ABS Group has launched an eLearning training platform to provide educational tools and offer a catalogue of professional training courses to technical personnel worldwide. The new training solution will feature on-demand courses to augment classroom training in the practice areas of cyber security, risk…
AIM-listed UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) has filed a planning application with the Isle of Wight Council for the appraisal drilling and flow testing of the Arreton oil discovery. Following a one-week statutory notice period, the application is expected to go ‘live’ on 27…
Neptune Energy has oil in the Schwegenheim exploration well in the Rhine Valley. Further assessment is required to determine if oil can be produced economically from the structure. The well has been suspended. Drilling operations were carried out to a depth of 2,600…
Shell revealed on the 23rd March that it has embarked on “a series of operational and financial initiatives” which are expected to contribute US$8-9 billion of free cash flow on a pre-tax basis. The initiatives are expected to result in the reduction of underlying…
Saudi Arabia’s Zamil Shipyards, part of Zamil Offshore Services, and Dutch lifting equipment specialist KenzFigee have signed a memorandum of understanding for the provision of offshore crane services and local construction of KenzFigee offshore cranes and equipment. KenzFigee said on the 22nd March that…
23 March 2020 The Strait of Hormuz connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and has always been a vital route for commercial ships to access five of the world’s Top Ten oil exporting countries, as well as providing a passage to the…
OKEA has confirmed that the Yme redevelopment project in the Norwegian North Sea remains on schedule for first oil in the second half of 2020. The company said it was working with operator Repsol and the other partners to mitigate the impact which travel…
TGS has completed, on-time, the processing of its Erlend Wild West multi-client 3D seismic survey west of Shetland. This data, which offers an enhanced subsurface image of the region to assist in the geological understand of this highly prolific region, is now available and…
The technology group Wärtsilä’s Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) solution will be installed in the port of Callao in Peru, the country’s main harbour and one of Latin America’s most important ports. Dense fog and haze are a consistent challenge for Callao’s port operations, often making shipping…
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has generated over US$93 million in high bids for 71 tracts in Federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. BOEM said that the region-wide Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 254 generated US$93,083,453 in high bids covering…
