
Aker BP forms two separate drilling & well alliances
Aker BP ASA has entered into two separate alliance agreements, one with Maersk Drilling and Halliburton for Jack-Ups, and one with Odfjell Drilling and Halliburton for semisubmersibles.
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Aker BP ASA has entered into two separate alliance agreements, one with Maersk Drilling and Halliburton for Jack-Ups, and one with Odfjell Drilling and Halliburton for semisubmersibles.

New survey findings from Petrotechnics, the developer of the hazardous industries’ first software platform for operational excellence, reveals that Operational Excellence (OE) remains central to firms’ enterprise-wide strategies and is now delivering tangible results.

Fulkrum Technical Resources, a global provider of technical personnel specialising in QA/QC, inspection and vendor surveillance services to the energy industry, has expanded its Asia-Pacific business with the launch of an office in Kuala Lumpur.

Craig International has signed a five-year procurement contract for all Premier Oil’s maintenance and repair operations in the UK North Sea.

Expro has been awarded a five year contract extension for surface well testing services across several assets for an operator in the UK North Sea.

CGG has announced the delivery of the final time-processed data from its Northern Viking Graben multi-client 3D BroadSeis™-BroadSource™ survey. This includes 35 000 sq. km of subsurface images across the Norwegian Northern North Sea.

Consent has been given to drill exploration well 6506/11-10 in a prospect named Hades & Iris.

GC Rieber Shipping ASA's 50% owned geoservices company Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a 3D broadband marine seismic acquisition contract by ONGC for the planned 2017/2018 field season.

The specialist well abandonment company has secured a three-year framework agreement with TAQA Bratani Limited for the provision of intervention management services for all their North Sea assets.

The company’s ERRV Ocean Troll, will provide Emergency Response and Rescue services for Maersk Oil’s Culzean project in the central North Sea. The Charter is the first Fire Fighting Class II (Fi-Fi II) ERRV to have operated in the UK sector.

The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, a partnership between Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh, will lead a consortium that includes Imperial College London, the University of Oxford and the University of Liverpool.

Transformational change to emergency response training revealed at OSCC to save industry a million hours of training time per year.