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Centrifuges Un-Limited eyes Norwegian growth
Aberdeen-based service company Centrifuges Un-Limited plans to grow its headcount to 20 by the end of the year, as it presses on with growing its core business and exploring diversification opportunities. Acquired by Linton Investments at the beginning of 2020, more than half of business secured by the company since has been won on the international stage, with Norway leading the charge in emer...
Monday 6 July , 2020
Dräger announces ongoing Aberdeen investment
Medical and safety technology company Dräger Marine and Offshore has confirmed a new phase of investment in its Aberdeen office. The investment will focus on significantly expanding the company’s rental fleet of offshore safety equipment, which includes its industry-leading fire and rescue apparatus. The company’s safety products are employed by many operators in the North Sea, and its Abe...
Monday 6 July , 2020
John Lawrie completes MV Kaami decommissioning at Kishorn
Aberdeen headquartered metal waste recycling and processing firm John Lawrie Metals has confirmed the successful completion of a first-of-its-kind project in partnership with Kishorn Port Limited (KPL). The project involved the downsizing and recycling of the MV Kaami, a general cargo vessel recovered six miles off the north west coast of Skye after running aground in March. Working to European...
Friday 3 July , 2020
Iqarus expands remote consultations to support workers during COVID-19
Global occupational health services company, Iqarus, is now carrying out 50% of all consultations remotely to protect the health of energy industry workers. This has been fuelled by the impact of COVID-19, soaring from just 2% usage before the pandemic. Iqarus, part of International SOS, has been working around the clock with clients to support those with confirmed cases of coronavirus and impl...
Wednesday 1 July , 2020
Neptune Energy awards Cygnus remote monitoring contract to Fugro
Neptune Energy has awarded a subsea inspection contract to geo-data specialist, Fugro, for the surveying of subsea structures at the Cygnus gas field in the UK’s southern North Sea. Fugro’s will use state-of-the-art remote monitoring technology to inspect subsea infrastructure including pipelines and umbilicals, spools and communication cables, and perform structural surveys of the Neptune-...
Wednesday 1 July , 2020
Carjon-NRG supports delivery of online technology platform
Aberdeen headquartered technology deployment service company Carjon-NRG is linking with TechnologyCatalogue.com, to deliver a UK Energy Technology Platform. This platform will connect technology operators, developers and end-users in the UK oil, gas and renewable energy sectors and support rapid technology deployment. End-users can quickly get an overview of available technologies, while suppli...
Tuesday 30 June , 2020
Rever Offshore completes multi-million IRM contract
Subsea project delivery and execution provider Rever Offshore has announced the completion of a two-phase contract with energy major Total E&P UK. Beginning in late March, Rever undertook an onshore project management and engineering campaign, accompanied by an initial 41-day offshore operation and subsequent 10-day campaign, to conduct essential inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) wor...
Monday 29 June , 2020
Digital Debut for OGUK’s Share Fair
One of the offshore oil and gas industry’s most significant business development events is going digital in July when OGUK launches the first of its series of<a href="https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4102189230490841359"> Share Fair Spotlight webinars</a> featuring the forward work plans of Spirit Energy next week. Matt Abraham, OGUK’s supply chain director said: “Transforming S...
Thursday 25 June , 2020
OGTC Board welcomes Tendeka’s Gillian King
Tendeka’s VP for Europe, Russia, CIS & Africa, Gillian King, has joined the Board of The Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC). Gillian has worked in the oil and gas industry for almost 20 years and is passionate about new technology. Throughout her time at Tendeka, she has played a key role in the commercialisation of swellable packers and wireless intelligent completion technology and ...
Thursday 25 June , 2020
Don’t leave energy communities behind in green recovery plans
The leading representative for the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry has welcomed the Committee on Climate Change report to parliament today, calling for energy communities like the North East of Scotland and the East of England to be put at the heart of plans to transition to a lower carbon future. OGUK recently set out industry commitments to halve operational emissions in the next decade,...
