Statoil, a Norway based oil & gas exploration and production giant, has started with production reductions at some of its Norwegian sea facilities due to extreme weather conditions. Statoil’s spokesperson Ola Anders Skauby told Reuters that the measures taken were precautionary and that the company
AGR has been awarded a Frame Agreement that is to provide personnel services to GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS. As a global provider of recruitment and consultancy solutions to the upstream oil and gas industry – with offices in Aberdeen, Stavanger, Dubai and Perth – AGR will be responsible for seeking indiv
WFS Technologies, a supplier of radio and acoustic solutions for underwater communication, navigation and power transfer, and MCS Kenny, aspecialist in compliant riser design have announced the delivery of a wireless riser monitoring system for use in deep water environments. Donogh Lang, senior ris
Island Offshore has secured contract for its subsea construction vessel Island Intervention. The vessel has begun the charter with Subsea 7 , the international provider of Subsea, Umbilical, Riser and Flowline (SURF) services. The operations are expected to take up to three weeks. The vessels duties
Deep Sea Metro Ltd. has today taken delivery of the drillship Deepsea Metro II from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI). The naming ceremony for the vessel was held on November 10 in Hyundai Heavy’s shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea. President & CEO of Odfjell Drilling, Simen Lieungh states: “This is the se
An anchor handling tug supply vessel, Maersk Detector, last night collided with Transocean’s GSF Grand Banks rig , offshore Newfoundland. Both, the vessel and the rig have been damaged to some extent, but luckily the crew sustained no injuries, said Husky Energy’s spokesperson, Coleen McConnell. Hus
Russian oil company, Lukoil, reported today that its net income was $9,012 million in the 9 months of 2011, which is 32.1% higher y-o-y, including $2,244 million in the third quarter. EBITDA in the 9 months of 2011 was $15,316 million, which is 27.8% higher y-o-y. Sales revenues were $99,101 million
Global provider of offshore cargo carrying units and associated services, Swire Oilfield Services, has started work on its £4million Aberdeen headquarters, which will create up to 50 new jobs on completion. The construction is part of a £50million investment for the company this year, supporting its
Offshore Survival and Health & Safety experts, Falck Nutec Limited, have appointed Michael Findlay, former owner of Technical Lifting Solutions (TLS) Training (Scotland), as a non-appointed Director of Lifting and Mechanical Maintenance. Managing Director for Falck Nutec UK, Graham Gall, said of the
Amarinth, a company specialising in the design, application and manufacture of centrifugal pumps and associated equipment to the industrial, chemical and petrochemical industries has delivered £750K of API 610 OH2 pumps to ZADCO , for an offshore pilot plant at Zirku Island, Abu Dhabi. The new pilot
On November 23, SOCAR President Mr. Rovnag Abdullayev met with a delegation led by Mr. Yoichi Kobayashi, Itochu Corporation’s vice president and co-chair of the Azerbaijan-Japan Intergovernmental Commission. Welcoming the guests, Mr. Abdullayev noted the development of bilateral relations between Az
ERHC Energy Inc.,a publicly traded U.S. company with oil and gas assets in Sub-Saharan Africa, recently began formal Production Sharing Contract (PSC) negotiations with the National Petroleum Agency of São Tomé and Príncipe (ANP-STP). The PSCs pertain to ERHC’s 100 percent working interest in Blocks
BP and its co-venturers in the Shah Deniz consortium announced their new programme to support Turkey’s Middle East Technical University (METU) in providing technical training and international certification to Turkish engineers. Under this programme, funding from the Shah Deniz consortium will enabl
Tangiers Petroleum Limited, exploration company with permits offshore Australia and Morocco, has received a Competent Persons Report (“CPR”) in respect of its WA-442-P and NT/P81 permit areas. The permits are situated within the shallow offshore Bonaparte Basin in Northern Australia The CPR includes
