main sponsor TAQA, is Monday December 1, 2014. Ac
Giant ‘Pieter Schelte’ on its way to Rotterdam
A twin-hull behemoth, a giant, the world’s largest vessel, largest catamaran, biggest offshore vessel, the world’s largest crane ship. This is how it has been described. It is the ‘Pieter Schelte’, and it is now on its way to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, sailing from South Korea, where it was recentl
Popular news, November 17 – 23, 2014
The articles you have read the most this past week include the one on Halliburton’s take-over of Baker Hughes; the production kick off at Tubular Bells; two Greenpeace activists injured in protest against offshore drilling; Repsol starts drilling offshore Canary Islands; Gulf of Mexico platform blas
OPITO launches app for offshore training records
Offshore workers will for the first time be able to access their training records at the touch of a button wherever they are in the world thanks to a new mobile application launched by OPITO. Oil and gas skills organisation OPITO has developed the free TRAIN-R mobile app so workers in any internatio
Statoil cancels another rig contract
Statoil has cancelled a contract for yet another drilling rig. This time it is the Stena Carron drillship, in Angola. Statoil has explained that it has opted to cancel the Stena Carron rig contract after fulfilling the work commitments in the Statoil-operated blocks 38 and 39 in the Kwanza basin off
BW Offshore: Son takes over Chairman role from father
BW Offshore, an Oslo-based provider of floating production storage and offloading units to the international oil and gas industry, has elected a new Chairman of the Board. Dr Helmut Sohmen has announced his retirement effective 20 November 2014 as Chairman of the Board of BW Offshore Limited, after
VOS Hera ERRV joins Vroon’s Aberdeen fleet
VOS Hera vessel has joined the Vroon Offshore Services Aberdeen fleet. Following its previous successful deployment for Vroon Offshore Italia SRL, the vessel has now been repositioned within the Vroon fleet to Aberdeen. It will operate under the UK flag, with Aberdeen as home port. VOS Hera was buil
Rosneft starts shipping oil from North Chayvo field
Russian oil giant Rosneft has begun shipment of crude oil extracted at the Northern Tip of Chayvo license off the coast of Sakhalin, with the first tanker carrying Sokol-grade crude leaving port on November 21. The tanker was loaded at the Sokol single-point oil terminal located 5.7 km east of DeKas
Technip’s eyes on CGG
French oilfield services provider Technip has made a move to buy CGG, a seismic acquisition specialist, also based in France. Technip says that the proposed transaction would take the form of a public tender offer in cash for CGG’s shares at a price of 8.30 euros per share. According to The Wall Str
Oyster bags stake in UK North Sea licence
Oyster Petroleum Limited has entered into a farm-in agreement whereby, in exchange for covering certain well costs on drilling, Oyster Petroleum will acquire a 30% interest in licence P.2132, covering blocks 16/11b and 16/16 in the South Viking Graben of the UK North Sea. The P.2132 licence is opera
Italian minister: South Stream is useful infrastructure, but not priority
South Stream Transport, a consortium between Russia’s Gazprom, Italy’s Eni S.p.A., France’s EDF, and Germany’s Wintershall, last week announced it was ready to begin offshore construction of its South Stream gas pipeline project. The project is designed to bring Russian gas to European market throug
Wood Group CFO to step down
Wood Group has announced that its chief financial officer (CFO) Alan Semple intends to retire and step down from his current role and from the board at the company’s annual general meeting in May 2015 at which time he will have held senior financial roles with Wood Group for over 19 years. Alan Semp
Technology – A new way forward for the UKCS?
“Technology – A new way forward for the UKCS?” is the title of the next Oil & Gas UK breakfast briefing at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on December 2 which will explore how technological innovation helps the oil and gas sector, and other industries including the aerospace sector, to
Gazprom, PVN joint projects to reach full capacity in 2016
The Gazprom headquarters hosted yesterday a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Nguyen Xuan Son, Chairman of the PetroVietnam Oil and Gas Group (PVN) Board of Directors. The parties addressed the future cooperation in the oil and gas sector. In par