Allseas has won the contract to remove the topsides of the 45-year-old EnQuest (LON: ENQ) Heather platform in the North Sea. The Pioneering Spirit will be mobilised for to remove the topsides, weighing nearly 13,000 tonnes of the platform, around 245 miles north-east of Aberdeen. Read more here

Maersk Training and Nagasaki Marine Industry Cluster Promotion Association (NaMICPA) are pleased to announce the signing of a consultancy agreement, in which Maersk Training provides support to NaMICPA, establishing a brand new state-of-the-art training center in Nagasaki, Japan. The preparations for the training center in Nagasaki is funded by The Nippon Foundation. The collaboration is the next step in securing …

Global controls technology company Proserv has acquired a minority stake in Glasgow based power system monitoring expert, Synaptec, with whom it had initially formed a strategic alliance in October 2020 to drive forward the innovation of disruptive condition-monitoring technologies for the energy sector. Synaptec developed as a spin out business from Strathclyde University in 2014 with its management team, Board …

London, UK – 26 September 2022: DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider has been engaged to provide the evidence required to demonstrate the safe use and conversion of the local transmission systems (LTS) high pressure pipelines for transporting 100% hydrogen.  The gas distribution company SGN manages around 3,100km of the LTS pipelines in the UK and is leading …

An Aberdeen-based intelligent lifting equipment specialist has become the UK’s leading name in the air skate and air moving systems market following two significant acquisitions. LMS (Load Monitoring Systems) has announced the acquisition of ‘Load Moving Systems Ltd’ and ‘AeroGo UK Ltd’ in simultaneous deals which consolidate LMS as the UK’s leading supplier of air skates and associated moving systems, …

DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider, announced today that it has been awarded a contract to perform audit services for Climate Vault, an award-winning non-profit founded at the University of Chicago, working on an innovative approach to carbon dioxide removal (CDR) . Climate Vault’s method of helping organizations eliminate historical CO2 emissions and reduce future emissions involves purchasing emission allowances from government-regulated compliance markets …

Neptune Energy today announced the award of a $30 million decommissioning contract to Well-Safe Solutions, for a campaign covering more than 20 wells located across eight Dutch and UK North Sea fields. It is the first multi-region, multi-well decommissioning campaign award by Neptune to a single rig contractor and will significantly reduce time and costs associated with the work. Well-Safe …

Well-Safe Solutions and Neptune Energy have agreed a contract for the Well-Safe Protector jack-up rig to plug and abandon (P&A) at least four subsea and 21 platform wells in the Dutch and UK sectors of the North Sea. The one-year, firm contract also enables Neptune Energy to take up Well-Safe’s broad range of decommissioning engineering services if required, as well as the …

Petrofac, a leading provider of services to the global energy industry, has secured a three-year contract extension for maintenance services from Serica Energy. Under the terms of the agreement, Petrofac will continue with the provision of maintenance execution, maintenance consultancy and metering services to Serica Energy’s Northern North Sea asset, the Bruce platform complex which processes production from its Bruce, …

Tokyo – ClassNK has signed an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with Maersk Training A/S regarding training for offshore wind farm operators and education for alternative fuel ship crews. Maersk Training is an international industry leader in developing competencies and increasing skills, with over 16 locations worldwide. With over 40 years of experience, Maersk Training specializes in delivering training for the …