Aberdeen and Rio de Janeiro-based Calibre International and Lonsal Representações, operating under the Entrada banner, have launched a new website to help British and Brazilian firms partner on projects in Brazil’s booming oil and gas sector. EntradaB2B.com features a free database of Brazilian and UK companies willing to offer their resources, exchange skills, expertise and [...]
Petrofac and Bowleven, the Africa-focused oil and gas company, have agreed a strategic alliance to support the proposed development of the Etinde Permit, offshore Cameroon. Under the terms of the strategic alliance, which is subject to Bowleven shareholder approval, Petrofac will provide engineering capability to Euroil, Bowleven’s Cameroonian subsidiary, to support the delivery of a [...]
A conditional agreement has been reached for New Zealand Oil & Gas Limited to acquire a 6.667 per cent interest in Petroleum Exploration Permit (PEP) 38451, located offshore from Taranaki. Five per cent of the interest is carried. If the transaction is completed, NZOG would acquire 6.111 per cent from Global Resource Holdings, LLLP and [...]
Ocean Riser Systems (ORS) has joined forces with Enhanced Drilling Solutions (EDS), a division of AGR Group (AGR), to form AGR EDS-ORS. The announcement was made on the Oslo Stock Exchange this morning that AGR has signed an agreement to purchase 100% of the shares in ORS, which has ‘developed technology and Intellectual property complementary [...]
Nord Stream started today the first of two all-important underwater tie-ins of its second gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea. In this complex two-week-long offshore operation, two of the pipeline’s three sections will be joined together 80 metres underwater inside a hyperbaric welding habitat on the seabed off the coast of Finland. Nord Stream has [...]
Pipeline isolation specialist, STATS Group, has appointed two new directors as it gears up for major international expansion following a £7.8 million equity investment. Former Expro executive chairman, Graeme Coutts, takes on a non-executive role in what is his first appointment since retiring from the global oilfield services company last year. In a 21 year [...]
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![Cecon, Great Offshore of India Join Forces in Pursuing Subsea Installation Projects]()
Cecon has entered into a cooperation Agreement with Great Offshore of India, where the parties are jointly pursuing subsea installation projects. In the cooperation, Cecon will be providing the subsea pipelaying and installation activities, while Great Offshore will be responsible for topside engineering, fabrication and modifications together with procurement, logistics, and provision of vessels for [...]
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![The Netherlands: Jumbo and Dockwise Join Committee of Recommendation Offshore Energy 2011]()
Navingo BV – organizer of Offshore Energy 2011 Exhibition & Conference (11 & 12 October, Amsterdam RAI) – is pleased to announce that André Goedée, CEO of Dockwise, and Michael Kahn, CEO of Jumbo, will join the Committee of Recommendation. This Committee will help secure the international ambitions of Offshore Energy. A growing number [...]
![USA: W&T Offshore, Stone Energy Join Helix Well Containment Group]()
The Helix Well Containment Group (HWCG) announces W&T Offshore, Inc. (and its wholly owned subsidiary W & T Energy VI, LLC) and Stone Energy Corporation have joined the organization, increasing its membership to 22 deepwater oil and gas operators. HWCG is a consortium of deepwater operators in the Gulf of Mexico who have come together [...]
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The board of BP announced today that it has appointed Mr. Phuthuma Nhleko as a non-executive director of BP p.l.c. with immediate effect. Mr. Nhleko is currently Group President and Chief Executive Officer of the MTN Group, the mobile telephony multinational company based in South Africa, positions he has held since 2002. He will [...]
