The global arm of Network Rail has landed another foreign contract. Network Rail Consulting, launched in July 2012, is to be the independent safety assessor for the design and delivery of the A$8.3bn (£4.8bn) North West Rail Link in Sydney. Nigel Ash, managing director of Network Rail Consulting, said: “This commission heralds [...]

Kvaerner, a Norway-based contractor for which delivers engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for offshore platforms and onshore plants, has strengthened its presence in Russia by opening an office in Moscow. “We are excited by the opportunities in the Russian Sub-arctic and Arctic regions. Establishing a permanent presence in Moscow is [...]

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), a global leader in the solar PV industry, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Lightsource Renewable Energy, the UK's largest solar energy generator and asset operator, to supply 18.5MWp of solar PV modules for a solar [...]

The Draugen platform in the Norwegian Sea had new living quarters and a new lifeboat frame installed this weekend. “A great feeling. Everything has gone according to plan in connection with the hoisting, and the first major modification project we have undertaken for Shell has reached an important milestone,” Trond [...]

Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, known for its safety, time and cost saving capabilities, has been awarded a contract for the supply of surface exploration wellhead equipment services, worth approximately £750,000 from [...]

Seabed Geosolutions has secured a two year contract with Total E&P for its Ocean Bottom Node seismic data acquisition technology. The contract utilises a ‘call-out’ mechanism for each acquisition survey with the option to extend the contract for an additional 24 months. The initial work programme consists of approximately 5 [...]

Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS (KOGT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen ASA (KONGSBERG), has delivered a new real-time well-monitoring and early-warning system to support well construction operations. The technology is part of KONGSBERG’s SiteCom Well Advisor software suite, an integrated well monitoring system that supports well construction [...]

Midlands businesses must capitalise on opportunities in Crossrail, the Annual Construction Conference will hear today. In the last financial year 2,270 full time jobs in the Midlands were supported by Crossrail, and over the course of the project there are an estimated 75,000 business opportunities, supporting the equivalent of 55,000 [...]

Carillion is planning a second major cost-cutting programme at its energy services contracting arm as Green Deal work fails to take off. The firm said it was still finalising the scale of the next round of job cuts but expected streamlining to result in a £40m one-off cost. The announcement [...]

The Gjøa P8 exploration well, 35/9-9 in production license 153 (Gjøa), was spudded early this morning, Friday 4 October. Operator GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS has sublet the semi submersible drilling rig Transocean Barents from Det norske for the operation. Transocean Barents reached its destination in the northern North Sea, [...]

A construction company is among 19 firms facing a criminal investigation over claims they employed private detectives to illegally gather information on their behalf. The Information Commissioners Office has confirmed there are 125 alleged victims of the illegal snooping. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has refused to reveal the names of [...]

Oil & Gas UK has, on October 2, published a suite of documents which highlight the need for the industry to prepare for forthcoming decommissioning projects and increase the efficiency of related processes. The publications feature information gathered on the scale of decommissioning activity to come on the UK Continental [...]