Peterson SBS upgrades Aberdeen Harbour site
Oil service firm Peterson SBS has revealed plans to invest £1.5million in its operations at Aberdeen Harbour to meet increasing demand from offshore clients.
Oil service firm Peterson SBS has revealed plans to invest £1.5million in its operations at Aberdeen Harbour to meet increasing demand from offshore clients.
Scandinavian oil firm Statoil said today it had made its second major discovery in the Barents in nine months. opening up the region as a new core area.
Falklands explorer Rockhopper said today its drilling campaign in the remote region had now ended.
Lukoil is planning to invest $16billion in the development of its concessions in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea.
Shell has secured a crucial approval from the US government for its long-delayed plan to drill in the Chuckchi Sea offshore Alaska.
Subsea specialist Flexlife has completed high levels of subsea production riser-pipe annulus testing work during 2011, including its first work off Africa.
Aberdeen Drilling Consultants has rebranded 26 years after it was set up to provide rig inspection services.
Iranian officials have declared that huge new reserves of gas have been discovered in the "Iranian sector" of the Caspian Sea. Details are minimal at this stage, but they say that the find is at least 50trillion cu ft.
Seadrill has won an eight-well, $127million drilling contract with Hess offshore Hess Equatorial Guinea. The Norwegian contractor's rig West Esperanza is expected to be on contract for a minimum of 18 months.
Anadarko expects to complete its Lagosta-2 appraisal well on its operated Mozambique Offshore Area 1 block (Rovuma Area 1) around the end of this month. The well is being drilled with the drillship Belford Dolphin at a location about 7.4km north of the Lagosta-1 well-site.
MPs have launched an inquiry into what the UK Government can do to protect the Arctic from over-exploitation, as the retreating ice opens the region up for oil and gas drilling.
NOMINATIONS are being sought for the 2012 UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards.
ABERDEEN firm Hydrasun said yesterday it was to create up to 100 jobs over the coming year amid growing demand for its specialist oilfield services.
WE LIVE in strange, even desperate times and yet the energy industry is prospering. Anecdotally, while it remains next to impossible to borrow sensibly from banks although they would deny this, the healthy energy sector has other ways of financing its ambitions, notably via private equity.
REGARDED widely as the world's number one energy analyst, Daniel Yergin's latest tome, The Quest, debuted at No.4 on the New York Times non-fiction best-sellers list in early October last year.
Decom North Sea (DNS), the offshore oil and gas decommissioning forum, is driving forward an initiative aimed at developing standard procedures for infrastructure removal projects.
One of the biggest energy events in Scandinavia - Offshore Northern Seas (ONS), the sister event to Offshore Europe - takes place this year.
Aker Solutions has picked up a £22.6million contract with Marathon Oil for a subsea production system for the Bøyla project on the Norwegian continental shelf.
Offshore safety bosses in Norway today criticised BP's Norwegian North Sea management following an investigation into on the Valhall platform.
Fast-growing Scottish mechanical engineering group EnerMech has announced further expansion south of the border.
THE UK Government is planning a major strategic energy conference to coincide with the Olympic Games.
Rock Solid Images (RSI) said today work to turn the company around was paying off with a new £705,000 contract.
It is not just Norway's offshore market that is attracting UK firms - Norwegian firms are also looking to the UK.
BP wants contractor Halliburton to pay all of its billions of pounds of costs for the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico catastrophe.
A SURVEY by NOF Energy, the business support organisation for the oil, gas, nuclear and offshore renewable-energy sectors, has found a buoyant mood within the industry.