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Odfjell Technology delivers rigless P&A unit to Norwegian onshore geothermal project

Odfjell Technology delivers rigless P&A unit to Norwegian onshore geothermal project   Odfjell Technology, an integrated supplier of offshore drilling and well operations, well service equipment including project and engineering services, has successfully deployed its innovative rigless plug and abandonment (P&A) unit for a geothermal pilot project in Tromsø, Norway. The downhole conditions for further testing and development of a groundbreaking underground heat stor...

Harbour Energy Taps Expro for P&A Campaign in UK Continental Shelf

Harbour Energy Taps Expro for P&A Campaign in UK Continental Shelf The multiyear, $20 million-plus contract is for a well abandonment campaign in the Balmoral area in the UK central North Sea.   The UK’s largest oil and gas producer Harbour Energy awarded energy services provider Expro a new contract for a well abandonment campaign as part of a decommissioning project on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). The multiyear contract will use Expro’s Subsea Well Access...

Doqaru publishes its 2nd Annual Report - “The State of Sales Skills in UK SMEs”

Doqaru publishes its 2nd Annual Report - “The State of Sales Skills in UK SMEs”   In today’s economy, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly challenged with managing costs as they try to maintain their sales teams and reach their sales targets. So, how are these SME’s identifying and nurturing the sales skills when hiring and retaining salespeople? Aberdeen-based Sales Enablement Consultancy, Doqaru Limited, has launched its 2nd annua...

Subsea7 confirms major contract offshore Türkiye

Subsea7 confirms major contract offshore Türkiye   Subsea 7 S.A. today confirmed the award of a major1 contract by Turkish Petroleum for the second phase of the Sakarya field development offshore Türkiye in the Black Sea. The award for this two-phase subsea development was announced in redacted form on 12 May 2023. The first phase has been recorded in the backlog in the second quarter of 2023 and the second phase, expected in 2024, remains subject to sanction by the clien...

Pipeline isolation experts STATS sign exclusive deal with Malaysia’s ambitious EPOMS group

Pipeline isolation experts STATS sign exclusive deal  with Malaysia’s ambitious EPOMS group   Pipeline engineering specialist STATS Group (STATS) has signed an exclusive supply agreement for its products and services with Malaysia’s E&P O&M Services Sdn Bhd (EPOMS). EPOMS provides integrated frontline operations and maintenance services for oil and gas platforms, floating facilities, associated flowlines and pipelines in Malaysia. The strategic agreement...

Salamander signs exclusivity agreement for Scottish floating wind lease

Salamander signs exclusivity agreement for Scottish floating wind lease   Salamander, a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7, has signed an exclusivity agreement as part of Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round. The 100 MW Salamander floating offshore wind project, located 35km off Peterhead, is designed to provide Scotland and its supply chain with an early opportunity to deliver floating offshore wind...

AI project to supercharge hydrogen production in Scotland

AI project to supercharge hydrogen production in Scotland   A new project aims to use artificial intelligence to supercharge hydrogen production in Scotland, helping the country meet its net zero targets and powering thousands more homes and businesses each year. Computer scientists at the University of Aberdeen and Aberdeen-based software company Intelligent Plant will use explainable AI (XAI) to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) to tackle shortfalls in production and help S...

OPEC chief says underinvestment in oil, gas sector could trigger market volatility

OPEC chief says underinvestment in oil, gas sector could trigger market volatility   OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais said on Monday that underinvesting in the oil and gas sector could cause market volatility in the long term and imperil growth. He also said the world needs to focus on reducing green house gas emissions rather than replacing one form of energy with another, stressing that major investments were needed in all energy sectors. “That is the truth that n...

Mad Dog Phase 2 Project, Gulf of Mexico

Mad Dog Phase 2 Project, Gulf of Mexico   The Mad Dog Phase 2 project involved the development of southern and southwestern extension of the Mad Dog Field in Gulf of Mexico. Mad Dog project is operated by BP with 60.5% interest. Other partners include Woodside Energy (23.9%) and Chevron USA-affiliate Union Oil Company of California (15.6%). BP reached a final investment decision (FID) for the development of the Mad Dog Phase 2 in December 2016. The project began production in...

Leading authorities on cybersecurity unveiled as keynote speakers for Aberdeen event

Leading authorities on cybersecurity unveiled as keynote speakers for Aberdeen event   A leading international organisation which sets the standard for automation has unveiled two of America’s leading authorities on cybersecurity as keynote speakers at an event which will take place in Aberdeen. The International Society for Automation (ISA) has unveiled plans to host its first ever in-person event in the UK on May 31 and June 1 with Aberdeen, Scotland picked as the launch ve...

