Alan Brunnen and Tove Røskaft will both take a seat at the executive management team of Aker Solutions following a restructuring of the company’s business area Subsea. Mads Andersen who has headed Subsea leaves the company after eight years in the same executive team. Alan Brunnen has headed up Aker
Recently Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg visited the Havila-ship Seven Havila from Herøy while the ship was in Randaberg. Afterwards he told Stavanger Aftenblad that he has learned a lot from the visit and that he never earlier have been aboard a offshore-vessel as big as this. Seven Havila is the w
Schlumberger today announced at the Offshore Europe 2011 Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition the combining of its fishing and intervention services, which will be delivered through SERVCO services. The new service organization will offer fishing and pipe recovery, wellbore departure, wellbore aban
UK based Coastline Surveys Limited, were contracted by Calegeo, a trading division of Calecore Ltd, for a Alcatel Lucent cable burial assessment survey recently broke their own water depth record with their C-Pen40 seabed CPT system. Under the survey a total of 44 CPT’s were completed along the prop
2H Offshore has moved to strengthen its global management team with the appointment of Tim Eyles as its managing director and David Walters as a principal director. The appointments have been made as one of 2H’s founders Steve Hatton leaves Acteon in search of new challenges. Steve was hugely influe
Research underway at the University of Aberdeen using an intrinsically safe tool developed by CorDEX Instruments is set to provide a new model for corrosion assessment to enhance oil and gas safety. The aim of the research is to shed light on how corrosion develops spatially on steel pipelines and v
DNV has developed a protocol to ensure diver safety and weld integrity for the most challenging subsea welding jobs where traditional pressure testing is not possible. The welding of new connections on to operational subsea pipelines as satellite wells are added to increase production in an offshore
Wood Group Kenny has been appointed by BP to provide engineering design and project management services for the subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) infrastructure for BP’s Quad 204 redevelopment project West of Shetland. Wood Group Kenny is responsible for the design of $1.2 billion worth o
Wood Group, the international energy services company, is focusing on growing its world-leading engineering, production facilities support and gas turbine services businesses following the acquisition of PSN and the disposal of its Well Support division. To facilitate engineering growth, the Enginee
Reinforcing its position as a leading supplier of subsea technology for North Sea oilfield projects, GE Oil & Gas announced at Offshore Europe 2011 that it will provide subsea production equipment to Valiant Causeway Ltd. for the development of the Causeway Field. GE will supply two subsea productio
GE Oil & Gas subsea systems and services have been selected by Ithaca Energy (UK) Ltd. for the Stella oil and gas field development project in the Central North Sea, GE reported at Offshore Europe 2011. Under a contract of $17 million, GE will supply an integrated package of “S” Series shallow water
Leading international oilfield service company Expro will be showcasing a range of its latest technologies, which enable it to offer the complete package of solutions across the entire well lifecycle, at the Offshore Europe conference and exhibition in Aberdeen, September 6 – 8. Deepwater developmen
Deepwater drilling and performance improvement specialist Exceed is exhibiting for the first time at Offshore Europe’s Deepwater Zone (Stand 6C27) following a record year for the business. The Aberdeen-based company surpassed targets to turn over £5.2million ($8.5million) in 2010/11 and has taken on
Schlumberger announced today at the Offshore Europe 2011 Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition the release of the FORTRESS* isolation valve. The FORTRESS valve simplifies the transition from upper completion to production without the need for intervention. “The FORTRESS isolation valve was designed
