UK based oil and gas engineering and fabrication contractor OGN Group is the new name for former SLP Production after it emerged from a financial crisis. One of the company’s subsidiaries SLP Engineering went into administration in November 2009, and that entity based in Lowestoft was bought by a su
Statoil will together with Talisman Energy acquire 97,000 net acres of shale resources in Texas. shale formation Eagle Ford is located in Southwest Texas, Statoil reports. The acquisition costs US$ 1.325 billion.
“This is a great occasion for Cunard Line and a great occasion for Britain,” said Peter Shanks, president and managing director of Cunard Line, a day ahead of the christening of the new 90,900-ton, 2,068-passenger Queen Elizabeth by Her Majesty The Queen.
Aluminium boat builder Alnmaritec has announced the successful launch of its one-hundredth vessel. ‘Endurance’ was launched in August of this year nearly a century after Shackleton’s original boat and it is has been built for duties in windfarm maintenance support roles.
United States: The Port of San Francisco has became the first Californian port, and one of only a handful of ports in the world, to provide shoreside electrical power for cruise ships while at berth.
First gas began to flow on 10 October through the Gjøa Gas Pipe (GGP) tying this Norwegian North Sea field and its Vega satellite to Britain’s Far North Liquids and Associated Gas System (Flags). The 28-inch line runs for 130 kilometres from Gjøa to the tie-in point with the Shell-operated Flags-pip
IHC Dredgers has commissioned Siemens Industry Solutions in The Hague, the Netherlands, to provide the electrical installation on board DEME’s cutter suction dredger Ambiorix – under construction at the Hardinxveld-Giessendam yard. Apart from the electrical components, to be delivered to the yard in
The port locations Büsum, Brunsbüttel, Dagebüll, Helgoland, Husum, Rendsburg-Osterrönfeld, Wyk / Foehr, Hörnum and List have agreed to have a close cooperation with the focus on offshore wind farm logistics. To meet the increasing demands of future offshore wind farms in the North Sea, economists an
Spectrum has been awarded a proprietary contract to acquire 150 sq kms of 3D seismic data in shallow water off the east coast of Trinidad. The 3D survey is located in acreage immediately adjacent to the 3D contract which was recently completed by GGS Atlantic. The latest award ensures continuation o
Jan De Nul Group is pleased to inform that on September 28th a contract was signed with the Peruvian Government for the further deepening of the access channel to the port of Callao. The scope of works consists in deepening the port from current 14 meters to 16 meters, converting Callao in one of th
W&T Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: WTI) announced today that the Company will be presenting at the 2010 IPAA Oil & Gas Investment Symposium to be held on October 12-14, 2010 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Tracy Krohn, W&T Offshore’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to present on Wedn
The Rooster EI 28 Well #6 encountered 60’ of high quality pay in two zones of stacked Cib Carst reservoir sands. Pressure data indicates that these zones are part of the same accumulations. The Well #6 was drilled to a total depth of 10,950’ in 15 feet of water. Initial production from the lower Cib
Although the British government is about to begin an aggressive series of budget cuts in order to help the moribund national economy recover from the ongoing financial crisis, its seems foolish to remove port infrastructure funding destined to spur even greater growth in the lucrative offshore wind
GSP Bigfoot 1 has completed the installation of the 10-in and 6-in pipeline at Galata Platform,on the Bulgarian continental shelf of the Black Sea. According to the contract with Melrose Resources, the technical vessel installed 8.5 kilometers of 6-inch diameter pipeline, 14.5 kilometers of 10-inch