Announcement of dividend per share in NOK for fourth quarter 2022

Announcement of dividend per share in NOK for fourth quarter 2022   Equinor announced on 8 February 2023 an ordinary dividend per share of USD 0.30 and an extraordinary dividend per share of USD 0.60 for fourth quarter 2022. The NOK dividend per share is based on average USDNOK fixing rate from Norges Bank in the period plus/minus three business days from record date 12 May 2023, in total seven business days. Average Norges Bank fixing rate for this period was 10.6392. Total cas...

Scotland's largest wind portfolio

UK Country Manager of Ocean Winds - Adam Morrison provides a deep dive into the formation and mission of Ocean Winds, including an overview of the key Scottish offshore wind projects totalling 17 Gigawatts of capacity and £2 Billion worth of investment, as well as the opportunity for Scotland and the UK supply chain in providing support to these key clean energy projects.

The evolution of floating wind

Chief Technology Officer at Flotation Energy - Alan MacAskill, talks to us about being one of the first pioneers in offshore wind with Talisman Energy, when in partnership with SSE, they decided to sanction the construction of the two turbines in the Beatrice field in 2001 and now with Flotation Energy they are continuing that work with the backing of TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) to provide fixed and floating wind to the global market.

Saipem wins two contracts worth $850m

Saipem wins two contracts worth $850m   Italian offshore engineering and construction player Saipem has landed two new contracts worth a total of around $850m. The first contract involves the second phase of the Sakarya gas field development project in the Turkish Black Sea waters. The work scope covers engineering, procurement, construction and installation of a 175 km long pipeline at 2,200 m water depth. The offshore work will start in the summer of 2024 and will be executed by...

Wind Turbine Inspection – Effective Decommissioning Planning

Wind Turbine Inspection – Effective Decommissioning Planning   Client: Repsol Sinopec Location: Moray Firth, Scotland Client Challenge Repsol Sinopec, a prominent energy conglomerate, enlisted ICR’s Sky-Futures™ drone inspection team to perform a thorough assessment of two wind turbines situated in the Beatrice oil field, located in Scotland’s Moray Firth. The turbine’s support structures and blades exhibited various forms of damage and irregular...

Blades International’s Paola Gasca Recognized with Emerging Leader Alumni Award by Houston Christian University

Blades International’s Paola Gasca Recognized with Emerging Leader Alumni Award by Houston Christian University   Blades International, Inc., a trade finance and cross-border broker and financial advisory firm, today announced that Vice President Paola Gasca—who oversees  the overall marketing and operations of the Blades International Foreign Exchange Rate Integrity® range of services—was awarded the Houston Christian University Emerging Leader Alumni Award...

Dales Marine Services Apprenticeship applications window is now open.

Dales Marine Services Apprenticeship applications window is now open.   Dales Marine Services are delighted to launch its 2023 apprenticeship recruitment campaign, with training opportunities across its Aberdeen, Leith, and Greenock dry dock facilities. Applications are now open and close at the end of June; interviews will be held in July, and new apprentices will commence with Dales Marine during August.   Dales Marine, a well-established ship repair and marine specia...

UK to join Biden’s emissions challenge as it forges closer energy security links with US

UK to join Biden’s emissions challenge as it forges closer energy security links with US   Shapps on four-day US visit to strengthen collaboration to safeguard UK Energy Security Secretary is meeting senior members of Biden administration UK set to join President’s Carbon Management Challenge to remove and store CO2 Visit comes as Department for Energy Security and Net Zero marks first 100 days The UK will back President Biden’s drive to remove and...

Decom Mission celebrates sector performance with sixth annual awards

Decom Mission celebrates sector performance with sixth annual awards   The winners of the sixth annual Decom Mission Awards (formerly Decom North Sea Awards) were announced on 16th May, at a ceremony held at in Aberdeen during the trade organisation’s Decom Week. This year the Awards, which were established by Decom Mission to celebrate excellence across a number of areas in decommissioning, premiered two new categories for 2023 - Sustainability and Decommissioning Photograph...

Petrofac surges on $1.5bn contract award

Petrofac surges on $1.5bn contract award   Petrofac surged on Thursday after it said that its joint venture with China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation (HQC) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract valued at around $1.5bn by STEP Polymers SPA. The oilfield services company said this is a "significant" downstream project, which will form part of the Arzew Industrial Zone, located west of Algiers, supporting Algeria&rsq...
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