Middle East orders are driving growth and filling newly built capacity at Sweden headquartered Atlas Copco鈥檚 newly upgraded and expanded UK systems facility. Atlas Copco Compressors鈥 largest ever UK designed and built custom engineered package鈥
Houston-based oil, gas and water specialist ProSep has launched an Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) joint industry project (JIP) with Qatar Petroleum and Petroleum Development Oman. The 12-month project, which started in December 2014鈥
Saudi Aramco says it has set a new record for heavy lift operations in its Arabiyah-Hasbah gas fields project about 150km offshore Saudi Arabia. The heavy lift barge Lan Jing completed the installation of the Hasbah tie-in platform (TP) using its 7500-ton crane鈥
Boskalis announced that the Dockwise vessel White Marlin was named and christened during a festive ceremony in Guangzhou, China. Following the ceremony, the semisubmersible heavy transport vessel will be mobilized to Singapore for its maiden鈥
AGR has secured a contract with LUKOIL Overseas to optimize the Russian firm's drilling performance. The contract covers LUKOIL鈥檚 drilling operations in several territories internationally, including Middle East, Black Sea, Africa and Central Asia鈥
Rod Starr joins Polarcus as its next chief executive officer (CEO) effective 5 February. Starr has more than 30 years industry experience, starting his career with Unocal where he spent 16 years in various planning and financial roles鈥
First oil from the Nasr oil field, 130km offshore Abu Dhabi, started 24 January, according to partner, Japan's INPEX. First production has been achieved through existing facilities - the Abu Al Bukoosh (ABK) and Umm Shaif oil fields鈥
Orderbooks reflect reined-in spending based on conservative near-term oil price estimates. ABS鈥 James Graf sets out the detail. MODU new construction projects through 4Q/14. Source: ABS. Weak demand鈥
Kuwait Petroleum Corp.'s (KPC) CEO today said the company would be increasing output, a move he says will put pressure on deepwater projects as well as the likes of onshore oil sands and expensive unconventional projects. Nizar Al-Adsani said the market鈥
The Middle East well intervention market is expected to reach US$2.4 billion by 2018, up from $1.37 billion in 2013, with a CAGR of 11.9%, according to a Research and Markets report. The Middle East, with 80.3 trillion cu/m, is home to 43鈥
Dubai-based Gulf Marine Services has won a new long-term contract award for one of its Large Class vessels. The vessel will start a four-year charter (three years firm with a one-year option) at the end of Q1 2015 on completion of鈥
The Ferguson Group has unveiled a new HVAC system for its workspace modules, which will protect workers from high temperatures and excessive humidity levels whilst offshore. The new HVAC system has been installed in the new workspace鈥
The shallow waters of the Persian Gulf, also known as the Arabian Gulf, belie the plethora of offshore infrastructure 鈥 new and old 鈥 in the Middle East. Elaine Maslin probes beneath the waves. In 2005鈥
Year in review: 2014 - OEDigital鈥檚 top stories Mozambique NG flow test. OE staff presents a look back at 2014鈥檚 top stories posted on OEDigital.com. It was a year filled with highs and lows鈥
Nexans provided its first delivery for the subsea direct electrical heating (DEH) system to be used at BP's Shah Deniz Stage 2 development off Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. Nexans is tasked with supplying a comprehensive subsea DEH system鈥
