The Board of Directors of Oslo Børs resolved at its meeting on 25 September 2013 to admit shares in Odfjell Drilling Ltd to listing on Oslo Børs. Admission to listing will be on a conditional basis (‘if and when sold’) until the third day of listing in accordance with Section [...]

The platform supply vessel ‘Blue Protector’ was delivered from Ulstein Verft on 23 September 2013. The vessel is owned by Blue Ship Invest and managed by Atlantic Offshore. The vessel is going to the spot market in the North Sea. ‘Blue Protector’ is the final newbuild in a series of [...]

Germany’s industry federation has released a proposal for reform of the nation’s renewable energy strategy, calling for it to be enacted in the new government’s first 100 days. Key to the trade body’s plan are strategies for abolishing the feed-in tariff (FiT) for renewable energy and instead allowing market mechanisms to determine [...]

Scottish Water has unveiled plans to build a 3.1 mile-long waste water tunnel in the south of Glasgow. The £100m sewer tunnel will run between Queen’s Park and Craigton industrial estate via Pollok and Bellahouston parks. It will be the biggest storm water storage tunnel in Scotland and will improve [...]

The ERTMS test programme has entered its second phase, Network Rail has said. In-cab signalling is being tested on the Hertford Loop ahead of its wider roll-out across the network, starting with the GWML and the southern end of the EMCL. The only part of the country where its signalling [...]

Offshore Solutions BV (OSBV), the joint venture between AMEC and Cofely Nederland NV, has signed a North Sea contract with Maersk Oil UK to provide marine access support to the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Global Producer III. Located 185 miles north east of Aberdeen, Scotland, OSBV’s Offshore [...]

Wates Group  has announced that Andrew Davies, head of BAE Systems maritime division, will take over as chief executive in the New Year. His appointment follows Paul Drechsler’s decision to step down after nearly 10 years running the construction business. Davies is currently managing director of the maritime division which [...]

Train performance for period 6 was 92.3%, down from 94% in the same period last year – but up a full percentage point on period 5. Network Rail has apologised to the customers of East Coast, which had the period’s worst figures with only 83.4% of services on time. Network [...]

Kongsberg Seatex has now given the users of the sophisticated eBird® system the ability to equip SmartWing® with two additional features – a compass and a GNSS receiver. The innovative approach of placing a GNSS receiver in the wings opens new opportunities for improving the efficiency of an operation – [...]

McLaren Construction has been given the thumbs up by planners to convert the former Bow Street Magistrates Court in London into a hotel and police museum. Now the firm can start converting the Grade II-listed building into a boutique hotel, with the court room becoming a restaurant. Old cells in [...]

Labour’s shadow chancellor Ed Balls has given the strongest signal yet that the party might drop its backing for HS2. The party says it is not yet planning to come out against the project, which got off the ground largely thanks to the efforts of its former transport secretary, Lord [...]

The Troll project is now at the peak of its construction period, Norwegian company Aibel said today. Around 850 Aibel employees and subcontract personnel are working on the new modules that will increase the lifetime of the Troll field. Friday saw the last major lifting effort in Thailand. Section 514 [...]