Kier’s joint venture with Network Rail has gained planning approval for the £50m regeneration of Redhill station in Surrey. The redevelopment of the station will include a new ticket hall and multi-storey car park, expected to cost around £7m. Alongside this the Solum partnership also aims to build 150 apartments [...]

Lundin Petroleum has announced the flow test rate of the previously announced Gohta discovery of approximately 4,300 barrels of oil per day (bopd). Gohta is Lundin Petroleum’s first oil discovery in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The well 7120/1-3 operated by Lundin Petroleum was drilled on PL492 approximately 35 kilometres [...]

LONDON -- Europe’s debate over the sustainability of its imported biomass feedstock is heating up. While analysts expect biomass to meet roughly half of Europe’s 20 percent-by-2020 renewable energy target, and biomass pellets imported from the southeastern U.S. and British Columbia, Canada are seen as crucial to meeting these targets, there [...]

Construction buyers have reported the fastest rise in residential work for ten year as the industry starts “firing on all cylinders”. Housing schemes led the way as the latest Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index recorded its fifth monthly rise on the trot. But the index jumped dipped slightly to [...]

Prosafe and Elf Exploration UK Ltd have agreed an extension to the firm period for the provision of the Safe Bristolia accommodation support vessel at the Elgin-Franklin Facility in the British sector of the North Sea. The duration or the firm extension period is 61 days starting mid-October 2013. Total value of the firm [...]

The UK’s first ‘Solar House’ to be solely heated by the sun’s energy all year round is up for sale for £1.2m The five-bedroom timber frame property has been built by Caplin Homes in Great Glen, Leicestershire. Solar energy collected in summer is stored by heating the ground beneath the [...]

House builder Taylor Wimpey is planning to start work early next year on a 700 homes redevelopment of the former Somerdale Cadbury’s site in Bristol. Bath and North East Somerset Council has approved the mixed-use scheme at the former factory site in Keynsham, which is expected to create 1,000 jobs [...]

UK gas giant BG Group has concluded an intensive appraisal programme in Block 4 off the southern coast of Tanzania with the successful flow testing of the Pweza-3 probe. The appraisal well was drilled in the Pweza gas field, located about 70 kilometres offshore in about 1400 metres of water, [...]

TFL has already delivered £61m in cost savings on its planned £500m Bank underground station revamp using Innovative Contractor Engagement. The ICE procurement process was piloted on the project for the first time and saw Spanish contractor Dragados clinch the job in July. Any engineering innovation was kept commercially confidential [...]

Developer Knight Property Group has got the planning thumbs up to invest £30m in the redevelopment of Aberdeen’s Capitol Theatre. Andrew Cowie Construction will begin immediately on the listed building, which dates back to 1933, for a 2015 completion. Over the next 18 months, the landmark building will be redeveloped [...]

Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell has started production at the second developmental phase of a block off Brazil. Phase two of development on Block BC-10, also known as Parque das Conchas, sees a fourth reservoir connected to a floating production, storage and offloading unit on the field. Shell is operator of the [...]

TWMA, the leader in integrated drilling and environmental solutions for the international onshore and offshore oil and gas industry, has been awarded a major contract with Total E&P Norge AS to deliver offshore waste management services during the development of the Martin Linge field located on the Northern Viking Graben [...]