Energy service company opens training ‘academy’
Balmoral Offshore Engineering (BOE) opened its own training "academy" yesterday, saying it was an essential asset because of an endemic skills shortage in the oil and gas industry.
Balmoral Offshore Engineering (BOE) opened its own training "academy" yesterday, saying it was an essential asset because of an endemic skills shortage in the oil and gas industry.
Oil and gas installations across the North Sea are signing up for a new initiative which aims to create a healthier offshore workforce.
Shell has earmarked Dutch firm SBM Offshore for the supply and management of a floating production platform for its Fram field development in the UK North Sea, it was announced yesterday.
Design and engineering consultant W.S. Atkins said yesterday the oil and gas sector played a key role in its plans for future growth.
Oil service company Sureclean welcomed 60 visitors to its site at Whitecairns, Aberdeenshire, for its latest open day.
Norwegian oil and gas firm Bridge Energy said today it was to buy a stake in the UK North Sea Boa field from OMV (UK) in a deal worth £11.6million.
The French government has put a stop to offshore drilling, including off French Guiana, in order to review the way permits are issued.
The announcement that Cairn Energy will buy Nautical Petroleum is good news for an already buoyant North Sea, coming hot on the heals of Cairn's acquisition of Agora Oil and Gas.
A strike in Norway by 114 Baker Hughes employees has meant a rig working for Centrica in the Norwegian Sea may stop work today.
Heavy oil explorer Xcite Energy said yesterday drilling on its Bentley field had found an additional oil column.
Apache North Sea has started drilling on the northern North Sea Tryfan prospect, it was announced today.
Oil and gas explorer Antrim Energy said today it is looking at a Spar floating oil platform development of the central North Sea Fyne field and potentially other fields in the area.
Scottish company Dron and Dickson (D&D), has opened a base in Dubai.
When the first offshore workers started producing oil on Kittiwake in 1990 they could not have expected their successors to still be on the platform more than 20 years later.
Aberdeen-based energy service firm Wood Group today announced a string of contracts worth a total of more than £12million.
Newly-listed exploration firm Fastnet Oil and Gas said today it had been awarded two licensing options covering areas of the Celtic Sea offshore Ireland.
The north-east energy industry will drive a rise in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity throughout Scotland over the coming year, according to a new survey.
Energy service firm 3sun Group said yesterday its inspection division had won £1million of work in the six months since it was launched.
Oil field engineering group Aker Solutions said yesterday it would invest £4million in its UK offshore maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) division.
A shortage of skilled workers and regulatory differences around the world are among the biggest challenges facing the global energy industry, according to GL Noble Denton. The technical service provider to the oil and gas sector said yesterday its conclusion was based on views expressed at a gathering of energy sector bosses in Houston.
More than 120 staff are now back working on oil and gas major Total's Elgin platform in the North Sea, the operator said last night.
Aberdeen-based oil field service company Reservoir Group has rebranded all its coring businesses as Corpro.
A man has died after being injured on a boat anchored a mile off Aberdeen.
Prospects potentially similar to the giant Wytch Farm oil field in southern England are to be explored by Wessex Exploration after it signed a licence agreement.
Aberdeen was the only major UK city to create more businesses than it lost when the UK emerged from recession in 2010, said national accounting group UHY Hacker Young. The Granite City is reported to have created a net figure of 3.7 new businesses per 10,000 people in 2010.