The world’s largest subsea engineering and project management company, Wood Group Kenny, has been awarded the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and related project management support activities for the BG Norge AS, Jordbaer field development. The proposed field development, located in the North Ta
MODEC announced that Petrobras, through its wholly owned subsidiary PNBV, on behalf of Consortium BM-S-9, has signed a letter of intent for the supply, respectively, charter, and operations of a Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for the BM-S-9 (Guara) Block in the giant “pr
Norway: Wartsila Signs Extensive Service Agreement with Eidesvik
Leading international oilfield service company Expro announces today that it has secured 10 subsea contracts in its Europe CIS region for work in 2010 and 2011. More than $10million worth of new subsea business has been secured in the central North Sea and Norway with companies including Premier Oil
The board of directors of Ackermans & van Haaren NV announces that the consolidated net result (group share) for the first half of 2010 increased by 46% (compared to the same period in the previous year) to 73.5 million euros. • Contracting, dredging and concessions: increase of turnover (+37%) and
The Nomination committee in Statoil is recommending to the company’s corporate assembly to elect Lady Barbara Judge and Bjørn Tore Godal as new members of Statoil’s board of directors. The Nomination committee is recommending the corporate assembly to re-elect Svein Rennemo (chair of the board), Mar
Sasol announces the assignment of participating interests in the Sofala and M-10 licenses offshore Mozambique to Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH). Yesterday Sasol, through Sasol Petroleum International Pty Limited (SPI), the wholly owned upstream oil and gas subsidiary of Sasol Limited, and
AVEVA one of the world’s leading providers of engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries, today announced the opening of a new oil and gas Centre of Excellence for Operations Integrity Management (OIM) in Stavanger, Norway. Addressing the compl
Offshore foundation company Seatower have appointed Trond Kjetil Nodberg as new Vice President of Marine Operations. Nodberg comes from a position of Vice President at Aker Marine Contractors. Oslo-based Seatower is the company behind the Cranefree concept for offshore wind, which features self-inst
In a conference room at the Hilton hotel near Hobby Airport, a panel of federal investigators asked question after question after question. (myfoxhouston) [mappress] Source: myfoxhouston, August 24 , 2010;
DONG Energy has sold 15% of the Svane and Solsort licences (4/98 and 3/09) in the Danish sector of the North Sea to VNG Danmark ApS. DONG Energy is reducing its licence interests as part of its portfolio optimisation. An appraisal drilling of the Svane field carried out in 2001 by the then operator
The Belgian dredging, marine engineering and environmental Group DEME, has been awarded a contract for dredging, transport over a distance of 120 km. and reclamation works to prepare the Imeretinskaya Lowland area at Sochi for construction of the Olympic village for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Th
Aker Solutions, through its subsidiary in Malaysia – Aker Process Systems Asia Pacific (APSAP), has been awarded two subsea contracts from PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PETRONAS Carigali). The first is a work order to supply subsea production system and services for the Kanowit field, while the second
BP, which has transitioned its individual and business claims program to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF), said today it made claim payments of nearly $400 million during the 16 weeks it managed claims related to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP noted the following claims activity since
