Drilling & production

Bibby Offshore welcomed George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the company’s facility in Aberdeenshire.

EY look at how global unrest is assuaging most fears of a price retreat.

Centek Inc.’s S2 centraliser sales in the US Rockies region topped a landmark US$ 1 million for the month of April 2014.

ecorpStim has announced advances expected to further improve the cost effectiveness of its NFP stimulation technology.

Cameron has announced that it has received an order from Freeport-McMoRan to supply a 20 000 psi blowout preventer stack.

Cameron reports the results of the second quarter of this financial year.

New subsea construction vessel is launched.

The Dynamic Positioning 2 (DP2) Tugboat, Ocean Sky, was christened in Houston.

Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation has gone live with MetricStream's solution for risk-based audit management.

The UK government has announced the start of the bidding process for licences to extract shale gas using fracking.

The downing of flight MA17 has prompted calls for further sanctions on Russia targeted at its energy sector.

Volga-Dnepr’s IL-76TD-90VD fleet saw oil and gas deliveries double in the first half of 2014.

A fracking ban in Longmont, Colorado, has been thrown out by a judge amid petitions to hold a vote on restricting oil and gas drilling.

Tethys’ share of the production in June, from blocks onshore Oman, was 219,777 barrels of oil.

GE has launched a new innovation challenge to improve the efficiency of oilsands extraction in Canada.