Photo: From left: Remi Eriksen, Group President and CEO at DNV; Liv Hovem, CEO of DNV’s Accelerator; Teemu Salmi, CEO at Nixu; Jari Nisk, Chairman of the Board at Nixu.   DNV, the global risk management and quality assurance provider, will fully acquire Helsinki-headquartered cyber security services firm Nixu following a public tender offer which resulted in DNV taking ownership …

Decommissioning work has started which will finally close the chapter on the decades-old oil terminal at Nigg, operated by Repsol Sinopec Resources UK (RSRUK). RSRUK confirmed that Liberty Industrial, contracted to carry out the work, has kicked off efforts for the decontamination, demolition and site remediation of the 75-acre Highlands facility. The Nigg Oil Terminal was commissioned in 1981 by …

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have been handed £125 thousand to develop their wind turbine recycling process. Professor Vasileios Koutsos and Dr Dipa Roy are developing a technique to turn old wind turbine blades into powders that could be used to protect engineering and structural components, including new wind turbine blades. The powders could be used in surface coatings, to …

BiSN collaborated with the major operator Sasol in Mozambique to successfully qualify the Wel-lok™ CRT tool to begin the partnership ahead of a campaign in the country. As part of the first run BiSN and Sasol logged the resulting plug via a cement logging tool to prove the effectiveness of a Wel-lok™ seal with great success. To read the full …

Photo: Tony Alfano, Pipeline Product Line Director at DNV Digital Solutions   REN Portgás, one of Portugal’s leading natural gas distributors, has upgraded to DNV’s Synergi Gas Automated Model Builder to boost quicker and better-informed decision-making as they prepare for the new energy mix. With the upgrade, REN Portgás can now build gas network models in a matter of days instead …

“Do it because you want to, not because you have to” – that’s the mantra at J&S Subsea Limited where a focus on the company’s ESG and renewable energy journey opening doors to exciting new opportunities and gaining recognition thanks to a recent award win. Two years on from a management buyout of the subsea controls engineering division of SEA …

DNV and Siemens Energy are about to take additive manufacturing (AM) – also known as 3D-printing – into the next stage of maturity. Siemens Energy’s experts in Finspång, Sweden, have developed the first generation of the AM Cockpit platform providing automated, reliable quality control of the 3D metal printing process. In turn, DNV has developed the Independent Quality Monitor (IQM) …

Ushering in a New Era of Growth Unique Group, global innovators in subsea technologies and engineering, has announced the appointment of Sahil Gandhi to the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), succeeding Himanshu (Harry) Gandhi, who will now assume the position of Chairman of the Group. Acting as Unique Group’s COO since 2017, Sahil has previously held Executive Director and …