The worldwide offshore rig count in July 2019 went up by 10 units compared to June, and 45 year over year, according to monthly rig count reports by Baker Hughes, a GE company. BHGE splits its rig counts into international and North America rig counts, which combined make the worldwide [...]

Contract with Orsted for 1386MW offshore wind farm to protect array and export cables. Orsted has selected UK outfit Tekmar Energy to provide cable protection systems for the 1386MW Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm off the east coast of England. Tekmar will provide its TekLink Generation 8 Mechanical Latch system [...]

Australian oil and gas firm Woodside has awarded Boskalis a contract for seabed intervention and shore crossing for the proposed pipeline at the Scarborough field, one of the most remote of the Carnarvon Basin gas resources offshore W. Australia. Woodside’s preferred concept for the development of the 7.3 Tcf (2C [...]

Brazilian oil company Petrobras is seeking to auction off a 2010-built ultra-deepwater drillship. The company is planning to sell the Vitoria 10000 drillship via an international electronic auction in September. The Vitoria 10000 is a sixth-generation drillship built by Samsung, under the Samsung 10000 design. The rig – initially owned by [...]

Developer asks Boris Johnson to raise 2030 development target by 10GW. SSE has called on UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to raise the target for installed offshore wind capacity in the UK by 2030 to 40GW from 30GW. In a letter to the Prime Minister published today, SSE chief executive Alistair [...]

Bureau is delighted to be continuing work with TechnipFMC who they have supported since 2013 with technical resourcing solutions. Bureau are the preferred supplier for all roles within their Process Technology & PMC Division in their Milton Keynes office. TechnipFMC is a global leader in subsea, onshore/offshore, and surface projects. [...]

New initiative aims to help increase the number of people working in the sector. The Offshore Wind Industry Council has set up an Investment in Talent Group to help increase the number of people working in the offshore wind industry in the UK. The group, which is meeting today for [...]

Bureau is delighted to be involved with the inspection services to the Hewanorra International Airport Project, providing various disciplined inspectors for the manufacturing surveillance activities at various manufacturing and vendor sites. The Hewanorra International Airport Project is a USD $175 million investment to re-develop St. Lucia’s international airport into an [...]

It has been a busy day down at Bureau HQ where we have been working with HBP Systems on a video project which will talk about our business, and the new system we have recently had implemented to accelerate our business growth. As part of our ongoing brand development, we [...]

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) is examining investments in Russia’s gas sector as part of growing ties between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Russia. UAE eyes Russia investment Meeting in Moscow in early July, Adnoc CEO Sultan al-Jaber and Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak discussed investment opportunities in [...]

Dutch company Visser & Smit Hanab completes installation of 66kV cabling for 12MW prototype offshore wind turbine. Dutch company Visser & Smit Hanab has installed 66kV cabling for GE's 12MW Haliade-X offshore wind turbine prototype at Maasvlakte, Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. The cable will connect the turbine to the high-voltage [...]

The European Union is set to sanction Turkey over ‘illegal’ drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean offshore Cyprus. The EU will, among other sanctions, stop high-level dialogues with Turkey and will reduce pre-accession assistance to Turkey for 2020. First, Reuters last week reported it had seen documents showing that the EU was [...]