Seeking to bolster its engineering support capability for a growing DP3 hybrid vessel fleet, the Sea Trucks Group occupied smart new premises in Rotterdam earlier this year. For founder and chief executive Jacques Roomans the move might suggest a return to his roots but鈥
The North Sea platform reuse opportunity was exemplified by Perencos removal of the UK southern North Sea Welland 53/4a platform and the reappearance of its refurbished topsides earlier this year on another of the operators structures, Sanaga 01鈥
Oil & gas companies will spend roughly $135 billion on subsea hardware between 2012 and 2016, an increase of 14% over the preceding five-year period, according to a new report from Douglas-Westwood.Spending took a hit in 2010 and 2011 as the鈥
Mooring of the PSVM FPSO in 2000m of water in BP鈥檚 ultra-deepwater block 31 offshore Angola was completed recently by First Subsea. The double-hulled FPSO is a hub field development that will produce oil from the Plutao, Saturno, Venus and Marte fields鈥
FMC Technologies, flying high on two OTC 鈥榮potlights on technology鈥 this year for its advancements in the subsea separation arena, discussed the two projects 鈥 Marlim and Pazflor 鈥 that earned this recognition.The subsea oil-water separation鈥
Aker Solutions has agreed to acquire National Petroleum Services鈥 NPS Energy business unit, which employs approximately 900 people and provides well intervention services in the Middle East and North Africa.
Houston-based Optimization Petroleum Technologies (OPT) has named DeepDraft Energy as agent to sell and implement OPT鈥檚 PEOffice software suite throughout Africa, with an exclusive focus on Nigeria and Ghana.
Dave Workman has been appointed to the new position of COO and Erik-Jan Bijvank (pictured) as SVP UK and Africa at Stork Technical Services, based in Aberdeen. Workman served as CEO of the former RBG business, which Stork acquired in May 2011鈥
Simon Zoller has joined Rialto as drilling manager and will oversee the company鈥檚 threewell campaign in Côte d鈥橧voire block CI 202, which began in March with the spudding of the Gazelle鈥揚3 well, as well as future drilling operations. He previously鈥
OE's analysis of current rig market data is updated monthly using statistics provided by Rigzone.comUtilization for the competitive fleet of mobile offshore drilling units worldwide has been gradually improving since February and is currently in the mid-80% range鈥
Tekena Dokubo (pictured) has joined GL Noble Denton as country manager, Nigeria, following the opening of the company鈥檚 first West African base in Lagos.
With the basin-opening Jubilee field and other oil and natural gas condensate discoveries, Kosmos Energy and its partners have placed Ghana on the deepwater oil & gas map. The company is now franchising its exploration strategy and aims to open鈥
A three-month campaign for West Africa鈥檚 first well intervention work and subsea well operations conducted from a monohull intervention vessel was completed recently by Helix Well Ops UK鈥檚 132m-long Well Enhancer. The vessel performed a subsea tree changeout鈥
Salaries for oil & gas industry engineers shot up over the past year, rising an average 6.1% across several professional disciplines, according to a new survey released by recruitment firm Hays.The average permanent salary across the survey's sample of 144鈥
One portion of the Golden Triangle 鈥 the Gulf of Mexico 鈥 has slipped a notch in its dominance of the global deepwater play while activities in the other two corners 鈥 West Africa and Brazil 鈥 amped up. In addition, a new region has joined the report this year鈥
