BW Offshore, an Oslo-based owner of FPSO units, has informed that it has expanded its board of director from five to six members. The company has appointed Clare Spottiswoode CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire)  a Director of BW Offshore Limited with effect from 27 August 2013. [...]

Contractors are being called up to bid for a new four-year framework in North Wales covering mainly its “21st Century School” building programme. Denbighshire County Council is leading the procurement competition which aims to find 15 contractors for the three lots for jobs of different sizes. The North Wales Schools [...]

Wintershall Norge AS has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of wells 16/1-19 S and 16/1-20 S in production licence 457 in the Norwegian North Sea using the Borgland Dolphin mobile drilling rig. Water depth at the site is approx. 113 metres. The planned start-up is September 2013 with [...]

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wintershall a drilling permit for well 35/9-10 S, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Well 35/9-10 S will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic drilling rig at position 61°15’07.02” north and 3°41’04.10” east for Wintershall Norge AS in production licence 418. The [...]

Seadrill, a drilling contractor owned by John Fredriksen, a Norwegian-born Cypriot oil tanker and shipping tycoon, has failed in an attempt to takeover all the shares in Sevan Drilling company. In a filing to the Oslo Stock Exchange, the drilling contractor announced that it has received acceptances of the offer of NOK 3.95 [...]

EnQuest will have a new prestigious North Sea base in the Granite City after planning permission was granted for a high quality office development on the derelict Aberdeen Seafood Park site in the harbour area. The firm, which is the largest UK independent oil producer in the UK North Sea, [...]

Norwegian shipowner Eidesvik which earlier this month entered into a memorandum of agreement for the sale of the vessel Viking Forcados to an undisclosed buyer, today announced that delivery of the vessel to new owners took place today. The Viking Forcados is a multi purpose support vessel designed to support diving, ROV and topside operations, [...]

Aker Solutions, a Norway-based provider of oilfield services, has secured a contract from Statoil to conduct an extended concept study for the floater for the Johan Castberg oilfield development in the Barents Sea. The contract, worth NOK 250 million, includes options for further work. “This is an exciting opportunity to [...]

LONDON -- We hear a lot about the need to balance variable renewables with gas or energy storage, in order to integrate them into the grid. But this week Europe’s solar sector has called for a market rule change that would allow solar photovoltaic (PV) installations themselves to offer balancing services [...]

Network Rail has awarded telent a Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) contract for Scotland’s Far North and West Highland lines. Radio infrastructure will be replaced to allow operational enhancements to signalling on rural single track lines from Glasgow to Oban via Fort William and from Inverness to the North Coast [...]

Renew has been forced to write-off £2.9m in its upcoming results following the failure of a string of subcontractors at its former regional building operations. The company said: “Following the previous closure of certain regional Building businesses, the Board has decided to make an exceptional provision of £2.9m against certain [...]

Norwegian owner of offshore support vessels Havila Shipping has announced that Statoil has decided to extend contracts for two of its vessels. According to a notice issued by Havila today, Statoil has declared the first option for the RRV vessel Havila Troll, and also the Norwegian oil giant has excercised 3 months option for [...]