European business ‘robust’ despite steep drop in profits for Taqa
Taqa’s North Sea operation remained “robust” in the first quarter of the year, despite the wider oil firm experiencing a heavy dip in profits.
Taqa’s North Sea operation remained “robust” in the first quarter of the year, despite the wider oil firm experiencing a heavy dip in profits.
For dozens of north-east delegates attending this year’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, the trip was the place to tout for international business and make invaluable contacts.
Occidental Petroleum Corp. will move forward with its $38 billion takeover of Anadarko Petroleum Corp., the oil industry’s biggest deal in at least four years, after Chevron Corp. bowed out of the bidding.
It has been a busy three years for integrity management firm Imrandd.
Expertise in the North Sea oil and gas industry is abundant and it’s easy to see why. As a complex sector that has evolved and fine-tuned itself over the last 50 years, it continues to meet the bulk (almost 60%) of UK oil and gas demand and support – that’s more than 280,000 jobs in the supply chain.
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Plant Integrity Management’s (PIM’s) second annual integrity management event took place on March 28 at the Carmelite Hotel, Aberdeen.
Scour the marketplace and it is becoming increasingly hard to find new tonnage being built for offshore oil and gas services.
American author Alan Cohen said: “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
Westwood Global Energy reports that there were three active exploration wells at the time of writing(April 30).
Chevron Corp. is abandoning its $33 billion offer for oil driller Anadarko Petroleum Corp., the culmination of a month-long bidding war in which Occidental Petroleum Corp. prevailed over a rival five times its size.
Jimmy Milne has never forgotten the agony of losing first wife Jill to cancer when his daughters were aged just eight and three.
Offshore accommodation vessel owner Prosafe reported a loss for the start of the year amid “modest” tendering activity.
The German government has made a formal objection to Shell’s plans to decommission the Brent field in the North Sea.
Aberdeen energy services firm Wood has appointed a 40-year veteran of the oil and gas industry as its new chairman.
Aberdeen-headquartered energy services firm Wood has won a £767.8million contract to help decommission the UK’s most complex nuclear site.
UK energy service companies have to be able to “walk and chew gum” if the industry’s Vision 2035 scenario is to be achieved, a boss at the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) says.
We’ve been here before, at least in the context of the North Sea oil and gas industry.
Procurement policy “barriers” put up by operators are stifling technology development among SMEs, an oil and gas industry entrepreneur said.
A north-east firm that was badly hit by the oil and gas downturn is flourishing four years on thanks to a £10 million investment from the Balmoral Group.
“There’s a difference between the way grass grows and the way a tree grows,” says Pol Palacios.
Westwood Global Energy reports that at the end of April, three exploration wells were active, with two in the West of Shetlands and one in the Central North Sea.
The engineers of the future went head-to-head at Robert Gordon University (RGU) last month when they put underwater robots, which they designed and built, to the test as part of an annual competition.
Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s corporate jet has crossed the Atlantic for the second time in two weeks, landing in the Netherlands, according to flight-tracking data and people familiar with the matter.