ITF, the Aberdeen-based technology facilitator for the upstream industry, has been involved in facilitating support for the development and implementation of a novel safety programme for construction supervisors in Australia.
First steel has been symbolically cut and now its full steam ahead on Shell's pioneering Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility at Samsung in South Korea.
Having earlier warned the Norwegian authorities that the Yme field production platform could collapse should a winter storm strike, operator Talisman has finally decided to fix the ailing structure.
Siem Offshore of Norway has ordered an installation support vessel from Ulstein to be built by the Norwegian shipyard Fjellstrand, with an option booked for a second vessel.
Researchers at blue chip US seat of learning, Stanford University say there is plenty of wind available to supply half to several times the world's total energy needs within the next two decades.
Delivering more for less in the field of well intervention is a major industry issue and will be the focus at the 18th SPE ICoTA European Well Intervention Conference in Aberdeen on November 14-15.
Italian contractor Saipem has been awarded a sizeable deepwater engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning contract with Petrobras covering two "pre-salt" developments in the Santos Basin some 300km (200 miles) offshore Brazil.
Mexico is another example of a country hell-bent on jumping on the unconventional bandwagon with the emphasis on shale gas.
Seadrill's plan to slash its home country presence in favour of another headquarters location stands firm more than a month after the drilling major's chairman John Fredriksen said Norway was too expensive.
PGS has order a further pair of gigantic Ramform-style seismic survey vessels from Mitsubishi of Japan.
Having just settled into its new Aberdeen premises, seals technology specialist Freudenberg Oil & Gas is planning further growth, including creating more jobs.
As more and more emphasis is placed on deepwater drilling and the economics of developing remote gas resources improve, Australia is predicted to overtake Qatar as the biggest global producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by 2017, according to new research.
On November 14, NOF Energy will host a lunch designed to attract contractors to pitch for work with Heerema Fabrications at Hartlepool as it sets its teeth into a huge package of work on the £2billion Cygnus gas project.
With a laboratory breakthrough once thought impossible, an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis assistant professor has invented a new class of power inverter that could put cheaper and more efficient renewable energy products on the market.
Momentum is building in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea with a fresh and potentially commercial condensate discovery and approvals granted for two further exploration wells.
Technip and Heerema Marine Contractors have signed a worldwide alliance agreement designed to capitalise in the fast-growing global subsea oil and gas market.
American companies PanAmerican Geophysical and NanoSeis are joining forces to commercialise the Narrow Beam Scan (NBS) microseismic technique developed by the latter to improve the detectability, spatial mapping, and understanding of the nature of microseismic events during the hydraulic fracturing process.
Amec has forged a joint venture with Samsung whereby the UK company will perform the design engineering for fixed and floating offshore platforms, floating production, storage, and offloading vessels (FPSOs), and subsea pipelines for the Korean group's future offshore oil and gas projects.
Houlder and BMT Nigel Gee say their jointly-developed offshore wind turbine access system (TAS) has successfully completed an extensive set of trials off the North Wales coast.
Framo Engineering of Norway has secured a $200million contract with Total for the supply of a subsea multiphase pumping system for the Girassol Resources Initiatives (GirRI) project offshore Angola.
A report commissioned by Nigeria's current Oil Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has revealed that mismanagement and corruption in the country's oil and gas industry has cost the Nigerian treasury billions of dollars every year, and that losses due to oil theft amount to around $6billion a year.
Norwegian company Prosafe has signed a letter of intent covering the construction of another semi-submersible accommodation rig at Jurong Shipyard in Singapore comparable to the Safe Boreas currently in build.
Aker Solutions has secured a $50million contract with Eni for a work package on the deepwater block 15/06 West Hub development offshore Angola.
Shell has been brought before the civil court in Den Hague, Netherlands, to defend itself in a suit charging that its operations in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria polluted a number of villages and poisoned fish farms.
Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) has revealed plans to invest an estimated $14billion to develop six fields in the Persian Gulf, according to the company's managing director.
