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We are attending OceanBusiness 2011 in Southampton between 5th - 7th April 2011, come and visit us at stand T3
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Aberdeen-based specialist subsea service company DOF Subsea UK has been awarded multiple contracts with Saipem.The first award is for the design and provision of 35 Subsea Transponder Frames for installation in the Kizomba Field, Angola. The second award is with Saipem for the provision of Light Construction and Pre-route Survey Services in the Kizomba Field, Angola and is worth approximately €2...
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Ocean Business 2011 National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK 5th - 7th April 2011 Stand T3  
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The changing face of business relationships in the North Sea oil and gas industry is leading to an increasing number of legal disputes as margins are squeezed. Sums of money which might have been deemed almost insignificant by the oil majors may now be vital for the new players. Such is the rise in demand in the sector for experts in commercial dispute resolution that Tom Beezer, a partner in the national law firm Bond Pearce, has moved north of the border to work out of their Aberdeen office on such cases...
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Saipem has been awarded new offshore contracts worth over 1 billion euro ($1.3 billion). The contracts refer to activities to be carried out between 2010 and 2012 in the main offshore areas where Saipem is present, in particular in the Caspian Sea, both in the Kazakh and Azeri sectors, Brazil, the Middle East, West Africa, the North Sea and Mexico...
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EnCore updated on the Catcher exploration well located in UK Central North Sea block 28/9.The 28/9-1 well was drilled to a TD of 5,219 ft Measured Depth (M.D.) having successfully encountered excellent quality oil bearing reservoir sandstones at 4,600ft at the target Cromarty Sandstone level. A potential oil water contact has also been intersected at 4,840ft...
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'Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, 'Common Sense', who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault...
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By OGJ editorsHOUSTON, May 19 -- Rockhopper Exploration PLC ran liner and suspended for later tests its 14/10-2 well on the Sea Lion prospect, saying it could be the first oil discovery in the North Falkland basin in the South Atlantic.The company air-freighted rock and fluid samples to the UK for study after it TD’d the well at 2,744 m because the Ocean Guardian semisubmersible is not equipped to analyze them...
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Fugro has issued a report on the first months of this year, stating revenues about 10% lower than in the same period in 2009, in line with earlier expectations. However, from early March activity levels are improving underpinned by a strong tendering activity and an increasing backlog.Beside lower work volumes resulting from the world-wide economic crisis, unusually adverse weather conditions caused delays on both on- and offshore projects during the first couple of months...
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Eni has started the development of the Kitan oil field, located in the permit 06-105 of the Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA) between Timor-Leste and Australia, approximately 250km south of the Timor-Leste capital of Dili and 500km north of Darwin, Australia.Eni is the operator (40%) in the permit JPDA 06-105, with INPEX Timor Sea, Ltd. (35%) and Talisman Resources (JPDA 06-105) Pty Limited (25%) as joint venture partners...
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Subsea 7 Inc (OSE Symbol: SUB), one of the world’s leading subsea engineering and construction companies, today announced the award of an installation contract by BP for the Galapagos and Nakika Phase 3 developments in the Gulf of Mexico. .Engineering work will commence immediately at Subsea 7’s Houston office. Installation will take place during late 2010 using Subsea 7’s pipelay and construction vessel, the Skandi Neptune...
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Statoil completed heavy offshore lifting of two wellhead platforms, A and B, on the Peregrino field. The two platforms will now be hooked up and will enter the completion phase, allowing for production drilling later this year. A total of 30 horizontal production wells will be drilled, together with seven water injection wells. Additionally, the Peregrino FPSO, which is being built by Maersk in Signapore, is scheduled to arrive on the field for hook up and commissioning some time this year...
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This morning Teresa Ward, accounts / administrator in our office picked the winning ticket and revealed Mr Thomas Bashyam from Fugro Survey Ltd in Aberdeen as the winner of the net book.Thank you to all the people who took the time to visit us at our stand and enter the draw.Suggestions for the prize at OI 2012 may be submitted to info@gossconsultants...
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March 9th 2010 sees the start of the 3 day exhibition that GOSS will again be attending.Oceanology International is the world’s premier meeting place for the marine science and ocean technology community.Oceanology is attended by a global community of engineers, scientists, legislators, policy makers and management professionals with responsibility across all of the ocean science and marine technology spectrum...
