Aker Drilling and Maersk invest in new tonnage
EUROPEAN companies Aker Drilling Offshore Services, of Norway, and Maersk, of Denmark, have each placed valuable orders for new drilling tonnage in the Far East.
EUROPEAN companies Aker Drilling Offshore Services, of Norway, and Maersk, of Denmark, have each placed valuable orders for new drilling tonnage in the Far East.
Norwegian semi-state operator Statoil is planning to build a new generation mobile offshore drilling unit that is tailored to Norwegian Continental Shelf mature field conditions.
FUGRO has acquired TSmarine Group Holdings and its subsidiaries for an undisclosed amount to strengthen its subsea services, with a particular focus on Asia-Pacific and Europe-Africa.
PETROBRAS has ordered the first seven of a total build programme of 28 offshore drilling rigs.
ENSCO has ordered two new ultra-premium harsh environment jack-up rigs from Keppel FELS of Singapore.
AWILCO Drilling is hiring two of its semi-submersibles for multi-well operations in the UK sector of the North Sea, on behalf of Nautical Petroleum and AGR Petroleum.
STATOIL was forced to shut down operations aboard the Deepsea Atlantic semi-submersible drilling rig on February 10, owing to a gas-related incident which forced the crew to muster.
SCOTLAND'S largest-ever offshore wind conference took place at the AECC last month, attracting 400 of the most influential business leaders in oil and gas and renewable energy from across the UK and Europe.
THE TOTAL E&P UK Safety, Health and Environment Awards were held at The Marcliffe Hotel and Spa, Pitfodels, last month.
TWO North Sea chefs with Sodexo won the bronze medal in the live cook-off at the Scottish Chef of the Year competition in Glasgow.
Organisers of the inaugural Unconventional Gas conference held in Aberdeen last week have revealed it will become an annual event.
Rolls-Royce has won a £20million order from Chinese energy giant Sinopec to design and equip a specialist seismic research vessel.
The Bahamas, long-time playground of the rich, fictional British spy James Bond and home to a growing number of corporate tax exiles, may harbour significant oil and gas reserves.
THE Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to launch the Sustainable Operating Practices Initiative for European unconventional gas.
IN A STUDY to evaluate exploration and production (E&P) drilling risks associated with overpressured formations, it was found that dramatically different magnitudes of overpressure existed across 149 deepwater wells in the US Gulf of Mexico Lower Tertiary Wilcox play.
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I visited all the countries in North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, from Morocco to Turkey, last year in the course of a study on the potential for increasing gas exports from the region to the European Union.
There are many worrying things going on. Some won't have escaped your attention because they have been plastered all over our TV screens.
Late last month, qedi, of Aberdeen, was picked up for some £33million by Amec, so securing the firm's long-term future and providing the latter with a strategic expansion tool.
Remember the autonomous, friction-based, self-elevating wind turbine servicing concept called Orangutan?
Cairo, February 2011 - a well-known evacuation provider, which I know works with many companies in Aberdeen, advises a client "we don't evacuate from Cairo".
Swire Oilfield Services has set the objective of growing its annual turnover from £125million to £250million over the four years to 2014.
With front-end engineering and design (FEED) just started or about to get under way, Statoil is mulling Aberdeen as the centre to run itsMariner/Bressay heavy oil projects in the UK North Sea.
Aker Solutions, which accounts for at least 1,500 jobs in Aberdeen and Stockton, said last month that has emerged successfully from the "financial turmoil" of recent years.
With no less than 62 E&A wells planned on the UK Continental Shelf for this year, coupled with the possibility of the most aggressive development drilling programme for some years, 2011 appears to be shaping up nicely for the drilling community.