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UK awards 52 oil and gas licences

The UK Government has awarded a second tranche of 52 oil and gas production licences as part of the 27th Oil & Gas Bidding Round. Read more…

Osborne announces tax break for UK shale

Chancellor George Osborne has announced a tax break for shale gas exploration in the UK in his 2013 Autumn Statement.
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WorleyParsons scoops Vladivostok prize

Gazprom has awarded WorleyParsons a US$63 million FEED contract for the Vladivostok LNG production and export facility in the Primorsky region of Russia. Read more…

Wood Group wins Hess FEED, Gulf of Mexico

Wood Group Mustang has been awarded the contract to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for Hess Corporation’s Stampede tension leg platform (TLP), in 3,500 feet of water in Green Canyon block, Gulf of Mexico. Read more…

AMEC lands US$124m PMC contract, UAE

Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA OPCO) has awarded AMEC a five-year Project Management Consultancy services contract for phase two of the Umm Lulu offshore field development, UAE. Read more…

CB&I secures US$1bn contract for US ethylene plant

Ingleside Ethylene, a joint venture between Occidental Chemical Corporation and Mexichem, has awarded CB&I an EPC contract for an ethane cracker and associated utilities at OxyChem’s complex in Ingleside, Texas.
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GE secures Saudi power contract

Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has awarded GE a contract worth nearly US$700 million for F-class combined-cycle gas turbines, associated equipment and services to be deployed at PP13 and PP14 combined-cycle power plants in Saudi Arabia. Read more…

AMEC awarded framework contract by Horizon Nuclear Power

Horizon Nuclear Power has awarded AMEC one of three framework contracts to provide specialist engineering and technical design services for its two proposed nuclear power plants in the UK.  
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UK Govt shakes up renewables support

The UK Government has published details of the Contract for Difference (CfD) strike prices for renewable technologies, along with an update to the key CfD contract terms, pledging its support to delivering an ‘achievable’ 10GW of offshore wind. Read more…

Funding available for offshore renewable innovation, East of England

Orbis Energy has launched the £2.5 million Supply Chain innovation for Offshore Renewable Energy (SCORE) funding programme to support SMEs in the East of England who are developing innovative products or services for the offshore renewables industry. Read more…

 

EBRD commits €280m to coal-to-gas conversion, Russia

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed a seven-year loan of approximately €280 million to Inter Rao Group for the conversion of a Russian thermal power plant from coal to gas.
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Shell floats Prelude FLNG hull

The 488 metre hull of Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility has been floated out of the dry dock at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) yard in Geoje, South Korea, where the facility is currently under construction. Read more…

 

Ellis secures Chinese nuclear specification

Ellis is supplying Emperor cable cleats and ProTect cable straps to the Taishan Nuclear plant in Guangdong province, China after securing Chinese nuclear specification.  Read more…

 

Heerema opens fabrication yard, Poland

Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has opened a fabrication facility in Opolethe, southern Poland to manufacture small offshore steel structures and substructures to be used in offshore production platforms. Read more…

SGS awarded pipe inspection contracts for TMK in Russia

SGS has been selected by TMK-Kaztrubprom to provide field inspection services of pipes on the Zhaikmunai project, Kazakhstan. Read more…

Statoil hit pay with wildcat

Operator Statoil and its partners, Eni Norge and Petoro, have made an oil and gas discovery in the Skavl prospect in PL532, close to Johan Castberg in the Barents Sea.
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Statoil makes oil discovery in Norwegian Sea

Statoil and its partners have hit oil in the Snilehorn prospect, located approximately 15km north-east of the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea. Read more…

Lundin completes Torvastad exploration well, Norway

Lundin Petroleum has completed the Torvastad exploration well in PL501, north of the Johan Sverdrup discovery in the Norwegian North Sea. Read more…

Statoil hits pay in Barents Sea

Statoil and its partners have made a gas discovery in the Iskrystall prospect in PL608 in the Barents Sea. Read more…

Statoil hits pay at Svale North

Statoil and its partners in the PL128 licence area have discovered oil in the Svale North prospect in the Norwegian Sea.  
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Lundin finds oil in Barents Sea

Lundin Petroleum and its partners have made an oil discovery in the Gohtha prospect in PL492, 35km north of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea, Norway. Read more…

JOHAN CASTBERG FIELD

Barents Sea, Norway

JOHAN SVERDUP

North Sea, Norway

SNILEHORN OIL DISCOVERY

Norwegian Sea, Norway

SVALE NORTH OIL DISCOVERY

Norwegian Sea, Norway

SKALLE GAS DISCOVERY

Barents Sea, Norway

SMORBUKK NORTH GAS

Norwegian Sea, Norway

TITAN (RWE) OIL DISCOVERY

North Sea, Norway

NORVARG GAS FIELD

Barents Sea, Norway

 
 

24 January 2014

Corporate Entertainment:

Burns Supper 2014

Ardoe House Hotel, Aberdeen

 

01 February 2014

Overseas Delegation:

Algeria, Africa

 

04 February 2014

EIC Training:

Networking that Works

EIC Conference Suite, London

 

09 February 2014

Overseas Delegation:

Mozambique & Tanzania, Africa

 

10 February 2014

Overseas Delegation:

Mumbai and New Dehli, India

 

11 February 2014

Corporate Entertainment:

Opportunties with Bechtel

The Sofitel Hotel, Abu Dhabi


28 February 2014

Corporate Entertainment:

The Oil Barons Ball

Meydan Racecourse, Dubai


05 March 2014

EIC Training:

An Introduction to Plant Commissioning Management

EIC Conference Suite, London


19 March 2014

Overseas Exhibition
CIPPE 2014

Beijing, China


27 March 2014

Corporate Entertainment
Pembroke Supper 2014

Cleddau Bridge Hotel, Pembroke Dock

 

 

 

 

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