AGR Seabed Intervention and Marin have, over many years, established themselves as world leaders in their respective fields with proven capabilities to execute high level engineering and technical operations globally. The two ultra deep-water specialist recovery and excavation companies have decided to form a strategic alliance in a move that [...]

Construction is now underway on an iconic 45-storey circular twisting residential tower in London Docklands. CJ O’Shea is the design and build contractor on the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed Baltimore Tower. Completion is due in the summer of 2016 on the development by Galliard and Frogmore in partnership with [...]

The London Assembly has called for a review of the cost-benefit case for HS2, while saying it continues to support the “principle” of high-speed rail. But it said that “as the potential detrimental impacts to London become clearer”, it is important that the project addresses concerns over environmental damage, costs [...]

From 11 to 14 June 2013, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of Teekay Petrojarl (TKPJ) and the company’s design and building of Knarr FPSO. The activity concerned the areas of working environment and logistics (materials handling, cranes, lifting appliances and lifting equipment). The objective of the [...]

Trina Solar Limited, a global leader in photovoltaic modules, solutions and services, announced today that it has recently supplied 7 MW of photovoltaic modules to Ikaros Solar, a leading company dedicated to the installation of green solar energy systems, for an agricultural project in the UK. Large-scale solar systems will [...]

Warrington-based Daniel Contractors and Land & Marine Project Engineering collapsed owing £27m to unsecured trade creditors. The mountain of trade debt at main trading firms Daniel Contractors and Land and Marine Process Engineering is revealed in an initial report from administrators Deloitte. Adminsitrators have warned there will be little left [...]

The former head of ScotRail, Mary Grant, who helped FirstGroup secure the franchise is to work on National Express’s bid to win it back. The Scotsman has reported that Grant, currently working on international projects for the transport group as managing director for business development, will from next year work [...]

Norwegian Kvaerner yard this morning held a sail away ceremony for yet another jacket built for an oil industry client. The 9.400 tonnes Quarters Utility jacket, loaded on a Heerema-owned barge, will be deployed at the Clair Ridge project in the UK, on its location west of the Shetland Islands. “This [...]

ALL four export cables have been installed at RWE npower renewables’ flagship Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm off the North Wales coast. The final subsea cable burial was completed between the coast and one of the two offshore substations on Tuesday 2 July. In addition, half of the foundations [...]

Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil) has received consent to use the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig for plugging and facilitation of sidetrack drilling at well 35/11-R-12 H Vega Sør. Well 35/11-R-12 H Vega Sør is part of production licence 090C in the northern part of the North Sea, and is operated [...]

Balfour Beatty believes it will “broadly break-even” for the year as a better second half makes-up for a disastrous first six months. In its latest update to the City today, Balfour said it was still trading in line with management expectations in the wake of April’s £50m profit warning. Balfour [...]

Joysticks, 3-D glasses, and room-sized stereoscopic views of some of the tiniest things in the universe — scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) now have a new way to view and interact with their data. Researchers from national labs, universities, and utilities get a human-sized embodied [...]