BPZ Energy , an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, announced today that Mr. Stephen R. Brand and Ms. Jerelyn Eagan have accepted positions as Independent Directors. Their appointments are effective immediately. Mr. Brand has extensive experience in the oil and gas business,
STX Finland Rauma Shipyard delivered a polar supply and research vessel to the South African government’s Department of Environmental Affairs on April 4th. The vessel named S.A. Agulhas II is a multipurpose vessel, and can operate as a supply, research and passenger vessel, as well as an icebreaker,
Government has launched its eagerly awaited £20 million Marine Energy Array Demonstrator scheme (MEAD). This scheme will support up to 2 pre-commercial projects to demonstrate the operation of wave and/or tidal devices in array formation over a period of time. Organisations across the UK will be abl
Singapore based Ezion Holdings Limited has secured an $80 million charter contract over a 4 year period to provide a Service Rig to be used by a national oil major to support its oil & gas activities in Central America. While Ezion doesn’t provide the name of the customer, some sources say that the
The vessel Jumbo Javelin, which will assemble the transition pieces for Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, has just started mobilisation in Rotterdam and is expected to be calling at Aalborg Harbour in mid-April. At the same time, the water temperature is now above the 5 degrees Celsius required for the cas
SMD has announced its participation on this year’s Subsea Power Cables conference on the 25th and 26th of April at London’s Royal Garden Hotel. Paul Davison, SMD’s trenching business stream manager will be speaking on the advantages and disadvantages of technologies available for cable protection. M
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, today announced that the Clough AMEC joint venture has been awarded a contract to provide maintenance support to the 1.3 billion cubic metre per year onshore gas treatment plant and the offshore unmanned wellhead platform for Eni’s
North Star Shipping has scooped a prestigious international award from one of the world’s leading health and safety training, advisory and audit bodies. Following rigorous assessment by an independent adjudication panel the British Safety Council has bestowed its esteemed International Safety Award
Sevan Drilling ASA, an international drilling contractor specializing in the ultra deepwater (UDW) segment provides fleet update for March 2012. Sevan Driller: Sevan Driller had a technical uptime of 95.6 % in March 2012. Sevan Brasil: Sevan Brasil was loaded onto the heavy-lifter Mighty Servant 1 a
Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) has charged the owner of the cargo vessel Rena, following the ship’s grounding on Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga on 5 October. Greece-based Daina Shipping Co has been charged under section 338 (1B) and 15(B) of the Resource Management Act 1991, which relates to the “discharge
Subsea pressure equipment specialist Subsea Technologies Limited (STL) has been awarded UK patents for its Xtreme Release (XR) and Stackable Lightweight Intervention (SLIC) Connectors. Both the XR and SLIC connectors have been well received by the oil and gas industry. The first XR Connector has bee
Bayfield Energy, an independent oil and gas exploration and production group with key assets in Trinidad and Tobago, has announced the spud of the second well in its exploration and appraisal programme in the offshore Galeota Licence Area, designated EG7. The well spudded on 4 April 2012 and is bein
The latest research from Renewable UK, the leading renewable energy trade association in the UK, has revealed that approximately 10,000 jobs could be created in the wave and tidal industry within the next eight years. The study also highlighted the current dearth of talent in the renewable energy se
WHL Energy Ltd, an ASX listed oil and gas company, has resolved to raise up to approximately $7.940 million through the placement of up to 180,450,000 ordinary shares at 4.4 cents per share to Australian and International institutions along with sophisticated and professional investors (“the Placeme
