SSE has announced that it will no longer have a financial involvement in the NorthConnect project, the interconnector development company seeking to build a subsea electricity cable between Great Britain and Norway. NorthConnect partners (Vattenfall UK, E-CO Energi, Agder Energi (AE), and Lyse) rema
STX OSV Holdings Limited, one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, announces that the STX OSV Group of companies will adopt the new brand name VARD. The adoption of the new name, logo and brand identity follows the sale of STX Europe’s majority stake in
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a contract valued at approximately US$380 million from Statoil for the Aasta Hansteen gas field, located west of Bodø in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea. The contract comprises the design, coating, fabrication and installation of 19km of rigid flowlines; a
Following its recent acquisition of Tidal Generation Limited from Rolls-Royce, Alstom ‘s 1MW tidal turbine generated power for the first time at the European Marine Energy Centre’s (EMEC) tidal test site in Orkney, Scotland. After the successful test of its 500kW device, it is the second Alstom tida
TAQA, the global energy company based in Abu Dhabi, can confirm that a hydrocarbon release was detected in one of the Cormorant Alpha platform legs in the northern UK North Sea. It has now been contained with no further hydrocarbon release. The release remained within the platform leg and no hydroca
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been appointed by BP and its co-venturers, Shell, ConocoPhillips and Chevron, to deliver the hook up and commissioning services (HUC) for the two new Clair Ridge platforms. The work, which is scheduled to run through to March 20
Two incidents involving minor personal injuries and one near-miss hazardous situation were reported in 2012 in connection with saturation diving in connection with petroleum activities. This is discussed in the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway’s (PSA’s) report from the DSYS diving database. This ye
Technip announces that it has signed two agreements with State Corporation Russian Technologies (Rostec) during the official meeting between François Hollande, President of the French Republic, and Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, held yesterday in Moscow, Russia. The agreements
On Sunday February 24, the last production well on Glitne was shut down, after 12 years of production. With a quadrupling of its useful life, more than doubling of production and excellent partnership cooperation, Glitne has been a success for compliance, both for Det norske and the other licensees.
The Welsh Government has given its approval to the development of the Skerries Tidal Stream Array, which will be Wales’ first commercial tidal energy farm. The Skerries tidal array, one of the largest of its kind to be consented in the UK, will be developed by Siemens-owned Marine Current Turbines (
Gassco AS (Gassco) has received consent for disposal of the H-7 facility. The H-7 facility is located in the German sector of the North Sea and was used as a compressor platform along the Norpipe pipeline from 1977 to 1999. The facility will now be disassembled and removed from the site. Operating c
NCS Survey AS has been awarded a three-year contract with two one-year options with Norwegian operator Statoil for the supply of rig positioning services on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The contract commenced on the first of the year. NCS Survey AS was established in November 2012 and is based i
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has received an order worth around $10 million, from Landsnet, the Icelandic transmission system operator, to supply a high-voltage submarine and underground power-cable system that will transport electricity from the mainland to the volcanic i
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) announces that it has secured multi-client late sales worth approximately USD 10 million. These sales stem from a combination of the company’s 3D EM data library in Brazil, the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. The revenues will be recognized in the first quar
