Tullow Oil plcannounces that the OMV-operated Wisting Alternative well (7324/7-1S), offshore Norway in the Barents Sea, has reached Total Depth. The well was not appraising the major discovery at Wisting Central and encountered oil shows in the deeper targeted Kobbe and Snadd formations but the reservoir rock was of poor [...]

The Government has launched a public consultation on plans to transform the Highways Agency. The proposal will see the agency become a government-owned company along similar lines to Network Rail. The new “Network Road” body will benefit from a long-term framework for infrastructure investment with guaranteed spending cycles. Ministers hope [...]

Leading renewable consultancy companies TÜV SÜD PMSS (PMSS) and SMRU Marine Ltd with their academic partner the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) have recently delivered a series of position papers which have gathered evidence from published research and interviews with key industry representatives regarding how wave and tidal energy devices [...]

The influential Commons Public Accounts Committee has said the timetable for delivering new trains onto the Thameslink route is “demanding and risky” and calls it “alarming” that no public sector option was considered to fund the new trains. But the MPs on the Committee praised the DfT as sponsor for [...]

Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has secured a two year contract extension from Shell UK to deliver integrated services to two gas plants in Scotland; the St. Fergus Gas Terminal and Fife Natural Gas Liquids Plant (which includes the Braefoot Bay Marine Terminal). Effective April 2014, the award marks the continuation [...]

RENEWABLE energy developer Current2Current Ltd are delighted to confirm their prototype has  recently been producing electricity in the North Sea enabling the company to move ever closer  to securing its future as a renewable energy production company. Generating electricity from ocean currents and tides, the TEC (tidal energy converter) is  [...]

Sales volumes of aggregates, ready-mixed concrete and asphalt continued to rise sharply in the thrid quarter of the year. The latest figures collected by the Mineral Products Association offer evidence of a more sustained recovery in industry fortunes after an improvement in the early summer. Aggregates, asphalt and ready-mixed concrete [...]

The Government has now published the new business case for HS2, claiming a benefit-cost ratio of 2.3 for the full Y-shaped network – down slightly from the previous estimate of 2.5. The DfT has launched a new 153-page ‘Strategic Case for HS2’, plus new economic documents published by HS2 Ltd. On the benefit-cost [...]

Damen Shipyards Galati has handed over the third Platform Supply Vessel in a series of six to World Wide Supply of Norway. This six-ship order heralds a new era in offshore construction for Damen Shipyards Group. World Pearl is built to Damen’s entirely new PSV 3300 design. The first of [...]

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Dolphin Geophysical has won three new 3D seismic contracts with undisclosed clients, which will improve contract visibility for the remaining part of 2013 and 2014. Two new contracts will be performed in Mediterranean waters, starting immediately. The third contract is a 3D seismic contract over an existing producing field in the North Sea, which combined [...]

Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) continues to deliver on its strategy to grow its green energy capacity in Singapore, commencing commercial operations of a S$30 million expansion to its Sembcorp Woodchip Boiler Plant on Jurong Island. The expansion triples the output of the plant – which produces renewable energy from woodchip, a [...]