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RHYL Flats Offshore Wind Farm has been officially opened and will be up and running by the end of the month.The 25-turbine site, five miles off the North Wales coast, is the biggest renewable energy power station in Wales and will produce enough electricity to power 61,000 homes.The site was opened by Peter Hain Secretary of State for Wales and Jürgen Grossmann, chief executive officer of German-based firm RWE Inology which owns the site's operator npower renewables...
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Neptune Marine Services Ltd has been awarded a new round of international contracts for some of the oil and gas industry’s leading operators.Spanning all of the world’s major geographic regions, the contracts include: A combined services project off the West Australian coast for global exploration and production company, Apache Energy...
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Saipem has been awarded a contract for the supply and operation of a FPSO vessel (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) worth approximately 1 billion euro.The contract, awarded by Eni, encompasses the conversion of a wholly owned oil tanker into a FPSO vessel, for which Saipem will provide the installation and the operation management. The FPSO vessel will have a storage capacity of 700,000 barrels and a production capacity of 12,000 barrels of oil per day...
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Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract by ENI US Operating for the Appaloosa development project in the Gulf of Mexico. This project consists of the tie-back of the Appaloosa well located in Mississippi Canyon, 145 nautical miles (268 kilometers) offshore Mobile, Alabama at a water depth of approximately 2,825 feet (860 meters), to the Corral platform...
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Eni has started production from its Longhorn gas field located in the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi Canyon Blocks 502/546, 60 miles off the Louisiana coast.Eni operates the Longhorn field with a 75% working interest, while Nexen holds the remaining 25%. The field will initially produce gas at a rate of approximately 200 million standard cubic feet of gas per day from four subsea wells in water depth of 2,500 feet which are connected to the Eni-operated Corral platform, previously known as Crystal...
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Technip has been awarded by Eni Norge AS an engineering, procurement,construction and installation contract, worth approximately €200 million, for the Goliat field development. Goliat will be the first Norwegian oil producing field north of the Arctic Circle in the Barents Sea. The field is located approximately 85 km northwest of the city of Hammerfest on the Norwegian coast...
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Overview: An introduction to the MIST programme:In 2007 the industry workforce via the “Boots on for Safety” campaign identified basic safety knowledge and awareness as a key concern throughout the UK offshore oil and gas industry. A Step Change in Safety Leadership Workgroup was formed to improve safety performance by applying best practice training at a consistent level across industry in safety critical areas...
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Meridian Surveyor Gyro for hireThe Meridian Surveyor boasts a wide range of interfaces to enable use on any marine vessel. The unit utilises a DTG gyro elementwhich provides exceptional performance with an accuracy unmatched by even the latest fibre optic designs. Unlike conventionalspinning mass gyrocompasses, the Meridian Surveyor uses a dry tuned element (DTG) that removes the need for routine maintenance thereby significantly reducing cost of ownership...
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Centrica is accelerating plans to build two giant offshore wind parks in the North Sea to allow it to qualify for extra subsidies that could be worth hundreds of millions of pounds.The two projects at Race Bank and Docking Shoal, off the Norfolk coast, are expected to cost about £1.5 billion each to build. But if Centrica, owner of British Gas, places an order for the turbines before March 31, it will clinch an extra 33 per cent in government subsidies for up to 25 years — transforming the economics of the projects...
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Providence Resources reports the successful acquisition of a new 2D seismic survey over its Oil Mining Lease 113 (OML 113) in the Benin Embayment, offshore Nigeria. This new 2D survey was acquired by Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) using the vessel M.V Falcon Explorer and extended over a total line length of c. 130 kilometers.OML113 contains the Aje Field, which is operated by Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited ('YFP'), with Chevron Nigeria Deepwater H Limited ('Chevron') acting as Technical Advisor to the Operator...
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Following spaces available on the Plymouth, UK training courses for 2009.Week 40 29th Sept to 02nd Oct Fusion USBL 4 spaces availableWeek 43 20th to 22nd October Dimona LUSBL 5 spaces availableWeek 45 03rd to 05th November Fusion USBL 2 spaces availableWeek 46 10th to 13th November Fusion LBL 6 spaces availableWeek 47 17th to 19th November Dimona LUSBL 5 spaces availableWeek 49 01st to 04th December Fusion LBL 6 spaces availableWeek 50 08th to 10th December Fusion USBL 5 spaces availableThese places will be allocated on a first come first served basis...
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