Fossil Energy
CGG releases reservoir modeling solution
CGG has released EarthModel® Builder, an affordable modeling solution that is used to improve efficiency, accuracy and flexibility for more realistic representations of the reservoir.
NCS Survey names new Aberdeen business development manager
NCS Survey, an Acteon company, has appointed Simon Goldsworthy as business development manager in its Aberdeen office. Goldsworthy will be responsible for building relationships with existing and potential clients and growing NCS Survey’s presence in the offshore industry globally. Having been activ
Rolls-Royce to open new marine facility in Brazil
Rolls-Royce and UK Chancellor George Osborne have announced that the Group will further invest in Rio de Janeiro State to better support customers in the rapidly expanding offshore oil and gas industry. A new £22 million ($36.5 M) marine facility in Duque de Caxias will be used to assemble and test
S3 buys two ROVs from FMC Technologies
Specialist Subsea Services (S3) has announced the purchase of two new ROVs from FMC Technologies Schilling Robotics. The acquisitions, worth in excess of £4,000,000, ($6.64 M) form part of the company’s ambitious global growth plans and bring the total number of work class ROVs within S3’s fleet to
Aibel scores topside engineering job for Catcher FPSO
Aibel’s Singapore office will perform topside engineering services for the Catcher project with BW Offshore Singapore. The scope includes detailed engineering services for around 7,800 tonnes of topsides modules for the Catcher FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading). The project represent
Kashagan production restart depends on pipelines investigation results
Production from the huge Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea, offshore Kazakhstan may not resume this year. Following the start of production from the Kashagan field on 11 September 2013, the operations had to be stopped on 24 September, due to a gas leak in the onshore section of the gas pipeline
Eni renews Foster Wheeler contract
Foster Wheeler AG has announced today that ENI S.p.A. has renewed for a further two years its existing framework agreement with a subsidiary of Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction Group. Under this agreement, Foster Wheeler provides basic design and front-end engineering design for
The Underwater Centre initiates Nitrox diving course
The first ever commercial diver training course in the use of Enriched Air Nitrox has been launched by the Fort William-based subsea training and trials facility, The Underwater Centre. The training is already widely available in leisure diving but until now the use of Nitrox for commercial diving,
Baker Hughes: Offshore rig count up by 16 in March
Baker Hughes Incorporated announced today that the international rig count for March 2014 was 1,345, up 4 from the 1,341 counted in February 2014, and up 77 from the 1,268 counted in March 2013. The international offshore rig count for March 2014 was 334, up 16 from the 318 counted in February 2014,
Global Energy to launch offshore diving division
Global Energy Group, international energy services company, is launching a new offshore diving division to expand its existing inshore diving operations. Representing a multi-million pound investment by the highly successful Scottish-based group, Global Diving will deliver services for the offshore
Fairfield takes over Dunlin Alpha platform from AMEC
Fairfield Energy, the North Sea focused independent oil and gas company, has taken over Duty Holder responsibilities for its Dunlin Alpha platform. The platform, which is located nearly 200 km north-east of the Shetland Isles, processes production from the main Dunlin field and the Osprey and Merlin
Scottish Tymor Marine opens U.S. office
Scottish energy consultancy Tymor Marine, which has offices in Glasgow and Aberdeen, has marked the end of its second year in business by opening its first overseas facility in the United States. The Louisiana-based offices will fulfil the needs of new and existing clients operating in the Gulf of M
AGR to provide Sakhalin Energy with latest version of P1™ software
Global oil and gas service provider AGR has announced that its software solutions division had signed its first contract with Sakhalin Energy. The three-year deal includes the latest version of its P1™ software, as well as maintenance and support services. This software allows operators to maximise
Hydrasun invests in subsea intervention equipment
Aberdeen-based Hydrasun has invested more than £600,000 ($994,530) in new specialist equipment and inventory, for the completion of High Pressure long length specialist Hose Assemblies for subsea intervention operations. The investment, driven by the on-going success and development of sales of the