Aberdeen-based integrated drilling waste and environmental services company TWMA has announced the appointment of Rob O’Neill as sales director. In this role Mr O’Neill will be responsible for driving the continued global growth of the company, specifically in the target markets of the Americas, Nor
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has received the plan for development and operation (PDO) for the oil and gas discovery 16/1-8 “Luno” in the North Sea. Lundin is the operator for the development. Total recoverable reserves in the discovery have been estimated at 29.1 million cubic metres of oil
Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) was recognized with the Blue Heron Award from the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association (LMOGA) during the association’s annual meeting in New Orleans. Created in 1993, the award recognizes exceptional environmental stewardship in association with oil
Dril-Quip, Inc. announced that Judge Carl J. Barbier, the federal court judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana presiding over the multi-district proceeding In Re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, issued an order on January 20, 2012 granting D
Nine oil companies had purchased the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s seismic data package from Lofoten and Vesterålen by 23 January. The nine oil companies are Statoil, ExxonMobil, Norske Shell, RWE Dea Norge, GDF Suez, Dong Energy, Det norske oljeselskap, Chevron Norge AS and Total E&P Norge AS.
McDermott International, Inc. announced today that its Australian subsidiary has received and signed a letter of award for the Ichthys Gas-condensate Field Development subsea umbilical, riser, flowline (SURF) project by INPEX. The contract value is in the order of magnitude of US$2 billion and is th
DONG Energy annouced that despite the weather, it has been possible to energise the next cable string with eight turbines. Energizing the cable string is a vital part of the commissioning of the turbines, and the eight turbines connected to the string are expected to have first power in near future
Ramboll Oil & Gas recently signed four new exciting contracts. The current demand for Ramboll’s multidisciplinary consultancy to the oil and gas industry has never been greater. The newly signed December contracts involve a rationalisation project, a subsea pipeline FEED study, an environmental deco
Kleven Maritime will carry out an extensive remodeling of the offshore vessel Rem Fortune, from the platform service vessel into the multi-purpose support vessel. The vessel is currently placed at Myklebust Yard in Gursken, where it should be mounted with a 100-ton offshore crane. Reconstruction als
Korea Electronic Power Corporation (KEPCO) announces that it expects to complete its second high-voltage direct current (HVDC) project in April, after five years of construction. The HVDC project will comprise 122 kilometers of submarine cable which will link Jeju and Jindo in South Jeolla Province.
DeepOcean Group Holding AS,an integrated provider of subsea engineering and trenching services, today announced that DeepOcean AS, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group, has been awarded a long-term frame agreement for offshore survey services for Statoil. The four-year frame agreement, plus two one-year
CNOOC Limited said that its parent company, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (“CNOOC”), has reached an agreement with China’s Ministry of Agriculture and ConocoPhillips China Inc. (“COPC”) to resolve fishery compensation issues for Peng Lai 19-3 oil spill incident. Under this agreement, COPC
EvoLogics GmbH, a leading provider of innovative solutions for underwater communication, upgrades its S2C/2/ADCP multiple access system to Version 2.0, adding important features that optimize data retrieval from multiple ADCP instruments. In fall 2010 EvoLogics GmbH came up with a space saving and e
BlueView Technologies, the world leader in compact acoustic imaging and measurement technology, and Ageotec, an Italian Company operating in the field of underwater and oceanographic technologies signed a Systems Integrator Agreement that enables Ageotec to re-sell BlueView 2D and 3D products on Age
