A specialist North-east oil and gas industry support and training facility is on track to double its turnover this year. The Aberdeen-based National Hyperbaric Centre (NHC), which has been operating in the North-east for more than 25 years is set to see an increase of more than £3m in the annual fig
Fergus Ewing MSP, Scottish Minister for Energy, Enterprise & Tourism, recently met with GE Oil & Gas at Subsea Systems facility in Aberdeen. Mr. Ewing met Rod Christie, Vice President of Subsea Systems at GE Oil & Gas, to discuss the ambitious expansion plans set in motion at its subsea manufacturin
The MacArtney Underwater Technology Group introduced the OptoLink Single Fibre Connector – a small sized, however, highly significant addition to MacArtney’s successful OptoLink fibre optic connector range. Designed for subsea equipment manufacturers, the low insertion loss and back reflection make
Searcher Seismic announces that the ST9802 Ultracube 3D survey located on the Finnmark Platform in the Barents Sea is currently being fully reprocessed from field tapes. The original processed 3D volume (1999 vintage) is missing many of today’s modern processing algorithms such as swell noise remova
Together with its partners, Statoil is recovering approx. 10 million barrels of oil equivalent through the construction of a seabed template on the Fram H North structure. The seabed template is connected to the A2 template on Fram West, which transports production on to the Troll C platform. Fram H
IPC/WHMA-A-620 is the first industry consensus standard that describes acceptability criteria for crimped, mechanically secured and soldered interconnections and the corresponding lacing/restraining criteria associated with cable and harness assemblies. This credential is recognised and valued throu
Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil) has received consent to use the West Elara mobile drilling facility for drilling and well operations on the Valemon field. The consent covers drilling and completion of 11 production wells and two injection wells on the Valemon field. The drilling activity is scheduled
Fugro OSAE GmbH has been awarded a EUR 2.7 million hydrographic survey contract by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS). This survey, planned for 2013, is part of the on-going MAREANO project and will encompass an area over 11,000km² in the Barents Sea. The area is located offshore the northern-
High level representatives of oil and gas companies operating on the North Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico will disclose their outlook on energy production in the respective regions as part of Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference on 23 and 24 October in the Amsterdam RAI. Several hundreds of offsho
Wood Group Integrity Management (WGIM), part of Wood Group Kenny, has been awarded a significant contract by CNR International (UK) Limited (CNRI) to provide Pipeline Integrity Management and Support Services for CNRI’s UKCS assets which include Ninian, Lyell, Tiffany, Toni, Thelma and Murchison. Th
From 17 to 19 October, in Dublin, DCNS will participate in the 4th International Conference on Ocean Energy. This conference will gather global industry and academic experts in marine renewable energy. They will share on this growing new industry. DCNS, a world leader in naval defence and an innovat
Project 21300 rescue ship Igor Belousov being built at JSC Admiralteyskie Verfi shipyard in St. Petersburg will be launched on Oct 30, an insider at the yard told Central Navy Portal. Works on the new-generation seagoing rescue ship started at the Almaz Design Bureau early in 2003. Technical project
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has announced that Michel Demaré will step down as ABB’s Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee. He has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Board of Syngenta beginning in April 2013 and will in the future focus on h
The IMR vessel ‘Seven Viking’, that will be co-owned by Eidesvik Offshore and Subsea 7, was launched from the dock hall at Ulstein Verft on Wednesday 17 October. In her right element, the compact 106.5 m long and 24.5 m wide vessel looks very impressive. The SX148 design will carry out a multitude o
