Oil & Gas UK, the leading representative organisation for the UK offshore oil and gas industry, has appointed David Ripley as its the new supply chain director. David replaces Brian Kinkead, who moved on earlier in the year, and has over 25 years of varied experience in the upstream oil and gas indu
DNV has signed a contract to certify the high voltage direct current (HVDC) DolWin beta transformer station offshore Germany. This includes certifying the design phase, construction, fabrication, transport and commissioning of the station. DolWin beta is a transformer station operated by TenneT, one
Technip Offshore Wind Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Technip, has reinforced its next generation subsea technology, underpinning its ambitious vision to drive the renewables industry to a new frontier. Technip has harnessed its internationally proven deep-rooted energy sector expertise to breed a
Leading international oilfield services company Expro has recently been awarded a significant contract by engineering project management company SPD on behalf of its client Valiant Causeway Limited. The contract involves the supply of subsea landing string services for monitoring of electronic subme
On 25th September 2011, Jumbo Shipping brought the J-lay tower back home from Port Gentil, Gabon to the port of Flushing, the Netherlands. Jumbo lifted the almost 1800t weighing pipeline production facility from Subsea 7’s Pipe Laying barge Acergy Polaris onto its J-type Fairpartner. The tower will
A Bowtech camera system has been successfully deployed to observe decommissioning operations on the L13FH well which is operated by Shell in the Dutch Sector of the Southern North Sea. They were requested by Shell UK to supply a camera system to be fitted to the L13FH well. Bowtech engineers, workin
A full-size prototype of the floating LIDAR offshore resource assessment system, known as FLIDAR™, has been successfully tested 15km off the Belgian coast. It has been located next to a stationary LIDAR (WINDCUBE®v2 LIDAR from Leosphere) on a fixed communication mast for the month of October, in ord
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
Subsea 7 S.A. announced today the award of a SURF contract valued at approximately $75 million from Total E&P Norge AS on the Atla (formerly David) Field, situated in the central part of the North Sea, 20km northeast of the Heimdal Field. The contract scope includes the management, engineering, proc
SeaBird Exploration PLC has entered into a share and purchase agreement (“SPA”) with Fugro Norway AS on 18 November 2011. Under the SPA, Fugro will acquire SeaBird Technologies AS and Seabed Navigation Company Limited which collectively hold all of the Company’s rights and assets related to the ocea
WASACE is an exciting new international communications system linking the major markets of four continents – Africa, South America, North America and Europe, with undersea fiber-optic cable. It is the largest such project ever mounted in the Atlantic Ocean. The projects’ total fiber length is seven
Aberdeen-based subsea installation contractor Bibby Offshore has announced a multi-million pound investment in marine assets for its core North Sea market. From January 2012, the DP3 Diving Support Vessel, Toisa Polaris, will come under the control of Bibby Offshore. The vessel will be taken on a 2-
The Vilje partners have taken the investment decision to develop Vilje South, an extension to the main field included in its original plan for development and operation (PDO). An oil producer, Vilje lies just to the north of Heimdal in the northern part of Norway’s North Sea sector. The well planned
FES International has secured a $4.7M deal to supply, Maersk Oil UK with 22 bespoke diverless bend stiffener connectors (DBSC) for its Gryphon floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the North Sea. The FES DBSCs are designed to enable quick, efficient and cost effective installat
