Operations & Maintenance
Plexus in Revenue Warning, But Eyes Recovery
Plexus Holdings, oil and gas engineering services business, has noted that its revenue for the current financial year, ending 30 June 2017, is currently running materially behind expectations. The company is said to be in negotiations for the conclusion of several new contracts which if they fall wi
Namaka Subsea Scores UK North Sea Deal
Namaka Subsea, an Aberdeen based subsea consulting company, has secured a 5-year contract with an undisclosed UK North Sea operator to act as their diving technical authority. This scope of work outlines the requirement for Namaka Subsea to provide diving technical authority, dive assurance and dive
EU on track to meet 2020 renewable energy targets
The second report on the state of the Energy Union has shown the EU is on track to reach the 2020 renewable energy target of 20%.
Genesis Scoops BP FEED Award
Engineering company Genesis has been awarded two frame agreement contracts by BP covering work in the Conceptual, Pre-FEED and FEED stages of the project lifecycle. These frame agreement contracts have global reach and ensure that Genesis will continue to engage early with BP to support them in thei
Flying Coatings and Corrosion Inspector Coming in October 2017
AkzoNobel, DroneOps and Barrier Group have partnered to develop drone technology for remote inspection of offshore wind farms as well as ballast water tanks on ocean going ships.
Flying Coatings and Corrosion Inspector Coming in October 2017
AkzoNobel, DroneOps and Barrier Group have partnered to develop drone technology for remote inspection of offshore wind farms as well as ballast water tanks on ocean going ships.
TCarta Marine and Proteus Geo Combine
TCarta Marine has merged with Proteus Geo to create a global mapping company that provides bathymetric and marine data sets from the shallow coastal zone out to the continental shelf. The new company is called TCarta Marine and will maintain offices in Denver and Oxford. “By merging, we believe the
PHOTO: Heerema Presses on with Culzean Jacket Work
Heerema Fabrication Group is pressing on with its operations on two jackets meant for the Culzean field development at its Vlissingen facility in the Netherlands. The company reported through its social media channels on Tuesday, January 31 that the last row of the Culzean’s utility & living quarter
Highlights of the Month: January 2017
Ex-Statkraft Engineer Develops New Foundation Installation Solution Arild Bolsø, an engineer who worked for Statkraft in Norway and Forewind in the UK, has developed a new technical concept for offshore wind foundation installation. According to Bolsø, the concept would reduce installation time by 3
Seatools Introduces New Subsea Storage Technology
In January of this year, Dutch subsea technology company Seatools completed an R&D program on a subsea liquid storage technology. During the program, a continuation of an earlier engineering study performed on behalf of Statoil, the storage technology successfully passed a full product qualification
PSA Probe Spots Deficiencies in Gullfaks B Ops Management
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has detected several non-conformities and improvement points in an audit of Statoil’s management of operations and barriers at Gullfaks B. Statoil is the operator of the Gullfaks field in the North Sea west of Sognefjord. The field has been developed using
Smulders Nets EOWDC Foundations Job
A contract for assembling pioneering suction bucket foundations for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) has helped safeguard around 35 jobs and create up to another 105 positions in Newcastle upon Tyne after being awarded to Smulders Projects. The company will carry out the
Damen Gets Aquaculture Utility Vessel Deal in Norway
Damen Shipyards Group signed a contract with Norway-based VOLT Service AS for a Utility Vessel (UV) 4312 to be delivered in Q1 2018. The vessel, to be named VOLT Processor, will undertake delousing operations and other services at Norwegian salmon farms. Remøy Management AS has been involved in the
JBA Consulting and Met Office Sign ForeCoast Marine Reseller Deal
JBA Consulting has signed a reseller agreement with the Met Office which will now offer JBA’s metocean risk management software – ForeCoast Marine – to its marine and offshore clients. ForeCoast Marine is a planning, visualisation and decision support tool which utilises Met Office forecast data to