New directors elected at Decom’s first annual meeting
Offshore oil and gas decommissioning forum Decom North Sea (Decom) held its first annual meeting in Aberdeen yesterday and elected seven new directors.
Offshore oil and gas decommissioning forum Decom North Sea (Decom) held its first annual meeting in Aberdeen yesterday and elected seven new directors.
EnCore Oil has announced the result of successful testing operations on the Cladhan appraisal well in the UK northern North Sea.
BP believes compensation claims related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will be less than the £13billion it has put into an independent claims fund.
NEXT month's Subsea Europe conference and exhibition will focus on the issues of integrity and environmental management, particularly in highly sensitive environments such as the Barents Sea and Arctic regions.
A LABOUR leadership contender has warned Aberdeen risks missing out on a green energy windfall unless the UK Government ends the "uncertainty" hanging over the industry.
The Athena field in the Outer Moray Firth is on target to come on stream at the end of the third quarter of next year.
ABERDEEN-BASED Axis Well Technology has announced a record first half.
Dana Petroleum said yesterday its shares were potentially worth more than £30 each as it stiffened its defences against a hostile £1.67billion takeover bid by South Korea's national oil company, KNOC.
North Sea-focused UK oil and gas firm Valiant Petroleum said yesterday it was poised for a transformation if its 50%-owned Viola prospect delivered strong results later this year.
A "complex and interlinked" series of events involving mechanical failures and human judgments led to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, a report by oil company BP said yesterday.
The head of the oil company involved in BP's catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill says he "cares deeply" about the way people work offshore.
A LEADING Scottish businessman said last night that he quit his director's post at a safety equipment group to "protect my reputation" after raising concerns about the way the company was being run.
Scarcely a day passes without the oil and gas industry hitting the headlines in one way or the other.
Aberdeen-based offshore lifting engineering specialist Sparrows said yesterday it had signed a new multimillion-pound contract with oil giant BP.
International industrial-cleaning and waste-management firm Sureclean has announced expansion into the north Africa and Middle East region.
TAQA Bratani, the UK subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi national energy company, said yesterday it was moving forward with its first new field development.
THE drilling company involved in BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill faces a Commons grilling today amid claims that its North Sea workers have faced "bullying" and "intimidation".
A new round of exploration in the Falklands basin is well under way. The first drilling projects commenced in 1998 and new drilling began again in 2010.
AUGUST saw first-half results from both Cairn Energy and Tullow Oil. As usual, the numbers proved to be largely a sideshow, with the market more interested in drilling results.
Oil & Gas UK is working to ensure that decommissioning of the UK's oil&gas infrastructure is carried out in the safest, most efficient and cost-effective manner, with key issues to be debated at a two-day conference next month.
Tony O'Reilly is the CEO of Providence Resources, an Irish independent that has in its portfolio perhaps some of the most promising assets offshore Ireland, including Burren, Dunquin and Spanish Point.
Recent oil finds in the Lake Albert region could soon turn Uganda into a mid-sized oil-producing country. Estimates suggest it may be the largest onshore oilfields complex discovered in sub-Saharan Africa for the past two decades.
THREE University of Aberdeen postgraduate engineering degree programmes have been granted accreditation by leading professional institutions.
Colin Campbell is a gas generation maintenance team leader at Marathon Oil. He has done very well for himself, but why did he choose a career in the North Sea offshore industry?
DO YOUR parents find dusting the house a chore, or dread washing the windows? Imagine keeping dust and grime off objects spread out over an area of 25-50 football fields.