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ICoTA Calls For Innovative Award Entries

The Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA) is inviting nominations for its coveted European Chapter Innovation Award. The award recognises a service company or operator for the application of technical innovation in the area of well intervention. The deadline for entries is 23 September; the winner will be announced at the SPE/ICoTA European Well Intervention...

Maersk Contracts Northern Offshore Jack-Up Energy Enhancer

Northern Offshore Ltd. has been awarded a contract from Maersk for the jack-up Energy Enhancer. John Monks, managing director of Northern Offshore Ltd, said: “We are very pleased with this contract award as it provides us with the opportunity to further strengthen our long-term relationship with Maersk.” The contract will see the Energy Enhancer...

New Applus Leader Forecasts Major Growth

Applus+, firmly established in the global testing, inspection and certification (TIC) market, today announces the appointment of well known energy sector director Iain Light as the new global leader of Applus RTD. He will be based in Rotterdam. Iain Light has led business operations for major international organisations including DNV and Lloyd’s Register in a career spanning 35...

Offshore Independents Awarded Contract By Van Oord

Offshore Independents BV, providers of EPC, project management and engineering services to the international oil and gas industry, has been awarded a project management contract by dredging, marine and offshore contractor Van Oord. Under the terms of the contract, Offshore Independents will provide installation engineering, procurement, operations and project management services to support Van Oord’s...

New BigLift Representative For Brazil

BigLift Shipping, one of the major players worldwide in transportation of heavy lift and project cargoes, has announced that BrazGlobal Project Shipping and Logistics Ltda. will be BigLift’s representative in Brazil as of 1 September 2011. BigLift Shipping specialises in the worldwide transportation of heavy lifts and project cargoes, with a history going back...

Global Expansion for Romar International

Aberdeenshire-based oilfield service company Romar International has announced it has entered into agreements with two major companies in Norway and South America. Through the Norwegian initiative with Stavanger-based Petroproducts – a subsidiary of Petrolink AS – the companies will offer an increased service to the offshore drilling and asset decommissioning sectors of the oil...

Wireline Engineering Appoints New Director

Wireline and well intervention technology specialist Wireline Engineering has appointed Donald Mitchell to its board in the newly created position as business development director. Donald is returning to Wireline Engineering where he previously spent ten years in various technical and sales roles. He then joined Welltec for three years as business development manager, involved in...

Endorsing Sea Trucks’ Ambitions

Sea Trucks Group (Sea Trucks), one of the largest and fastest growing oil and gas marine contractors in West Africa, appointed Robert-Jan van Acker as its Chief Executive Officer.  Mr van Acker (39) has over 13 years experience in the international marine industry. He joins Sea Trucks from Svitzer Group, the global provider of...

Fairmount Tugs Bring FPSO Skarv Idun in Final Position

Fairmount Marine’s powerful tugs Fairmount Sherpa and Fairmount Summit have towed FPSO Skarv Idun to the field in the northern Norwegian Sea after it was completed and prepared in Norway. Both tugs had already performed the tow of FPSO Skarv Idun from Korea to Norway earlier this year. The FPSO was towed at a...

Jumbo Offshore Will Install 111 Pieces for Anholt Offshore Wind Farm

MT Højgaard has awarded Jumbo Offshore the transport and installation contract for all of the 111 transition pieces (TP’s) for the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm (Denmark). The 400 MW wind farm is currently being developed by DONG Energy. The Anholt Wind Farm is located in the ‘Kattegat’, near Anholt Island, and will be the...

BP Started Gas Production From the Serrette Field

BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) has announced the start of natural gas production from the Serrette field, offshore Trinidad.  Serrette is located in 280 feet (90 m) of water off Trinidad’s south east coast. BPTT holds a 100% interest in the field.  Serrette is a normally unmanned installation (NUI). It was locally designed by Fluor...

Darcy Appoints Business Development Expert

Completions and sand management specialist Darcy has appointed a business development manager, Mark Presslie, in its latest move to support the introduction of a new technology-led solution to optimise oil and gas reservoir inflow. Experienced industry figure Presslie has joined the Darcy team to meet the customer service requirements in the company’s growth following...

Aker Solutions Wins Drilling Equipment Contract

Aker Solutions has received a Letter of Award from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), to supply two drilling equipment packages to the new ‘Cat D’ drilling rigs the yard is building for the rig operator Songa Offshore. Options (if exercised) for two additional units are included. Contract value is undisclosed. The development of...