Thursday 25 June , 2020
Exceed increases global footprint, establishes Exceed Norge
Aberdeen-headquartered well management and performance improvement specialist Exceed has announced the establishment of Exceed Norge. The new unit reflects its parent company’s ongoing strategy to strengthen and diversify its profile, in terms of both geographic footprint and services offered. The Stavanger-based subsidiary is headed up by managing director Mike Simpson who brings over 30 yea...
Wednesday 24 June , 2020
Brodies launches Oil & Gas Academy webinars
Brodies LLP is re-launching its Oil & Gas Academy series, now in an online format. Aimed at in-house lawyers and commercial managers in the sector, the seminars provide delegates with the opportunity to extend their depth of knowledge, breadth of skills and range of contacts. The firm will hold three one-hour sessions over the coming months, starting Thursday 25th June at 2pm. The first ses...
Tuesday 23 June , 2020
Cyberhawk secures five-year software contract with Shell
Drone-based inspection and asset visualisation expert Cyberhawk has secured a five-year, multimillion-dollar software contract with Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell). The company’s iHawk platform will become Shell’s next generation visualisation software platform for all onshore, offshore and subsea assets, as well as all global construction projects. Cyberhawk, which has been working with S...
Monday 22 June , 2020
Fraser Well Management secures first production well operatorship appointment
Well engineering and project management specialist Fraser Well Management (FWM) has assumed the production well operatorship of six southern North Sea development wells, marking the launch of a new product line. The work centres on NEO Energy’s Babbage platform, and includes five gas production wells and one suspended well. The scope of work covers the management of well integrity during the ...
Thursday 18 June , 2020
Add Energy launches AssetVoice smart solution
Add Energy’s Asset and Integrity Management (AIM) division has developed a new integrated solution to monitor, track and analyse components of fixed assets in real-time. The award-winning technology, AssetVoice™, combines features from asset management, change management and real-time location systems, and offers a single source of data for an asset's location, state, and availability. Used...
Thursday 18 June , 2020
Altrad secures construction, hook-up and commissioning contract for Tolmount
Services group Altrad has secured a contract for the provision of temporary access, engineering design, insulation, corrosion and fire protection, rigging and LOLER support to enable the hook-up and commissioning of the Tolmount offshore gas platform. The contract, which commences immediately, will encompass Altrad mobilising resources to Ravenna in Italy for the construction phase of the phase...
Wednesday 17 June , 2020
Akselos selected as World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
Swiss headquartered start-up Akselos has been selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers”. The company is deploying its real-time digital twin technology to support a systems-level transformation of the energy sector to lower the cost of renewable energy and support asset sustainability. The WEF Technology Pioneers are early to growth-s...
Wednesday 17 June , 2020
UK offshore oil and gas industry outlines plan to cut emissions as talks on transformational sector deal formally begin
The UK’s offshore oil and gas industry has today (Tuesday 16) committed to halving operational emissions in the next decade, confirming its pathway to becoming a net zero emissions basin by 2050. The sector is one of the first in the UK to commit to industry-wide targets and provide details on how they will be achieved. A report published by industry body OGUK, <a href="https://oilandgasuk.cl...
Tuesday 16 June , 2020
NHV extends offshore contract with Ithaca Energy
Helicopter services provider NHV Group has signed a five-year contract extension with Ithaca Energy (UK), providing aviation services to the Group’s operated FPF-1 installation, Alba, Captain and Erskine fields in the North Sea. The extension covers seven-day-a-week coverage and will start in January 2021. NHV will provide two H175 (primary and back-up) aircraft for this operation. The state-...
Tuesday 16 June , 2020
Bethan Customs advises on UK Global Tariff system
HMRC has recently published the new UK Global Tariff (UKGT) regime, which will replace the EU’s Common External Tariff (EU CET) at the end of the Transition Period on 1 January 2021. The UKGT has been tailored to the needs of the UK economy, making it easier and cheaper for businesses here to import goods from overseas. As well as a lower tax regime, there will also be reduced red tape and ba...
Monday 15 June , 2020