Category archives for: Onderwerpen

OWS to Celebrate Hand Over of ‘Offshore West Hinder’

OWS to Celebrate Hand Over of ‘Offshore West Hinder’

Offshore Wind Services BV (OWS) will celebrate the hand over of their second 19m crew transfer vessel “Offshore West Hinder” from South Boats shipyard during the Seaworks workboat show in Sothampton on the 23rd of May. The first of the two newbuild vessels “Offshore Wandelaar” was handed over today and will start operating next week [...]

Snam, Fluxys Acquire E.ON’s Stake in Interconnector

Snam, Fluxys Acquire E.ON’s Stake in Interconnector

Snam and Fluxys yesterday reached an agreement to acquire E.ON’s 15.09% stake in Interconnector (UK), owner and operator of the subsea pipeline between the UK (Bacton) and Belgium (Zeebrugge) providing a strategic bi-directional link between the UK and the continental gas trading places. Last January, Snam and Fluxys entered into a strategic alliance aimed at [...]

Tidal Turbine Produces Electricity in Orkney

Tidal Turbine Produces Electricity in Orkney

An underwater turbine that is set to be used in Scotland’s first and only consented tidal power project has successfully completed an initial testing period in Orkney, and is providing electricity for homes and businesses on the island of Eday, one of Orkney’s northern isles. The 1MW power generator was installed last December, in some [...]

Expro Gets RoSPA Safety Award

Expro Gets RoSPA Safety Award

International oilfield services company Expro has once again been recognised for its outstanding safety record globally. Expro has been commended in the oil & gas industry sector of the annual 2012 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) safety awards. Expro has received awards from RoSPA for the past eight years, achieving a gold [...]

Rolls-Royce Secures Contract to Equip Atlantic Offshore’s OSV

Rolls-Royce Secures Contract to Equip Atlantic Offshore’s OSV

Rolls-Royce, the global power system company, has secured a £6 million contract to provide an integrated design, power & propulsion and equipment systems package for an offshore supply vessel to be built at Norwegian ship yard Simek AS for ship owner Atlantic Offshore. The vessel is a Rolls-Royce UT 755 LC design and will be [...]

BP Announces Order of 4 New PSVs

BP Announces Order of 4 New PSVs

BP announced today it has ordered four new platform support vessels (PSV) to help deliver its long term business strategy in the North Sea. The vessels will be deployed to support its West of Shetland (WoS) and Norwegian operations and be delivered between the winter of 2013 and summer of 2014. The purpose built and [...]

Stork Receives IADC NSC Award

Stork Receives IADC NSC Award

Stork Technical Services, the leading global provider of knowledge-based asset integrity management services for the oil and gas, chemical and power sectors, won the ‘Associate Member’ prize at this year’s IADC North Sea Chapter (NSC) Annual Safety Awards. The award recognises an Associate members’ safety achievements over the past year which can include launching schemes [...]

RWE Hires CMACS to Manage Marine-Life Protection Measures at Gwynt y Môr

RWE Hires CMACS to Manage Marine-Life Protection Measures at Gwynt y Môr

A WIRRAL based environmental consultancy is to manage marine-life protection measures at one of the biggest wind farms currently in construction in Europe, after securing a £multi-million contract with Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited. CMACS Ltd will deliver a robust monitoring programme throughout the wind farm’s construction, ensuring the safety of marine mammals, [...]

Apache Corporation Announces Great Success of Extension Well at Beryl Field

Apache Corporation Announces Great Success of Extension Well at Beryl Field

Apache Corporation yesterday afternoon announced that an extension well had initial production rates higher than any oil well drilled at the Beryl Field in the U.K. North Sea since 2001. “We’re very excited about this well because we’ve found virgin reservoir pressure in two of three zones containing more than 300 feet of net true [...]

JP Kenny Signs FEED Contract with Norske Shell for Linnorm Project

JP Kenny Signs FEED Contract with Norske Shell for Linnorm Project

JP Kenny Norway has signed a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract with Norske Shell for the high temperature, high pressure Linnorm project in Norway. Valued at approximately US$9 million (NOK 55 million), this contract forms part of a global Enterprise Frame Agreement awarded to Wood Group Kenny earlier this year by Shell Global Solutions [...]





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