OHM agrees to offload CSEM data business
Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping said yesterday it had agreed to sell its marine controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) data-acquisition business.
Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping said yesterday it had agreed to sell its marine controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) data-acquisition business.
NORTH-EAST vessel-sharing organisation Aberdeen Marine Logistics Alliance (Amla) said yesterday it was on course to record more than £1.5million of savings for its members in 2010 after its operations doubled in frequency during the first half of this year.
Scottish oil exploration company Cairn Energy has struck oil near Greenland, becoming the first company to make a find in the area.
Greenpeace protesters boarded a drilling ship yesterday to try to stop it heading for a deep water well in the North Sea.
Many Scottish companies are cautious about investing in growth in this uncertain financial environment.
Shares in Nautical Petroleum were sent soaring nearly 40% yesterday after it said it had found a substantial column of oil in a sidetrack well drilled on the Kraken field.
AUBIN, a supplier of specialist chemicals to the oil and gas industry, has completed a £250,000 investment in its laboratory, testing operation and equipment at its UK headquarters in Ellon.
Opito International, the Aberdeen-based skills, learning and workforce-development body, has launched a major study to help it to deliver common training standards in the global oil and gas industry.
Industrial service group Hertel has doubled its Aberdeen workforce overnight after buying Granite City firm Quest Worldwide from its bosses and taking on all 50 workers.
A NEW Craig Group vessel was introduced yesterday at Aberdeen harbour as the global shipping and energy service firm named one of the last vessels of 16 in an eight-year £130million investment programme.
GLOBAL project management training company 20/20 Business Insight has invested £250,000 in a new centre in Aberdeen.
A leaking well which spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico was finally sealed yesterday, American officials said.
A NEW north-east firm is today unveiling its completion technology equipment for the oil and gas industry.
Oil service company TAM International North Sea officially opened its new £1.8million Aberdeen base yesterday.
TAQA Bratani, the UK subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi national energy company, announced an acquisition yesterday which will give a significant boost to its North Sea production.
More than 300 people attended yesterday's first Techno Day held by oil service group Baker Hughes at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
Offshore giant BP insisted last night that deep-water drilling in the huge oil and gas fields west of Shetland would be less risky than similar exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP made a strong defence of its North Sea safety record yesterday after its training of offshore workers came under attack.
The US government's incident commander for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill said yesterday that BP's blown-out well is expected to be permanently sealed and declared dead by Sunday, nearly five months after the rig explosion that triggered the disaster.
OILFIELD equipment specialist Titan Torque Services has won a three-year contract to support UK North Sea operations of Premier Oil.
GETTING the most from mature fields and new development frontiers in the North Sea is the focus of a north-east event today.
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.