Edinburgh-based WFS Technologies and Stork Technical Services have unveiled a new subsea wireless cathodic protection monitoring system for the offshore industry. The Seatooth Smart CP, which the firms say is the world’s first subsea wireless cathodic protection monitoring system…
Innovation in the offshore industry was one of the key themes at this year’s 27th Offshore Achievement Awards. The event, supported by Offshore Engineer and held at the Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre, was successfully re-launched…
The winners of the 2013 UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards, sponsored by Maersk Oil UK, were announced at a special lunchtime awards ceremony in Aberdeen today (24 April) The showcase event, held at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre…
The offshore industry’s highest achievers were recognised at last night’s 2013 Offshore Achievement Awards, with Malcolm Webb, chief executive of Oil & Gas UK, picking up the Significant Achievement accolade.The 27th awards ceremony, which saw a record attendance of 530 guests…
Human factors, such as lapses in concentration, mistakes and violations, are frequently cited as the root cause of incidents in the offshore oil & gas industry. Changing these behaviours has therefore been identified as key to reducing recordable incidents and improving overall safety performance…
Allan Browne and Donald Ballantyne have been appointed BDMs at Paradigm Flow Services, Browne focusing on the subsea sector and Ballantyne on topsides technologies. Browne was GM of Halliburton’s SureStream pipeline flow assurance…
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…
Dutch contractor Stork Technical Services continues to make inroads into the offshore oil & gas sector as it pursues its ambition to become a global force in the provision of maintenance, modification and overhaul services. Meg Chesshyre talks to the man with the plan…
Dave Workman (pictured), CEO of Stork Technical Services, has been elected chairman of the UK’s Offshore Contractors Association (OCA). He replaces John Pearson, Amec Natural Resources’ MD for Europe and West Africa, who handed over…
Hunting has completed the acquisition of Specialty Supply for an initial cash consideration of $31 million. Located in Houston, Specialty manufactures precisionmachined MWD parts used in directional drilling markets worldwide.Lankhorst Mouldings and…
The oil & gas industry has long used dry ice as an isolation technique, for example to freeze a wellbore and allow intervention work. Now, after years of application in the nuclear sector, cryogenic freezing using liquid nitrogen has started to make inroads offshore…
OE's popular annual guide to oil & gas developments on the Northwest European Continental Shelf returns, fully updated.Operators in the UK sector of the North Sea were taken aback in March this year by UK Chancellor George Osborne's decision to raise the supplementary tax rate from 20% to 32%…
Offshore sector M&A activity continues apace, with Aberdeen-based ‘inspect, assess and repair' services provider RBG among the latest players to change hands. Meg Chesshyre talks to RBG chief executive Dave Workman about the background to –…
Rowan Companies is selling all its shares in manufacturing subsidiary LeTourneau Technologies to Joy Global in a $1.1 billion cash deal. Rowan acquired LeTourneau, which built the majority of Rowan's jackup rig fleet, in 1994. Rowan president…
Reservoir isolation rethinkThe newly patented PowerBall from Aberdeen-based Red Spider turns traditional reservoir isolation barrier technology on its head by moving the mechanical parts of the ball mechanism below the closed ball area of the tool…
