Firm opens Brazil office
Aberdeen company ffA (Foster Findlay Associates) has expanded its global business into Brazil.
Aberdeen company ffA (Foster Findlay Associates) has expanded its global business into Brazil.
Two new deals for Asco are expected to create up to 14 jobs at the Aberdeen-based oil and gas logistics firm next year.
Already soaring oil and gas spending is set to soar by a third to more than $1.6trillion over the next four years, says upstream analysts IHS.
With further large gas discoveries offshore Mozambique and Tanzania, it would appear that East Africa is on track to becoming a major hydrocarbons province in its own right.
Petrobras continues to drive the floating production market by signing for the conversion of four further very large crude carriers into new production, storage, and offloading vessels at a cost of $1.7billion.
Aberdeen Drilling School had its busiest month in its 30-year history this year and the demand for training does not look set to subside.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Fred Olsen Energy . . . presumed to be Dolphin . . . has entered into a turnkey contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries for the building of a harsh environment ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig with scheduled delivery in March 2015.
In April this year, Premier Oil was given clearance by the Department of Energy & Climate Change to develop the West of Shetland Solan oilfield.
In UK waters, 10 mobile units are currently employed on E&A drilling operations - exploration wells, including a single sidetrack, account for three of these while seven appraisal wells including two sidetracks are active.
Big questions are being asked at the moment about how competency should be defined within the oil and gas industry.
Since 2000, macroeconomic stability and growth potential in the energy sector have contributed to investors' increasing willingness to invest in Kazakhstan according to Ernst & Young's second "Attractiveness Survey" of this Caspian state.
We probably all have hobbies or special interests. My elder daughter often berates me for the amount of time in my life I have spent watching football, either live or on television. Sadly, that must add up to years' despite my being an Inverness Caley Thistle and Scotland supporter.
It's only a few months since I talked in this column about shale gas around the world but already there have been some significant further developments.
With strong historical, linguistic and constitutional ties to the UK, a number of countries on the African continent offer lucrative opportunities for Scottish businesses with international growth ambitions.
Aberdeen-based Xodus Group set up an engineering operation in Nigeria last year and has already enjoyed considerable success in the region.
Statoil is pouring an estimated $1.56billion into chartering three light well intervention (LWI) vessels from Island Offshore Management and Eide Marine Services for services aimed at increasing recovery from approximately 500 Statoil-operated subsea wells on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Petrofac Training Services (PTS) and Raytheon have developed Hi-Con survival training for the Johnson Space Center site.
Start up on the ConocoPhillips-operated central North Sea Jasmine field is now not expected until 2013.
Lundin has contracted with Marine Accurate Well (Maracc) to carry out a 12-well drilling campaign based on the new-build semi-submersible drilling rig Island Innovator. A further 3-4 wells are on option.
This summer, a hovercraft will set out on a research voyage from Svalbard to the North Pole in the first and northernmost polar expedition undertaken by such technology.
The latest attempt to find oil and gas offshore Cuba has drawn a blank . . . at least so far.
Chariot has reported a disappointing exploration well offshore Namibia, while an appraisal drilled by Kosmos on Ghana's West Cape Three Points block has failed to produce commercially viable results.
Hughes has appointed Lynn L. Elsenhans, former chairman, president and CEO of Sunoco to its board. Elsenhans will serve on the audit/ethics and governance committees for the global services group. With her appointment, the board now has 13 directors.
Petrofac Facilities Management Asia-Pacific has been awarded a $220million contract by the Petronas Carigali subsidiary of Petrolam Nasional (Petronas), the Malaysian national oil company, for the refurbishment of the Bekok-C platform on block PM9 in the southeastern part of the Malay basin.
Coastline Surveys has completed a pre-decommissioning environmental survey on behalf of Energy Resource Technology (UK), a division of Helix.