Floatel International, a Sweden-based owner of accommodation units for the offshore oil and gas sector, has been hit with another safety incident in less than a year. A footbridge, used everyday by 100 workers who walk from the Floatel Superior accommodation unit to the nearby Kvitebjorn platform in the Norwegian [...]

The Government has finally unveiled its changes to Part L of the Building Regulations. But the beefed-up rules will not come into force until April 2014 when new homes and non domestic buildings will have to include energy saving features such as better fabric insulation and more efficient heating and [...]

Network Rail has announced improvements to the West Coast Main Line around Watford to improve punctuality and reliability. The £81m scheme will take place over five closures throughout 2014 to avoid closing the line completely over 54 weekends. Work will include renewing three junctions around the station to improve the [...]

Offshore Installation Services Ltd (OIS), an Acteon company, has launched a new service designed to help operators fulfill their suspended well decommissioning plans. Wellintel is a well data collection and review service that gathers and prepares the information operators require before they start a decommissioning program. OIS engineers with extensive [...]

Scottish communities are set to benefit from £100,000 new funding, transport minister Keith Brown has announced. The funding forms the latest round of the Stations Community Regeneration Fund (SCRF). Previous rounds have awarded almost £900,000 to improve community space around Scottish stations. Projects have included turning disused space into community [...]

Five new board members have been appointed to the British Transport Police Authority, rail minister Simon Burns has announced. Stella Thomas will represent the interests of Welsh passengers, Catherine Crawford will represent those travelling by rail, and Andrew Pollins, Dominic Booth and Mark Phillips will represent the interests of service [...]

Technip was awarded by Chevron North Sea Ltd a substantial engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPIC) contract for the Alder field. For Technip, a “substantial” subsea contract is ranging from €100 to €250 million. Chevron is developing the Alder field as a subsea tieback to the Britannia Bridge Link Platform [...]

In advance of a vote on a European directive that will shape the Union’s future policy for biofuel use in the transport sector, an annual report published today by renewable energy analysis group EurObserv’ER shows a far from booming market. Despite ongoing uncertainty around biofuels legislation, EurObserv’ER's Biofuels Barometer called [...]

Government plans to delay the implementation of changes to Part L of the Building Regulations for at least six months have come under fire from manufacturers. Documents published by the Department for Communities and Local Government show that there is no intention to implement Part L changes this year, despite [...]

Network Rail was responsible for 60% of delays in the last period, new statistics show, as the punctuality figures for period 4 are published. PPM has fallen to 91.1%, from 93.1% the month before – the same period last year saw performance at 92.1%. The new results cover the period [...]

Eurocopter has delivered a fourth EC225 helicopter to Denmark’s DanCopter A/S – which operates the rotorcraft for crew change missions to offshore oil and gas platforms in the North Sea. The handover was made at the Marignane, France production facility of Eurocopter, and will be followed by the helicopter’s ferry [...]

In mid June, I received two very different press releases from two environmental groups announcing the same event: The Bureau of Land Management’s release of the Final Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed SunZia high voltage transmission line that would stretch from central New Mexico to the fringes of Phoenix, [...]