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AFBE-UK Scotland launches mentoring programme for next generation

AFBE-UK Scotland launches mentoring programme for next generation   AFBE-UK Scotland, an organisation that encourages greater diversity and inclusion in the energy and engineering sectors, is launching a mentoring programme. The social enterprise’s latest project, due to be unveiled on Saturday, November 28 (2020) at 2pm, has been introduced to inspire the next generation of in...

Milestone Tenth Annual Event Heralds All-New Format

Milestone Tenth Annual Event Heralds All-New Format   An annual highlight on the local business networking calendar is set to mark its milestone tenth anniversary with an all-new format. For the past decade, Granite Expo has given exhibitors and delegates the opportunity to meet, knowledge share and do business every year. Determined to ensure that the show will go on in a safe and accessible way in 2020, organisers Granite PR have now developed an online version of the event. Held...

P3 Business Care continue to expand their support across the UK.

P3 Business Care continue to expand their support across the UK.   Aberdeen based P3 Business Care having extended their unique model of care  to employees in the workplace to Glenrothes and Cardiff are delighted to announce the engagement of a new client Blakell Europlacer located in Poole, Dorset.   Following a successful 3-month pilot HR and Finance Manager Tracey Shotliff commented, " Researching into what our Employee Assistance Programme should look like, we fo...

MYP3 mobile app is allowing employees to get help

MYP3 mobile app is allowing employees to get help   COVID 19 has seen P3 Business Care develop a new means of reaching out to their clients. MYP3 mobile app is allowing employees to get help. Historically our contact has been through our twice-weekly physical workplace visits. We have now added the ability to communicate remotely which has been well received by our clients. In addition, it will also be helpful to aid support to staff should there be localised spikes of COVID 19 or, in...

Investment Expands Hiretech Limited Rental Offering

Investment Expands Hiretech Limited Rental Offering   Equipment rental business Hiretech Limited has invested a six figure sum in establishing an air powered winch offering as part of its growing rental portfolio. The investment has been driven by the firm’s client base to meet growing demand, and is a complementary addition to its existing rental equipment solutions.   The new product line will fall under the remit of Hiretech’s Subsea and Decommissioning Busin...

Sky-Futures brings Flock on board as drone insurance partner to support its global expansion

Sky-Futures brings Flock on board as drone insurance partner to support its global expansion   Sky-Futures, an ICR company, one of the world’s leading drone inspection and survey service providers, has appointed connected insurance provider, Flock, as its drone insurance partner. The partnership will enable Sky-Futures to seamlessly scale its drone insurance in line with its global expansion plans. The company has now conducted hundreds of large scale projects in over 33 coun...

Newbuild reel-lay vessel Seven Vega joins Subsea 7 fleet

Newbuild reel-lay vessel Seven Vega joins Subsea 7 fleet   Subsea 7 today, 12 November 2020, announced its newbuild reel-lay vessel Seven Vega has joined the company’s fleet. Phil Simons, Executive Vice President Projects & Operations Subsea 7 said: “We are pleased to add Seven Vega, one of the most capable and cost-effective reel-lay vessels in the market, to our fleet. The vessel is an important, long-term investment and sets a new standard for offshore pipelay. I...

Employees Recognised As Third Anniversary Brings International Growth

Employees Recognised As Third Anniversary Brings International Growth   An international leader in the provision of creative solutions for the oil and gas completions market has marked its third anniversary by giving almost half of the company to its employees. Westhill-based Vulcan Completion Products (VCP) has launched an Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) to give its employees shares in the company through an HMRC-backed scheme which aims to help smaller, independent business...

Two companies form exclusive alliance to create unified global service

Two companies form exclusive alliance to create unified global service   Pentagon Freight Services and TLC SA Transportation Logistic Consulting have formed a strategic alliance in order to enhance the range and reach of their service. The partnership between the two companies allows them to pool their combined resources, giving both a means of representation in countries where they do not currently have a presence.  TLC, headquartered in Switzerland and founded in 2001, ha...

New Kongsberg – MySep alliance

New Kongsberg – MySep alliance   Kongsberg Digital AS and MySep Pte Ltd have formed an alliance to provide fully rigorous separator modelling within K-Spice® dynamic simulation tool, the process twin in the Kognitwin Energy solution.  Customers with process optimisation or operator training requirements will be able to license MySep Engine directly from Kongsberg Digital. The Kongsberg - MySep alliance brings development of links between the K-Spice® simulator an...

OGUK reveals J+S Subsea as 2020 finalists for annual awards following challenging year for industry

OGUK reveals J+S Subsea as 2020 finalists for annual awards following challenging year for industry    The shortlist for this year’s prestigious OGUK Awards has just been revealed and J+S Subsea have been selected as finalists in the Excellence in Decommissioning category. The annual awards ceremony celebrates the brightest and best talent from across the country’s offshore oil and gas industry and finalists represent the hard work, innov...

