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Northeast Steel And Cladding Company Is To Represent Scotland In National Façade Awards

Northeast Steel And Cladding Company Is To Represent Scotland In National Façade Awards   Local steel and cladding company, KR Group, has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Façade Awards UK. KR Group (Scotland) Ltd is thrilled to have been shortlisted for the Façade Awards 2022, a celebration of the very best in façade design across the UK from the past year. Their work at Northfield Swimming Pool, on behalf of their client CHAP Group Ltd, has bee...

Scandinavian links set to deepen thanks to energy transition

Scandinavian links set to deepen thanks to energy transition   Connections between the North East of Scotland and Norway will be more important than ever as energy transition opportunities continue to be explored – that was the message to delegates as a popular international business event made its face-to-face return today (Monday, June 20th). The ninth Aberdeen-Norway Gateway, held by Granite PR in association with ONS and Widerøe, brought about a return to the event...

Hugh Fraser International announces a major expansion of its Abu Dhabi Ventures Initiative

Hugh Fraser International announces a major expansion of its Abu Dhabi Ventures Initiative   Hugh Fraser International has announced a major expansion of its ADVI - Abu Dhabi Ventures Initiative - legal service to support technology and know-how providers to expand in the UAE. The announcement was made during at the Energy Exports Conference in Aberdeen on 14th and 15th  of June 2022, where HFI participated and was presented by Hugh Fraser; its founder and managing partner....

Energean contract Stena IceMAX

Energean contract Stena IceMAX   Mediterranean Sea-focused oil and gas company has exercised its options to drill two further wells offshore Israel using Stena Drilling's drillship Stena IceMAX. The drillship, which was used to make the Athena gas discovery last month, has just completed the drilling of the Karish Main-04 appraisal well. Karish is the gas field in the Mediterranean Sea off Israel that Energean plans to develop using the Energean Power FPSO, which earlier this m...

Brent crude falls to $110/barrel on fears demand will decline

Brent crude falls to $110/barrel on fears demand will decline   US Fed plans to hike interest rates may impact economy Crude oil futures traded lower on Wednesday morning as traders feared that the decision of the US Fed Reserve to raise interest rates would drag the demand down for fuels. At 10.04 am on Wednesday, August Brent oil futures were at $110.89, down by 2.83 per cent, and August crude oil futures on WTI were at $105.66, down by 3.52 per cent. July crude oil futures w...

Australian oil and gas veterans launch offshore wind start-up with 9GW-scale plans

Australian oil and gas veterans launch offshore wind start-up with 9GW-scale plans   A new player has emerged in Australia’s fledgling offshore wind industry, revealing plans to deliver three large-scale floating offshore generation and storage projects, with between 6GW and 9GW of combined capacity. The company, founded by Brendan Warn and Jacob Jonker, aims to build these massive projects off the coasts of Victoria, NSW and Western Australia and is targeting first commercia...

ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy ink North Field East LNG deal

ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy ink North Field East LNG deal   On 21 June, ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy announced they signed an agreement to further develop Qatar’s North Field East project. The large project is to expand Qatar’s LNG capacity from 77 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) to 110 mtpa by 2027. ExxonMobil is QatarEnergy’s fourth partner in this project; QatarEnergy firstly announced a partnership with France’s TotalEnergies, with Italy’s Eni, and th...

Norway Remains Exploration Hotspot Despite Maturing Basins

Norway Remains Exploration Hotspot Despite Maturing Basins   Exploration activity over the last decade has been impacted by two major oil price crashes and a global pandemic, which have resulted in large fluctuations in drilling costs, exploration performance, and discovered volumes. Despite all of that, and the maturity of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), Norway continues to be a global hotspot for exploration. An extensive infrastructure base, fiscal incentives for expl...

4C secures key new appointment to enhance business growth expertise

4C secures key new appointment to enhance business growth expertise   Energy industry executive Jon Oliver Bryce has joined business growth consultancy 4C Global (4C) as a Senior Advisor. 4C, launched in 2020, supports companies with strategy and business growth in multiple industries including Oil and Gas, Marine and New Energy. To date, 4C has supported activity with tier one global contractors in decommissioning, well intervention, well management and offshore drilling as we...

Wood appoints new chief executive

Wood appoints new chief executive   Leading services contractor Wood has found its new chief executive after an extensive search of internal and external candidates. Ken Gilmartin, Wood’s current chief operating officer, will take the helm of the company headquartered at Aberdeen, Scotland, effective from 1 July. Following 15 years with Jacobs, Gilmartin joined Wood in his current role last August. He will succeed Robin Watson, who announced his intention to retire in Apr...

