UPB buoyed up after striking big North Sea deal
An Aberdeenshire firm is on the verge of launching the world's first floating unmanned oil platform system in the North Sea after striking a deal with an engineering giant.
An Aberdeenshire firm is on the verge of launching the world's first floating unmanned oil platform system in the North Sea after striking a deal with an engineering giant.
A north-east mechanical engineering firm has secured a funding package worth £90million as it looks to recruit an extra 700 people this year.
IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the pipelaying vessel Sapura Diamante on schedule at the company's shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands.
Northern Marine's role at the outset was to provide management services to its parent, this specialisation was quickly offered to an independent client base with Technip and other players in the subsea and offshore industry becoming key clients.
Semi state-owned Brazilian operator Petrobras has awarded the fitting out of production ships P-75 and P-77. They are to be fitted with process systems by the Rig Consortium, which is formed by Queiroz Galvao, Camargo Correa, and IESA.
Just four E&A wells are active on the UK Continental Shelf, a drop of two since last reported although the imminent re-entry of Total's Spinnaker exploration well, 206/4a-3 will bring the tally up to five.
The ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are - along with China and India - shifting the centre of gravity of the global energy system to Asia
Aberdeen-based oilfield services group Expro has landed a clutch of new burner boom deals with rig builders Keppel worth around $20million.
Oil giant Chevron has announced a management reshuffle after making changes to its upstream and midstream operations.
Fears of a leak on the Statfjord B North Sea field have been raised after a bump appeared on the seabed.
Taqa has been given the go-ahead for the first $300million development of Kurdistan's Atrush oil project
North Sea operator Adriatic Oil has confirmed it plans to list on the AIM as it looks to raise new funds for its exploration projects.
Algerian state oil firm Sonatrach is to pre-empt a planned farm-out of the Isarene field by partner Petroceltic.
Engineering firm Plexus has landed a £750,000 deal to provide wellhead equipment services for Centrica on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Unions are calling for an emergency meeting and parliamentary debate in a bid to avert strikes at an oil refinery and petrochemical site in Scotland.
Energy service firm Aker Solutions has secured the contract for the first phase of decommissioning the Murchison platform in the North Sea.
US aerospace, defence, security and advanced technology giant Lockheed Martin aims to grab a bigger share of the spoils from Scotland’s buoyant oil and gas industry.
The world has large potential technical recoverable resources of tight oil possibly several times those of North America, according to a new geological study by global analytics firm IHS.
Despite the current UK Continental Shelf new projects boom, together with a significant number of life-extension projects under way, in the pipeline or being contemplated, momentum is gathering pace on the decommissioning front.
Under a Repsol Sinopec contract, Fugro is providing geophysical, geotechnical and metocean services to support the development of block BM-C-33 offshore Brasil and its associated export infrastructure.
Bill Morrice's remit as a managing director is to lead Technip's huge presence in the UK, which also embraces all of Denmark and West of Ireland.
Northern Offshore Services has taken delivery of its first Damen Twin Axe, just weeks after the order was placed in August.
National Grid NSN Link and Statnett have issued a call for expressions of Interest for their subsea electricity interconnector project planned to link the UK and Norway.
US drilling contractor Noble Corporation has bagged a contract for its new-build Noble Houston Colbert jack-up rig to drill offshore Argentina for Total.
Ensco has taken delivery of its latest advanced-capability, ultra-deepwater drillship, the Ensco DS-7 from Samsung of South Korea.