Oil & gas news
Bureau Veritas collaborates with ERM
Bureau Veritas has announced a new collaboration agreement with leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, and social consulting services, Environmental Resources Management.
Simark Controls secures follow-up order
Simark Controls Ltd has received a major follow-up order for their proprietary Variable Frequency Drive systems (VFDs) from an Alberta Oil Producer.
Wood Group awarded Shell Brent decommissioning contract
Wood Group has received a contract to support Shell in the decommissioning of the Brent Bravo platform in the North Sea.
Sacgasco signs farm-out agreement
Sacgasco Ltd has signed a farm-out agreement with Empyrean Energy plc (EME) for the natural gas Dempsey Prospect and other Sacramento Basin assets.
IPE receives funding package
A major funding package for the Institute of Petroleum Engineering (IPE) at Heriot-Watt University will directly support research and training for the future of the industry in UK offshore waters.
TMC secures Höegh FSRU deal
Samsung Heavy Industries has awarded TMC Compressors (TMC) a contract to deliver a marine compressed air system to a FSRU.
Wärtsilä acquires Greensmith Energy
Wärtsilä has signed an agreement to acquire Greensmith Energy Management Systems Inc.
Gas production begins at Bezzecca
Po Valley Energy has announced that testing of the primary production layers from the Bezzecca well east of Milan, Italy, is complete.
US market entry heralds growth opportunities for Polaris Learning
Polaris Learning will work together with Safety Management Systems (SMS), part of Acadian Companies, to deliver a range of training courses to onshore and offshore workers in the US oil and gas industry.
Cyber and physical attacks – understanding and managing the risks
Deirdre Michie, Chief Executive, Oil & Gas UK and SPE Offshore Europe 2017 executive committee member explains that while the cyber threat has been talked about for many years as an emerging security risk to the oil and gas industry, it is now very much ‘a new reality’.