Well-Safe Protector to undertake Ithaca Energy North Sea well decommissioning

Well-Safe Protector to undertake Ithaca Energy North Sea well decommissioning   Well-Safe Solutions have been contracted by Ithaca Energy to plug and abandon (P&A) six wells on the Anglia platform in the Southern North Sea, approximately 55km from the UK mainland. The contract – for an undisclosed sum - will see the Aberdeen-based well decommissioning specialists provide project management, well engineering and all managed delivery services for the project. The Well-S...

Verlume and Oasis Marine Power sign MoU to explore new electric wind farm vessel charging concept

Verlume and Oasis Marine Power sign MoU to explore new electric wind farm vessel charging concept   Verlume, an intelligent energy management and storage technologies specialist, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with electric vessel recharging pioneer Oasis Marine Power. The MOU will explore the creation of new intelligent in-field energy storage and charging infrastructure for crew transfer vessels, further enabling electrification of offshore wind farm operations. T...

BP signs PSCs for two gas blocks offshore Indonesia

BP signs PSCs for two gas blocks offshore Indonesia   BP has signed the 30-year production sharing contracts (PSC) for Agung l and Agung ll exploration blocks with the government of Indonesia, it said on June 20. The signing follows the decision to award the two gas blocks during the second round of the 2021 Oil and Gas Working Area Bid Round. The Agung I block covers an area of 6,656 km2 deepwater offshore Bali and East Java, while the Agung II is located deepwater offshore of So...

Ukraine strikes drilling platforms off Crimea

Ukraine strikes drilling platforms off Crimea   Ukrainian military forces targeted offshore oil and gas drilling platforms in the Black Sea on Monday, the country’s officials and Russia-installed head of Crimea have said. Oleksiy Honcharenko, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, first broke the news on Telegram, which was later confirmed on the same platform by Sergei Askyonov, who was appointed as head of the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The drilling r...

Global Maritime Geosciences Launches Celtic Sea Geo Desktop Study

Global Maritime Geosciences Launches Celtic Sea Geo Desktop Study   Global Maritime’s Geosciences department – “GM Geo” - has launched a geological, geohazard and geotechnical desktop study covering an area of search with a focus on the upcoming Crown Estate floating wind leasing round. The DTS is a valuable source of information for developers seeking to identify preferential areas in the Celtic Sea to submit to the leasing process. The desk top study inves...

Titan Torque signs major New Technology development contract with Steel Space Casing Drilling

Titan Torque signs major New Technology development contract with Steel Space Casing Drilling   Steel Space Casing Drilling (link www.steelspacecasingdrilling.com) and Titan Torque (link www.titantorque.co.uk) have signed a contract to commercialize an innovative Casing Drilling Tool.     The agreement will see Titan take a seat at the board of Steel Space Casing Drilling and guide the company through to commercialization. The World’s First “Sin...

Equinor denies press speculation over Rosebank field

Equinor denies press speculation over Rosebank field   Norway's state-controlled Equinor has described as "pure speculation" a UK press report that claims the company is considering pulling out of the £4.5bn ($5.5bn) Rosebank oil development in the west of Shetlands area. The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported on 19 June that Equinor is threatening to abandon the UK project on account of the government's recent windfall tax on oil company profits. But the f...

Neptune Energy, ExxonMobil, Rosewood and EBN to cooperate on L10 Carbon Capture and Storage

Neptune Energy, ExxonMobil, Rosewood and EBN to cooperate on L10 Carbon Capture and Storage   Neptune Energy, ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Netherlands, Ltd., Rosewood Exploration Ltd., and EBN Capital B.V. today announced the signing of a Cooperation Agreement to progress the L10 large-scale offshore carbon capture and storage project in the Dutch North Sea. The agreement brings together the technical and commercial capabilities necessary to create a robust carbon storage offering for...

Craig International wins major, long-term contract with INEOS FPS

Craig International wins major, long-term contract with INEOS FPS   Aberdeen headquartered, Craig International has secured a major contract with INEOS FPS, potentially valued at over £20million. Following a competitive tender, the global energy procurement specialist has been awarded a five-year contract (with two year options) to deliver consolidated procurement services to INEOS FPS. This includes the supply of maintenance, repair and operations equipment for its Grangemou...

AREG launches 2023 photography competition to capture energy in action

AREG launches 2023 photography competition to capture energy in action   Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG) has launched its 2023 calendar photography competition to celebrate Scotland’s contribution to the energy transition. After a successful competition last year, budding amateur photographers of all ages are invited to submit photographs that capture energy in action. Images can show wind turbines, hydrogen, electric vehicles and bikes, solar PV, and how renewable...
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