Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has secured its sixth major North Sea contract extension this year. The latest award comes in the form of a three-year contract from Nexen Petroleum UK Limited to deliver operations, maintenance and technical support services to the Scott and Buzzard platforms. The contract al
Scandlines and STX Finland Oy have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for building two new ferries for the route Rostock (Germany) – Gedser (Denmark) for delivery in spring 2015. The project will bring some 1,000 man-years of work for STX Finland and its subcontracting network. The ferries will be doub
Aker Solutions’ subsidiary Managed Pressure Operations will deliver managed pressure drilling (MPD) systems and riser gas handling services to Repsol Sinopec Brazil. The parties agreed not to disclose the value of the order. The three-year contract comes with an option for an additional two years of
SPEX Group, an Aberdeen-headquartered provider of innovative technology solutions and services to the global oil and gas industry, has secured a further multi-million dollar contract with Shell for the development of a subsea tool. The revolutionary Emergency Severance Tool (EST) is due to undergo f
GE and Gazprombank recently signed a memorandum on strategic cooperation aimed at developing the Russian oil and gas sector. The cooperation agreement defines key areas of collaboration in oil and gas and other energy projects in Russia. They include the joint development of a 16-megawatt (MW) gas t
Wood Group announces the acquisition of Pyeroy Group Limited (“Pyeroy”), a provider of specialist coatings, access and fabric maintenance services to the oil & gas, marine and rail industries. Headquartered in Gateshead, UK, Pyeroy was founded in 1973 and employs approximately 1,800 personnel at eig
Sterling Resources Ltd., announces a revised plan for sanctioning Phase 2 of the Breagh development and an update on Breagh operations. Previously, operator RWE Dea and Sterling (collectively the “Partnership”) were planning to submit the Phase 2 field development plan (“FDP”) addendum by June 30, 2
Enegi, the independent oil and gas Company with a portfolio of assets located in the UK North Sea, Newfoundland Canada, Ireland, and Jordan has announced, that along with its Joint Venture (“JV”) partner ABTechnology (“ABT”), it has signed Heads of Agreement (“HOA”) with Antrim Resources (N.I) Limit
Seatronics, an Acteon company, has recently placed orders totaling £1.7 million with Teledyne TSS. The purchases include 56 top-of-the-range Meridian Surveyor gyrocompasses, six highly-regarded TSS 440 pipe and cable tracking systems and a number of DMS motion sensors. The Meridian Surveyor is a hig
Energinet.dk would like to pre-qualify a number of tenderers to deliver the HV cables for the Horns Rev 3 Offshore Wind Farm. Energinet.dk intends to pre-qualify up to 5 tenders per lot: Lot no. 1: Submarine cable transportation and laying; Lot no. 2: Delivery and installation of beach cable; Lot no
Harkand has secured a multi-million pound subsea inspection, repair and maintenance contract. Under the deal with Apache North Sea, the diving support vessel Harkand Atlantis will be deployed to carry out work in the Beryl field, located 350 km north-east of Aberdeen. The sixth largest oil field in
FoundOcean continues to grow its market share in the offshore renewables industry with a contract award from Alstom to grout the foundations for the first offshore trial of its 6MW Haliade 150 turbine. The turbine will be located near Ostend, 45 km off the Belgian coast. The offshore tests will targ
Government ministers, including energy minister Michael Fallon, and MPs will this week be warned that failure to support subsea technology and skills programmes could impact on UK oil production levels and export revenues. At a reception in Westminster on Wednesday 3rd of July, Subsea UK will unveil
Rosneft starts field seismic prospecting at the license blocks Lisyansky, Kashevarovsky and Magadan-1. Rosneft holds geological study at the blocks jointly with its partner Statoil ASA (Norway). Currently 2D seismic along with shipborne gravity magnetic survey are planned for the blocks. The data is
