Ivanhoe Energy and SBM Offshore formed a global strategic alliance to create floating, production, upgrading, storage and offloading vessels (FPUSO). The design, the companies say, will economically produce and upgrade heavy oil from…
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been selected as a strategic partner by AWE to provide implementation services at Aldermaston in Berkshire. The four-year contract, the value of which has not been announced…
Leading Rope Access Specialists, AquaTerra Solutions Ltd, has been awarded a multimillion pound three year contract for its specialist access services in Leg Intervention Work. The contract work scope, which includes an array of construction and upgrade work…
Ex-Saipem CEO appointed Samsung Offshore COO Michel LaineSamsung Engineering has appointed Michel Lainé as chief operating officer of its newly established offshore segment, effective December 20, 2012.Lainé’s career in offshore began in 1982 with ETPM…
Foster Wheeler has acquired Three Streams Engineering, a privately held engineering company in Calgary, Canada. The acquisition is part of Foster Wheeler’s strategy to grow its upstream capabilities.
Tush Doshi succeeded the retiring James Moore as COO of Kentz's specialist EPC business unit last month. A former director of gas and power in Amec's power & process division, Doshi served most recently as VP of Jacobs' European and African field services division.
FMC Technologies and Edison Chouest Offshore formed a joint venture based in Houston to provide integrated vessel-based subsea services for offshore oil and gas fields globally. The JV will offer equipment intervention, riserless light well intervention…
Three Streams EngineeringFoster Wheeler buys Canadian engineering firmFoster Wheeler has acquired Calgary-based Three Streams Engineering for an undisclosed amount.Three Streams is a multi-discipline full service engineering, procurement…
Richard Jenkins has joined Claxton Engineering as VP operations. Previously with Hamworthy, Baker Hughes and Seaweld Engineering, he served most recently as Amec’s operations director for West Africa.
Amec is acquiring a 50% stake in Kromav Engenharia, a privately owned Brazilian engineering firm with over 400 marine and offshore projects to its credit. Based in Rio de Janeiro, Kromav has a team of some 200 people specialising in engineering services for offshore platforms…
Dave Workman (pictured), CEO of Stork Technical Services, has been elected chairman of the UK’s Offshore Contractors Association (OCA). He replaces John Pearson, Amec Natural Resources’ MD for Europe and West Africa, who handed over…
Craig Muir has been appointed MD of Petrofac’s engineering & consulting services business and will be based in the Sharjah office. Most recently Muir was Amec’s Abu Dhabibased EVP responsible for regional growth in the Middle East, Africa and the CIS.
‘Securing Safe, Smart, Sustainable Supply' is the highly alliterative theme for this year's Offshore Europe conference, to be held in Aberdeen 6-8 September. It will be chaired by Amec chief executive Samir Brikho.--It is not just about having energy…
Prompted by practical engineering needs, Foster Wheeler Upstream developed a design tool to facilitate the design of subsea plate mudmats. Dr Jinming Xu, Paul Schank and Ray Young discuss how Mudmatician, through automation and built-in intelligence…
FIRMSSubsea 7 has entered a global technology partnership agreement with CRC-Evans Pipeline International. Under the agreement CRC-Evans' automatic welding, coating and testing technologies will be installed at the Subsea 7 pipeline fabrication spoolbases in Angola…
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