Oil & Gas UK, the representative organization for the UK offshore oil and gas industry, announced the appointment of a number of member company representatives and a new team of officers to lead its board. All changes are of immediate effect…
Sometimes it’s not all about throwing the latest bells and whistles at a production facility – its best to keep it simple. Elaine Maslin looks at how an eductor has kept a gas field going. Seajacks’ Kraken working at the DPPA…
Amec Foster Wheeler's outspoken CEO Samir Brikho has stepped down today, the firm announced this morning. Ian McHoul, the firm's CFO, has been appointed into the role of interim CEO with immediate effect and will chair the group leadership team while the search for the new CEO is conducted…
The shortlist for the 2016 Offshore Achievement Awards, supported by OE, has been announced today. With approximately 100 entries received this year, a record since the awards were re-launched in 2011 by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section…
A joint venture between Amec Foster Wheeler and Clough, Clough AMEC, has been awarded a three-year contract by ConocoPhillips to provide asset support, operations and maintenance services to the Bayu-Undan offshore field development, located in the Timor Sea…
A major study is underway to identify new processes and technologies that can be applied to asset integrity challenges in the UK offshore oil and gas industry. Lockheed Martin has been commissioned to conduct a technology landscaping…
Amec Foster Wheeler announces today that it has been awarded three contracts by BP to provide services to the Glen Lyon floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel as part of the Quad 204 project, 175km west of the Shetland…
Ingen Ideas, an Amec Foster Wheeler company, has been awarded an £8 million contract by Marathon Oil for multi-discipline engineering contract on Marathon Oil’s Brae Complex in the North Sea. The contract started in October 2015 and will run for five years…
Marathon Oil has awarded Ingen Ideas, an Amec Foster Wheeler company, a contract worth approximately £8million. The five-year multi-discipline engineering contract covers Marathon Oil’s Brae Complex in the North Sea. The contract started in October 2015 and will run for five years…
Advances in two areas of asset integrity are being targeted by a new oil and gas industry project being led by Total E&P UK and Amec Foster Wheeler under the direction of the Technology Leadership Board, which could unlock £1 billion of revenue…
Some 40-50% of savings or efficiency gains need to be made if the industry is going to survive the low oil price regime we are in, an industry event was told in Aberdeen today. 'For us to survive this long-term, to get by on the oil price as it is…
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported today (23 October) that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) intends to increase its production 30% by 2020 using EOR techniques. For the UAE, EOR technologies will be the best way to…
Image: Garry Dryburgh, Amec Foster Wheeler’s president for the Middle East and Africa with engineering manager Bindu Satheesh at the opening of the company’s new office in Abu Dhabi/Amec Foster Wheeler Amec…
The speakers at Wednesday's Oil & Gas UK economic report release highlighted the need for a major transformation to take place within the oil and gas industry. All noted that problems in the UKCS began long before the decline in oil prices…
Oil & Gas UK has launched an Efficiency Task Force (ETF) – a group tasked with driving improvement, making the sector more competitive, and supporting the drive to maximize economic recovery from the UK Continental Shelf. Oil & Gas UK…
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