ITF Invests USD 9 Million in Oil and Gas Technology

ITF is increasing its international footprint by opening two new offices in the Asia-Pacific region to drive new technology solutions to tackle global oil and gas challenges. The organisation is opening bases in Perth and Kuala Lumpur to unite technology developers with its membership of major oil and gas operators and has revealed plans to...

Kvaerner and COOEC Complete Demonstration Platform Module

Kvaerner and COOEC have jointly invested in engineering and fabricating of a demonstration module to document the partners’ combined capabilities for delivering new offshore oil and gas platforms. After the start of the engineering and procurement in January 2011, the fabrication of the module was completed and presented to business partners on 25 August 2011....

BMT Addresses Taiwanese Offshore Wind Farm Risks

BMT Asia Pacific and BMT Nigel Gee have announced completion of a major project supporting the development of Taiwan’s offshore wind ambitions. Commissioned by Taiwanese Government agencies, and working alongside with Wind Prospect Ltd, BMT has assisted in developing practical guidelines to facilitate offshore wind development in an efficient, cost-effective and risk aware manner.  Currently, the...

Tideway’s IFPS Completed First Project

Tideway has completed its activities for the Deep Panuke Gas Development Project. The project took two months and entails a turnover of  EUR 10 million. The company used the new Inclined Fallpipe System (IFPS) for the first time on this project. This technology now renders it possible to operate highly accurately even in the most demanding...

Jack-Up Barge & BARD Group Sign Charter Agreement

Jack-Up Barge has announced signing a multi-year charter agreement with the German BARD Group for Jack-Up Barge’s Self Elevating Platforms JB-115 and JB-117. The contract, announced at the Dry Docks World Graha yard in Batam, Indonesia, on 9 August 2011, is valued at in excess of EUR 100 million. The JB-115 and JB-117 will...

Rolls-Royce Has Won Brazilian Order for Offshore Supply Vessels

Rolls-Royce  has won an order to design and equip two UT 735 SE offshore supply vessels for Brasil Supply. The order is worth GBP 15 million to Rolls-Royce. The contract includes vessel design and an integrated Rolls-Royce equipment system including propulsion, deck machinery, bulk handling and vessel control systems. The vessels will be chartered...

TCO UK Wins Major UKCS Contract

Aberdeen-based TCO In-Well Technologies UK Limited, a provider of well completion technologies to the global oil and gas industry, has been awarded a new contract worth half a million pounds. The contract, which is from an oil major, will involve the provision of completion and intervention services to cover UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) assets. “We are...

WesternGeco Commences 3D Survey in Barents Sea

WesternGeco has announced that it has begun acquisition of the Bjørnøya Phase I “Ice Bear” 3D multiclient survey in the highly prospective West Loppa area of the Barents Sea. Following previous surveys in the area, the Ice Bear survey will extend the existing WesternGeco West Loppa datasets to the North and West. “The study area...

ABS Provides First Approval in Principle for Floating Renewable Energy Plant

ABS has issued its first Approval in Principle (AIP) for a new concept renewable energy design in which a moored spar uses ammonia in a closed-cycle process to produce electrical power for a commercial utility grid. Unlike wind, tidal or solar power the advanced design for this Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) system can...

Five-Year Service Contract for BMT

BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT) has been contracted by Petrobras America to provide support maintenance and repair for the Cascade and Chinook Free Standing Hybrid Riser Tower (FSHR) monitoring system. BMT is a subsidiary of BMT Group, an international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy.  The agreement includes five years of operation to support maintenance and...

Paradigm Flow Solutions Boosts Production with New Technology

Paradigm Flow Solutions has undertaken work which increased production for a supermajor in a North Sea field by over 3,000 barrels of oil per day using a new groundbreaking technology. The Aberdeenshire headquartered company will be revealing how it this summer cleared subsea pipelines that had been blocked for over a decade at the Deepwater...

Recent North Sea Discovery Even Larger Than Expected

Communication between the Aldous and Avaldsnes oil discoveries in the North Sea has now been confirmed. In combination these discoveries may represent an oil structure of between 500 million and 1.2 billion barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. If the upper part of the interval strikes pay dirt, the discovery will be one of the...