AS THE FPAL evolution progresses, free supplier training sessions continue to be held at the Aberdeen office. The training sessions offer suppliers an opportunity to learn how they can fully utilise FPAL and understand the potential benefits offered through the system's associated services.
Contractual relationships are an essential element of any business. However, the nature of the oil & gas industry is one that sees the sector dominated by contracts.
The Piper Alpha disaster was a turning point for the UK oil & gas industry, leading to significant changes in the industry's approach to safety management, regulation and training.
FIRST-YEAR students from seven universities across England, not Scotland, are celebrating their energy-saving successes following a national competition to encourage students to reduce their energy consumption.
You might have seen old movies with oil-well gushers splattering the drilling crew, spewing precious barrels of oil on the ground, or news coverage of a North Sea blowout - not that they have been commonplace.
THE Robert Gordon University's Department of Law at Aberdeen Business School has launched what it says is the first one-year postgraduate Masters in oil & gas law to be delivered solely online.
RESEARCHERS are working on a thermoelectric generator that converts the heat from car exhaust fumes into electricity. The module feeds the energy into the car's electronic systems.
Volt - the volt is the International System of Units (SI) measure of electric potential or electromotive force. A potential of one volt appears across a resistance of one ohm when a current of one ampere flows through that resistance.
Hundreds of school students battled it out for honours at the 2008 Celebration of Engineering staged at in Glasgow mid-June, with the topmost award going to a north-east school.
Taking a break from a busy schedule allows you to recharge your batteries and enjoy quality time with family and friends. The average working adult in the UK has annual leave entitlement of 25 days a year, but many employees avoid taking their full holiday entitlement from work.
IN WHAT promises to be a regular occasion, members of staff at the Westhill, Aberdeen, head office of Helix RDS met up with former colleagues who have moved on.
THE Sovereign Oilfield Group set aside thoughts of a tough trading year by staging a midsummer ball in the ballroom of Glentanar Estate, near Aboyne.
FOOTSIE-100 listed Tullow Oil has scored with its Ngege-1 exploration well drilled in Uganda's Lake Albert Rift Basin, encountering both oil and gas.
CLAMP-ON flowmeters are to be independently evaluated by TUV NEL in a joint industry project (JIP) funded by major companies in the oil & gas sector.
TECHNIP, with 50:50 joint-venture partner DOF Subsea, is to provide Petrobras with a new pipelay vessel under a four-year charter.
APPLICATIONS are invited from individuals, multi-disciplinary teams or community groups for the 2009 St Andrews Prize for the Environment.
NAUTRONIX says an independent study carried out by Blade Offshore Services demonstrates that its innovative NASNet acoustic positioning system really does outperform other acoustic positioning systems. NASNet is established in the defence market, but is still finding its feet offshore- though recent applications on offshore developments such as Agbami and Frade by Subsea 7 and Acergy suggest it is coming of age.
IT WILL be the top event of the summer season and you had better get your skates on as well over 1,000 places have been snapped up for Aberdeen's first Energy Ball.
OHM Group of Aberdeen has decided to embark on a three-year joint industry project to investigate "Well Integration with Seismic and Electromagnetics" (WISE).
THE North Sea's own website, OilCity, is setting out to map the skills of those who work in the industry today or who have retired.
Marathon-operated Brae is arguably the most outstanding UKCS example of how an offshore asset can expand from a single platform with an export pipeline to a major infrastructure hub.
The Brae complex is currently celebrating 25 years of production, with substantially more oil and gas recovered from the various sister fields than anyone imagined was possible when Marathon chanced upon this asset in May, 1975, while drilling well 16/07-1 - the first on licence P108.
TAKE two Irish brothers - one super-fit, the other not - chuck in a bike and an ancient steam road engine and see if they can get both vehicles from John O'Groats to Land's End in seven days.
A NEW flow loop commissioned in Australia is expected to help researchers find solutions to predict and control gas hydrates formation in offshore oil and production pipelines.
BP and its partners in the UK North Sea NW Hutton field are offering 100% of their interest, lock, stock and more than half full barrel to anyone interested in the abandoned asset and surrounding acreage.