Energy news updates

Professor Mark Schaffer, Director of the CEERP at Heriot-Watt University, has welcomed BP’s latest findings as “clear evidence of a major transformation in the global energy landscape”.

Seatronics has supported a global oilfield provider of engineered services and products, with a key project in Brazil through the supply of state-of-the-art subsea equipment.

Emerson has announced a new dual-mode wireless gateway, which supports both IEC 62951 WirelessHART® and ISA100.11a industrial wireless communications standards.

TAP AG has recently completed its shipment of pipes to Albania.

The Riser Platform jacket for the Johan Sverdrup development will be ready for delivery in July.

Huntingdon Fusion Techniques’s PurgElite pipe purging system is designed to drastically reduce the purging zone during welding, saving both time and wasted inert gas costs.

Carnarvon Petroleum is joining with Northern Oil & Gas Australia on a collaborative data sharing project, offshore Australia.

The suspension of operations is due to longstanding delays in the bare-boat charter payments due to Bumi Armada, as well as irregular payments on the operations and maintenance contract.

Honeywell Process Solutions has launched Experion® Elevate, a real-time process supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) solution delivered as a secure and scalable service.

Dragon LNG is celebrating after being named a finalist in the UK’s longest running and most prestigious awards programme.

This year, Sulzer staff will provide information on some of the other services available, such as the repair of generators and motors and the refurbishment of pumps.

GMB, the union for energy workers, has expressed concern over the closure of the biggest gas storage plant in the UK, as it risks Britain's energy security.

Virtual reality headsets and real life career stories are hoped to inspire students at a South London school to consider careers in engineering, on Women in Engineering Day.

The Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline is reportedly set to go live at the end of June.

Rovco has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Dr Iain Wallace as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

The BP-operated Prudhoe Bay oil field has reached 40 years of production.

At this year’s International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), SSE will launch a new film that aims to bust some of the myths associated with women in engineering.

Stefan Basenach has been named as the head of HIMA Paul Hildebrandt’s new Process business unit.

88 Energy Limited has announced that stimulation operations have been completed successfully on Project Icewine.

The UK’s Oil and Gas industry is gearing up for growth as cautious optimism returns to the sector, new research reveals.

Aquaterra Energy has won a major contract to supply subsea high-pressure riser equipment and services for a subsea abandonment project in the central North Sea.

ITC Global has announced it has begun satellite communication installations on a Brazilian FPSO fleet following previous successful West African deployment.

Claxton has been awarded a contract to riglessly casing cut and recover a total of seven wells in the Southern North Sea.

Expro has obtained a US$10 million well services contract extension with Apache North Sea.