Ofgem has today announced it is minded to approve a change to the methodology for calculating what generators pay to use the electricity transmission network across Britain. It is proposed that the new charges would come into effect on 1 April, 2014. The aim of this change is to facilitate the timely move to a [...]
FMC Technologies Schilling Robotics, a manufacturer of work-class ROVs and manipulator arms, has presented a video of HPU Auxiliary Pump Change. The Company has implemented a 60 min maintenance time frame for all major subsystems on an ROV. On average, this results in a 6 to 1 improvement in maintenance time over the traditional systems. One [...]
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Offshore Group Newcastle (OGN) one of the UK’s leading EPC service providers to the offshore oil & gas and wind energy sectors welcomed the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change – Ed Davey onto the Hadrian Yard facility in Wallsend on Wednesday 27th March. Mr Davey was given an opportunity to see the [...]
The first direct evidence that marked changes to Antarctic sea ice drift have occurred over the last 20 years, in response to changing winds, is published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. Scientists from NERC’s British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena California explain why, unlike the dramatic losses reported [...]
Acteon Group Ltd today announces the acquisition of a majority interest in the company by an affiliate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P (together with its affiliates, “KKR”) from First Reserve, with management retaining a significant holding in the company. The executive management team will remain in place. Further terms of the transaction were [...]
The European Marine Energy Centre today (Tuesday, July 31) welcomed the UK’s Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker to its world-leading facilities in Orkney as part of a governmental visit to the region. EMEC – the only accredited wave and tidal test centre for marine renewable energy in the world – provided the minister [...]
Gold Oil, the AIM-listed oil and gas exploration and production company, with a primary focus on opportunities in Latin America, announces the following Directorship change. Julian Garcia With immediate effect Mr Julian Antonio Garcia has been appointed to the Board of Gold Oil Plc. Julian, 53, joined the Company in November 2011and has considerable experience [...]
Five Oceans Services GmbH announced that the Company’s shareholder and board of directors approved a name change to Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH. Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC), formerly Five Oceans Services, is an experienced submarine cable and subsea umbilical installation, repair and maintenance contractor serving the worldwide offshore oil and gas as well as renewable [...]
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) released a new report evaluating how climate change may affect the environmental conditions measured and used in mathematical modeling for oil-spill trajectory analysis in the Arctic region. Key findings from the study include recommendations on the scientific methodology to use in explaining recent, rapidly [...]
STATS Group, has successfully completed a 20 inch valve change-out on the Yanga platform, offshore the Republic of Congo. STATS were contracted by Halliburton, on behalf of Total E&P, to provide pipeline isolation to replace a launcher valve located downstream between the Yanga export and Sendji production lines. The Sendji production line was to [...]
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