Expansion plans for AFS Technologies

Expansion plans for AFS Technologies   Aberdeen headquartered energy services firm AFS Technologies has recently acquired the assets of Gastech to expand into Mechanical Joint Integrity training. As part of their expansion plan AFS Technologies now run Mechanical Joint Integrity (MJI) training services to expand on their current ECITB approved training portfolio of Small Bore Tubing (SBT), Process Operations and Instrumentation & Control. Luke Gascoigne, former owner of Gast...

CFS Plays Key Role in Normand Clipper Conversion – Port of Blyth

CFS Plays Key Role in Normand Clipper Conversion – Port of Blyth   CFS, one of the UK’s leading fabrication and engineering specialists based in the North East of England supported Royal IHC to deliver a major conversion of Global Offshore’s Normand Clipper vessel. The Brief The Normand Clipper was built in 2001 as a Cable Laying and Repair Vessel. It underwent a major conversion in 2005 to a deepwater subsea construction and umbilical lay DP vessel. Having bee...

World’s first multi-site £9m Integrated Smart Energy Lab launched by North East Energy Catalyst

World’s first multi-site £9m Integrated Smart Energy Lab launched by North East Energy Catalyst   A unique multi-site £9m smart energy testbed, the Integrated Smart Energy Lab (ISE Lab), has been launched in the region by the North East Energy Catalyst partnership, uniting the region’s smart energy capabilities to become the world’s first multi-site energy laboratory. The Integrated Smart Energy Lab (ISE Lab) is a combination of complementary research...

Wood extends training contract with 3t Energy Group by three years

Wood extends training contract with 3t Energy Group by three years   Global engineering and consultancy company, Wood, has renewed its training management service (TMS) contract with 3t Energy Group for a further three years, until 2023. 3t Energy Group, which includes AIS Training, Survivex, Drilling Systems, and Transform, has been contracted to deliver support for Wood’s onshore and site-based training and competency requirements in the UK since 2017. In that time, 3t has...

Legasea Ltd Congratulated on Finalist Place in OGUK Annual Awards

Legasea Ltd Congratulated on Finalist Place in OGUK Annual Awards   Legasea was today congratulated on making the finals of OGUK’s prestigious annual awards. Legasea has been shortlisted in the category of Business Innovation (SME). The annual awards ceremony celebrates the brightest and best talent from across the country’s offshore oil and gas industry and finalists represent the hard work, innovation, and collaboration the industry has adopted throughout 2020. The...

Bramble Energy Takes Delivery of a Toyota Mirai to Provide Emission-Free Transport for Its Hydrogen Fuel Cell Business

Bramble Energy Takes Delivery of a Toyota Mirai to Provide Emission-Free Transport for Its Hydrogen Fuel Cell Business   Bramble Energy, a developer of low-cost fuel cell technology, has taken delivery of a Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell car, to provide practical and emission-free transport for its day-to-day business. The company, based in Crawley, Sussex, will refuel its Mirai at the Shell and ITM Power hydrogen refuelling station at nearby Gatwick Airport. Since delivery in Sep...

Equinor in $2.9 billion asset write-off as oil price hit

Equinor in $2.9 billion asset write-off as oil price hit   Norway’s Equinor wrote off $2.93 billion from the value of its assets after cutting its long-term oil price forecast on Thursday, betting the pandemic and a shift away from fossil fuels will have a lasting impact on markets. Including the asset write-off, Equinor posted a net loss of $2.12 billion in the third quarter. The energy major’s adjusted profit before interest and tax (EBIT) fell to $780 million in J...

QHSE Aberdeen Ltd announce contract win for new service area.

QHSE Aberdeen Ltd announce contract win for new service area.   QHSE ABERDEEN have are delighted to have been awarded a new contract to assist Rosetti Marino on The Premier Oil operated Tolmount Field project.  The platform, designed and developed entirely in Italy, Sailed from Rosetti Piomboni Yard in Marina di Ravenna, it reached its final destination, the Tolmount Main Field located in the North Sea last week. Director Angela Scott said “We are delighted to...

Ensuring well abandonment integrity in the North Sea & beyond

Ensuring well abandonment integrity in the North Sea & beyond By Matthew Norgate, Chief Operating Officer, Acoustic Data   In November 2019, Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) predicted that UK oil and gas decommissioning would cost £15 billion over the next decade in the UK alone, and as much as £84 billion globally. Of those costs, well plugging and abandonment (P&A) accounts for circa 45% — approximately £38 billion for the next decade. In February 2019,...
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