An offshore worker who died in an accident on a diving support vessel in the North Sea has been named as a man from Northumberland.
David Stephenson, a crewman on the Well Servicer, was airlifted to hospital following the accident during sea trials off the coast of Aberdeen in north east Scotland on Wednesday last week.
The Midlands Diving Chamber is a new diving recompression chamber based at the NHS Hospital of St Cross in Rugby, Warwickshire. The new facility was set up by London Diving Chamber and is now open to treat divers with decompression illness.
Dr Ian Sibley-Calder will be the Senior Doctor at Midlands Diving Chamber, an experienced Diving Doctor, who has worked in diving medicine since 1992 and writes a regular medical Q&A column in Diver Magazine.
WASHINGTON, DC — About 154,000 high-paying manufacturing jobs in Louisiana depend on access to oil and natural gas on the US Outer Continental Shelf, federal officials were told at the second of four public hearings on Apr. 8.
Louisiana industries use oil and gas not only as energy but also as feedstocks for a wide variety of petrochemicals, testified Virginia Sawyer, vice-president of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, at the US Department of the Interior’s hearing on a draft proposed 5-year OCS plan in New Orleans.
JUNEAU, Alaska — The state of Alaska has denied a petition from Exxon Mobil seeking permission from regulators to form a new oil and gas unit at Point Thomson.
Exxon this week asked the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to unite the leases of different companies within the Point Thomson oil and gas field so it could be developed, the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News reported Wednesday.
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – North Vancouver Island will soon be home to the first commercial-scale tidal current electrical turbine in North America.
The B.C. government announced last week that it is giving $2 million in funding to Canoe Pass Tidal Energy Corporation for the project.
HOUSTON — After years of flirtation, it seems that the U.S. Gulf of Mexico has finally seduced Exxon Mobil Corp.
The Irving, Texas, oil giant said in a financial and operating review released Monday that in 2008 it obtained 142 leases to explore for oil and gas in the offshore Gulf — up from five tracts a year before and seven in 2006. This level of interest is a sign that the area, once considered a wild frontier, has reached maturity in the eyes of the largest oil company in the U.S.
by Phaedra Friend
With massive deepwater finds in the pre-salt layer, as well as the Campos and Santos Basins, Brazilian state-owned Petrobras pledged an investment of $174.4 billion for 2009 to 2013. With a firm commitment to exploration and production, the company hopes to become one of the five largest energy companies in the world.
In an interview with Rigzone, a Petrobras executive explained that the company was able to achieve its recent successes because it invested when times were tough.”This allowed the company to develop in deepwater oil production, in the ’80s when only a few companies could do it because the prices were not lucrative,” explained Decio Fabricio Oddone da Costa, CEO of Petrobras Energia.
Alistair Birnie, chief executive of Subsea UK, is among a number of oil and gas trade associations who met with Energy Minister, Mike O’Brien, at the House of Commons last week.
The meeting was for Government to hear how the current economic climate is impacting across the industry and for the bodies to articulate their members’ views and suggestions on what Government can do to help.
The investigation into the cause of the North Sea helicopter crash which killed 16 people began yesterday with the examination of the aircraft’s wreckage and cockpit voice and flight data recorder.
The fuselage was recovered from the seabed 15 miles off Peterhead and brought ashore to Aberdeen harbour early yesterday before being transported to the Air Investigation Branch (AAIB) headquarters at Farnborough, Hampshire.
Oil & Gas UK, the leading representative body for the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry, has today (Wednesday, 8 April 2009) established a task group to address cross-industry issues arising from last week’s tragic helicopter crash off the north-east coast of Scotland.
The Helicopter Accident Issues Task Group is formed of senior industry managers, primarily representatives of the companies directly involved in the fatal accident as well as some members of Oil & Gas UK’s Board or Council.
