Drilling & production

Subsea installation contractor Bibby Offshore has recently commenced work with Maersk Oil UK on a multimillion pound contract.

Trang Nguyen, Douglas-Westwood Singapore, explains this energy-hungry region’s gas industry is working to take the strain of delayed nuclear development.

Work carried out on Cendor and Berantai Oil Fields Offshore Malaysia for Petrofac.

DNV GL has opened a new office in Vietnam to support its growth plans.

Aquatic Asia Pacific has successfully completed its new carousel, the AQCS-01-1500 maiden project.

Intertek has opened a new 8.5 million AED facility in Abu Dhabi, which will house cutting-edge equipment.

Chris Faulkner, Breitling Energy Corp, explains why the biggest challenge facing the shale industry is negative PR caused by a failure to relate to the public.

The latest downstream news from the USA and Canada.

According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), crude oil inventories at Cushing are down 29% over the past seven weeks.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) comments on the recent UK budget.

Oilfield Technology correspondent Ng Weng Hoong reveals that despite predictions of a glut, Asia is growing increasingly anxious about oil and gas supplies.

Marsh comment that multiple system failures are often the root cause of the energy sector’s largest losses.

ICF International has released its ICForecast Energy Outlook for the second quarter of 2014.

Wärtsilä has signed three contracts with Aker Midsund of Norway to deliver its Vessel Internal Electrostatic Coalescer systems for three North Sea oilfields.

Subsea 7 reveals its latest heavy construction vessel, the Seven Arctic, designed to address the operational challenges for subsea construction.