Oslo-headquartered oil services firm AGR has expanded its TRACS Training offer to cover the Norwegian market. The news was launched at ONS Norway today (Monday 19 August 2013). The expansion will seek to repeat the success of AGR’s TRACS Training in Aberdeen, recognised as one of the world’s top training [...]

The Government has published its latest online update on public sector construction opportunities worth £109bn. A new website portal is now available listing construction work up to 2020 and byond. The 1,000 plus projects pipeline has been updated following the latest Spending Round. Work available includes: Over £3.3 billion of [...]

Watching Apollo in action in its dedicated darkroom in the European Solar Test Installation (ESTI) in Ispra, Italy, puts a whole new sizzle on PV calibration: shutters slowly swing open revealing an array of 11 zenon lamps while several feet ahead a curtain draws aside. The air conditioning system provides [...]

Pressure is growing on the Government to dump its HS2 high speed rail plans as economic experts predict the cost of the project could soar to £80bn. The figure represents £3,000 for every household in the country. Research from the Institute of Economic Affairs warns that lobbying for new links [...]

Statoil Petroleum AS, operator for production licence 479, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 6506/9-3. The well was drilled about 5 km north of the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea. The primary exploration goal for the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks [...]

E.ON today started construction of its operations and maintenance building on the North Sea island of Helgoland. E.ON will use Helgoland as an offshore operations base for its Amrumbank West offshore wind farm. The 1,800 square metre building will provide space for offices, changing rooms and storage. Up to 50 [...]

Galliford Try will start construction next month on Birmingham’s new dental school and hospital on the site of the former BBC Pebble Mill studio. Contracts have been signed on the job following financial close on what is to be the first integrated, stand-alone dental hospital and dental school to be [...]

UK: A Bombardier Electrostar electric multiple-unit leased by Greater Anglia is to be fitted with two types of battery to study the feasibility of operating electric trains on non-electrified lines. Infrastructure manager Network Rail envisages that Independently Powered Electric Multiple-Units could be used to bridge gaps on otherwise electrified routes, [...]

Tata Steel will demonstrate its ability to deliver pipeline solutions to some of the world’s most challenging and complex projects at this year’s ONS Norway in Stavanger. With global energy demands ever-increasing the industry is turning its attention to deeper and more challenging environments. Tata Steel products will continue to [...]

Design work for the Bank station upgrade has been awarded to URS. London Underground Limited (LUL) awarded the £536m project to Dragadas SA in July. URS will deliver design management and assurance for civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical and electrical engineering, as well as tunnelling architecture, pedestrian flow modelling, planning and [...]

Statoil ASA has signed an agreement to divest minority interests in the Gullfaks and Gudrun fields offshore Norway and exit the non-core, non-operated Schiehallion and Rosebank fields, West of Shetlands. In addition to the cash consideration of USD 2.65 billion, the transaction with Austrian oil and gas company OMV includes [...]

Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS (KOGT), a wholly- owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen ASA (KOG), has signed an agreement with Statoil for the delivery of subsea structures, in-line tee’s, tie-in and connection systems for the Polarled gas pipeline. The vaule of the contract is NOK 380 million (approximately $65 [...]