Chancellor George Osborne and Business Secretary Vince Cable will today welcome substantial new investment in the UK as international delegates from the world’s oil and gas companies meet at the British Business Embassy in London. Up to 4,000 UK jobs will be supported by the GDF SUEZ- operated Cygnu
Wood Group Kenny’s subsea and pipeline business J P Kenny has recently been awarded a $7.5 million contract by Apache North Sea Limited to provide subsea engineering services. The contract runs initially for 3 years with further options beyond this timescale. The agreement covers all of Apache’s Nor
The new Kongsberg Offshore Vessel Simulator – Deck Operator Trainer (seismic streamer function) and the Kongsberg Evotec Bulk Hose Securing Unit have both been nominated for the ONS Innovation Awards, the winners of which will be announced during ONS 2012 at a special innovation lunch on Wednesday 2
GDF SUEZ as operator with partners Centrica and Bayerngas have announced sanctioning of the £1.4 billion ( $2.18 billion) Cygnus project to develop the sixth largest gas field in the UK Southern North Sea. GDF SUEZ (38.75%) will operate the field with partners Centrica (48.75%) and Bayerngas (12.5%)
Fugro GEOS has obtained an extension of its longest continuous contract.
KBR announced yesterday that it has been awarded a FEED contract to perform work for the topsides and hull associated with a new-build, double-sided, single-bottom hull Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The FPSO will be located offshore Angola and FEED is scheduled to start i
McDermott International, Inc. has been awarded a contract by Williams Partners L.P. for transportation and installation services for a Spar hull in the Gulf of Mexico. The value of the contract is included in McDermott’s second quarter 2012 backlog. McDermott will transport and install the Gulfstar
Significant global interest from wind turbine manufacturers to deploy at a cutting edge offshore wind demonstration centre, off Aberdeen, was confirmed today with the scheme’s backers announcing that they had signed working agreements with six potential suppliers. As a result of these Memoranda of U
AMEC, an international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a detailed design contract for GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd’s Cygnus gas field development, the UK North Sea’s largest gas discovery in the last 25 years. The detail design contract follows on from the FEED work and is valued
KBR announced that it has been awarded a FEED contract to perform work for the topsides and hull associated with a new-build, double-sided, single-bottom hull Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The FPSO will be located offshore Angola and FEED is scheduled to start immediately
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that it has commenced the second well in its 2012 Malaysian drilling campaign with the spud of Berangan 1 exploration well in SB303 Block, offshore Sabah, Malaysia. The well will target hydrocarbons in mid-Miocene aged sands in a faulted anticline in
Canadian Helicopters Group Inc. , an international provider of helicopter transportation and related support services, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Helicopters (NZ) Limited (“HNZ”) has entered into an offshore oil and gas helicopter support contract with Shell Global Solutions Int
Hollund Industrial Marine, Inc. announced that the company has executed a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) formalizing Hollund’s exclusive right to manage and operate a patented underwater robotic resource technology. Part of Hollund’s pursuit of this license was to enhance the potential to acquire
McDermott International, Inc. announced yesterday that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a contract by Williams Partners L.P. for transportation and installation services for a Spar hull in the Gulf of Mexico. The value of the contract is included in McDermott’s second quarter 2012 backlog. M
