Martin Grant, CEO of Energy at Atkins is to deliver a paper at today’s Piper 25 conference on the topic of major hazard management and safety technology. The paper, entitled ‘Piper: The Journey of Understanding in the Energy Industries’, will focus on six main themes which, following cross industry research, have been highlighted as key [...]
DNV is urging the global oil and gas industry to strengthen its focus on safety risk analysis and be better prepared for incidents ahead of the Piper 25 conference. The organisation will present two papers at the conference, which is a special three day event taking place at the AECC in Aberdeen from 18-20 June [...]
Global oil and gas leaders believe there could be dramatic changes in the structure of relationships within the industry – according to a new report conducted by Robert Gordon University and sponsored by Dana Petroleum with launch support from PwC. The new research conducted by RGU’s Aberdeen Business School Leadership Voices, Imagining the future of the [...]
Pat Rabbitte TD, Minister for Communication, Energy and Natural Resources in Ireland, today (Wednesday 12 June 2013) told over 70 companies and 100 participants how they can be supported in accessing major business opportunities linked to current offshore oil and gas exploration activity. He was speaking at an event organised by Enterprise Ireland and Achilles [...]
ITF, the global technology facilitator, welcomes Lloyds Register to its growing and diverse list of prominent industry players. This follows the recent announcement that Expro, CNR and FMC Technologies will also be part of the global group, now boasting 30 members. Founded in 1760, Lloyds Register is the first certification authority to be part of [...]
Iran and Lebanon oil officials reached new agreements on expanding cooperation in oil and gas industry during a meeting held in Beirut May 12. Managing director of National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company (NIOPDC), Mostafa Kashkouli made the remarks adding in a meeting with Minister of Industry and Trade, and Minister of Economic Affairs of [...]
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Australian oil and gas industry has slammed tax changes introduced yesterday by the Federal Government in Australia. “Tax changes included in Australia’s Budget for 2013 that affect exploration costs and thin capitalisation rules will hurt the oil and gas industry’s international competitiveness. As such, they are short-sighted given the current debate regarding debt, deficit, and the [...]
The plans to build a center of excellence for the shipbuilding industry in Brazil were highlighted in the presentation made by Paulo Sergio Rodrigues Alonso, Petrobras Local Content Advisor to the President and the Executive Coordinator of Prominp, during an event sponsored by the Brazil-Texas Chamber of Commerce (Bratecc), which took place today (May 8), [...]
Moving MOUs to sheltered waters or drydock facilities for surveys is disruptive and expensive. Using the experience gained from several years of dealing with floating production units and surveying drilling units on location, DNV is now preparing a Recommended Practice (RP) to allow mobile offshore units to operate on location by optimizing survey routines without [...]
Stork Technical Services, the leading global provider of knowledge-based asset integrity management services for the oil and gas, chemical and power sectors, won two awards at this year’s UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards. Marc Brankin, Scaffold Chargehand for Stork won ‘The Most Promising Individual’ category for his exemplary attitude and behaviour towards offshore [...]
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