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June 23, 2015
Seatronics Ltd. has promoted Derek Donaldson from V.P. of Asia Pacific to V.P. of global operations.
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June 23, 2015
Plexus Holdings PLC announced that it will launch its new POS-GRIP Python Subsea Wellhead during Europe’s biggest Oil and Gas trade show, ‘SPE Offshore Europe’, on Sep. 8, 2015. The new Python Subsea Wellhead, previously referred to as the “HGSS” Wellhead, has been designed to address key technical issues and requirements highlighted by regulators following the Gulf of Mexico incident in April 2010 and to achieve a new best in class standard for subsea wellheads that can for the first time match those of premium couplings.
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June 23, 2015
Workstrings International announced the completion of global expansion projects in Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom. These expansion projects, aimed at enhancing Workstrings’ commitment to customer service, workplace safety and environmental protection, include relocation and expansion of its Takoradi, Ghana, facility; expansion of inspection amenities at its global headquarters in Broussard, Louisiana; and opening of a purpose-built inspection facility within its Aberdeen, UK, campus.
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June 22, 2015
Statoil has awarded Tenaris the contract for the supply of casing, tubing and all related services for the Mariner Project.
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June 22, 2015
Offshore Installation Services (OIS), an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract by Antrim Energy to decommission four subsea wells in the central North Sea. The offshore scope of the campaign, which also includes six wells from Centrica Energy, will include complete offshore and onshore project management, vessel charter, equipment and personnel.
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June 19, 2015
Oil & Gas UK’s annual conference, which focused on the next 40 years of the offshore industry and attracted more than 500 people, featured the launch of an animation celebrating the sector’s achievements to date.
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June 19, 2015
Petrofac’s Offshore Projects & Operations business unit has secured contract renewals for operations and maintenance work worth approximately $400 million on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
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June 18, 2015
Harkand has commenced decommissioning work on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf in support of Maersk Oil UK’s work in Leadon field.
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June 17, 2015
Oil & Gas UK’s chief executive, Deirdre Michie, warned Wednesday that the UK offshore oil and gas industry must become sustainable “in a world of $60 oil.”
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June 16, 2015
The plugging and abandonment (P&A) of offshore wells represents a significant cost to operating companies and national authorities. On the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) alone, the cost is estimated to be $108 billion over the next 40 years.
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June 15, 2015
Cuadrilla Resources Ltd., the driller whose fracing ambitions have sparked protests in the UK, took a step closer to sinking a shale-gas well in northwest England as council planners backed the project.
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June 11, 2015
Statoil (U.K.) Limited has awarded the contract for production chemicals and services for Mariner field to Baker Hughes Limited in the UK.
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June 11, 2015
Two-thirds of North Sea oil and gas industry operators (67%) have been forced to cancel projects because of the recent fall in oil price, according to an industry report published Thursday.
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June 10, 2015
NorSea Group (UK) Limited has won northeast Scotland’s first major “small piece” decommissioning contract.
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June 10, 2015
Swire Oilfield Services, the world’s largest supplier of offshore cargo carrying units and a leading supplier of cargo carrying solutions, modular systems, fluid management and offshore aviation services, has appointed Roy Shearer as the company’s new CFO.
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June 08, 2015
UKOOG—the representative body for the UK onshore oil and gas industry—and the GMB trade union have announced the agreement of a joint charter on shale gas, focusing on safety, skills and supply chain development.
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June 05, 2015
UK Oil & Gas Investments announced Friday that Schlumberger has independently assessed the petrophysics of the Horse Hill-1 well (HH-1). The well is located in PEDL137, in the Weald basin, near to London’s Gatwick Airport. UKOG has a net attributable interest of 20.358% in PEDL137.
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June 03, 2015
When OPEC started a price war last November, driving oil down to its current $65 bbl, U.S. shale drillers looked doomed. Six months later, it’s the world’s largest oil companies that are emerging as the unexpected casualties.
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June 01, 2015
International marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore bucks the oil market trend to establish an office in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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May 29, 2015
Atlantic Offshore Rescue has unveiled its third new vessel in the past 12 months as part of the company's fleet modernization program, representing an investment totaling about $458 million (£300 million).
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May 29, 2015
Jee Ltd, an independent multi-discipline subsea engineering and training firm, has completed a contract with Decom North Sea (DNS), the representative body for the decommissioning industry, to identify pioneering methods of salvage and re-use options for concrete subsea mattresses.
