Fossil Energy
Wärtsilä, DOF pen services supply deal
Finland’s Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s solutions and services provider, has signed an extensive three-year services supply agreement with the Norwegian DOF Group in the end of April 2014.
Aberdeen Harbour expansion in focus at DNS Lunch & Learn event
Decom North Sea (DNS), the oil and gas decommissioning forum, will host a lunch and learn event to give supply chain companies the opportunity to learn more about a variety of pertinent topics; from crisis communications, to the new developments at Aberdeen harbour. The event will take place on Tues
Opportunity for small suppliers to do business with major industry buyers (UK)
NOF Energy has expanded it sold-out annual supplier day to feature an extended networking session to offer companies the chance to engage key companies from the energy sector supply chain. The Annual Supplier Day, which takes place on Wednesday, June 25, at Hardwick Hall, in Sedgefield, County Durha
SeaEnergy and GO in ship management deal
SeaEnergy PLC has announced that its subsidiary SeaEnergy Ship Management Limited (SEASM) has entered into a 51:49 joint venture (JV) with Go Offshore (Asia) Pte Ltd (GO) a Singapore based shipping company, with SEASM having 51%. The JV called GOSeaEnergy Ship Management Limited (GOSeaEnergy) will m
Oil & Gas UK welcomes two operator representatives to its board
Oil & Gas UK, the representative organisation for the UK offshore oil and gas industry, has officially confirmed the appointment of two operator representatives to its Board. Effective immediately, Glen Cayley, upstream director, Shell UK Limited, is appointed as vice chairman of the organisation, r
Bureau Veritas awarded for offshore rolling research
A team in the R&D department of leading international classification society Bureau Veritas, working with Brazil’s Petrobras, has been awarded the prestigious OMAE 2013 Best Paper of Offshore Technology Symposium for its paper detailing the ground breaking research into second-order rolling of FLNGs
Rosneft, ExxonMobil complete Kara Sea expedition
The Kara-Winter-2014 Ice Expedition organized by the Arctic Research and Design Center (a joint venture of Rosneft and ExxonMobil) with expert support from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Federal State Budget Institution was successfully finished. According to Rosneft, this was the large
Statoil’s chairman re-elected, new member named
In a meeting in the Corporate Assembly of Statoil ASA on 10th June, Svein Rennemo was re-elected as chair and Grace Reksten Skaugen as deputy chair of the board of directors. Bjørn Tore Godal, Maria Johanna Oudeman, Jakob Stausholm, Catherine Hughes and James Mulva were re-elected as shareholder rep
INPEX sets up base in Norway
Japan’s INPEX CORPORATION has established a wholly-owned Norwegian resident subsidiary company, INPEX Norge AS , and opened its first office in the Kingdom of Norway in Oslo. Through this most recently added office in Oslo, INPEX will promote oil and natural gas exploration and production activities
Fine Tubes reports rise in 2013 turnover
Fine Tubes, a UK-based manufacturer and distributor of precision tubes for critical applications, today announced an increase in turnover of 5.5% in its 2013 results. It said that in line with the company’s strategy for continued sales growth in all its key markets – Aerospace, Nuclear, Power Genera
Marathon gets go-ahead for manned subsea ops offshore Norway
Marathon Oil Norge AS has received consent to perform manned subsea operations on the Alvheim, Volund, Vilje and Bøyla fields. The planned start-up of the operation is July 1, 2014. Water depth at the site is approximately 120 metres. Alvheim Alvheim is an oil and gas field in the central part of
The world’s largest jack-up rig reaches Norway (Gallery)
The world’s largest jack-up rig has arrived at Westcon Yards in Olen, Norway. The Maersk Drilling-owned Maersk Intrepid rig, recently built in Singapore by Keppel, arrived at the Westcon yard yesterday. The rig has sailed from Singapore with the heavy lift vessel Hawk. With a leg length of 206.8 met
Vard confirms largest single vessel order in its history
Vard Holdings Limited today confirmed that the contract for the design and construction of a large Offshore Subsea Construction Vessel (OSCV) with Solstad has been made effective. The contract is the largest single vessel order in VARD’s history. The contract value has already been included in the n
Valemon topside loaded on Dockwise Triumph vessel (VIDEO)
The topside destined for the Valemon field offshore Norway, has been loaded onto the heavy transport vessel Dockwise Triumph in Korea.