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Energy Hub secures funding from bp and Scottish Enterprise

17 March 2023   ETZ Ltd, the not-for-profit company tasked with spearheading North East Scotland’s energy transition ambition, has secured £1.25m from global energy firm bp and £2m support from Scotland’s national economic development agency Scottish Enterprise to begin construction of....

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BP and EnBW set up Scottish supply chain portal

11 May 2021   BP and EnBW have launched a Scottish supply chain portal site for their future ScotWind projects. The type of company that they are interested in hearing from covers quite a range and will include many DeepWind member....

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bp announces oil discovery in Gulf of Mexico

14 April 2021   BP announced an oil discovery at the Puma West prospect in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The well, on Green Canyon Block 821, was drilled by bp on behalf of co-owners Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Talos Energy.....

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Open-source data platform released for energy industry

24 March 2021   The Open Group, the vendor-neutral technology consortium, today announced the OSDU Data Platform Mercury Release. Developed by The Open Group OSDU™ Forum, the OSDU Data Platform is an Open Source, standards-based and technology-agnostic data platform for the....

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Total and BP make gas discovery in shallow waters

28 July 2020   Total, bp and Eni (as the Operator) have made a gas discovery with the Bashrush well on the North El Hammad license, located eleven kilometers off the Egyptian coast. The well encountered 102 meters net gas pay in....

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BP reports profits down but remains committed to net-zero targets

28 April 2020   In a press release issued today, BP said: Underlying replacement cost profit for the first quarter was $0.8 billion, compared with $2.4 billion for the same period a year earlier. The result reflected lower prices, demand destruction in....

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TechnipFMC Awarded EPCI Contract for BP Platina Field in Angola

10 March 2020   TechnipFMC has been awarded a 'significant' (up to $250m value) integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (iEPCI™) contract from BP Angola for the Platina field development, located offshore Angola in Block 18 at water depths ranging from....

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BP extends multi-million-pound vessel contract with Vroon Offshore Services

28 February 2020   Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) Ltd has secured a three-year contract extension with BP, worth around £30million. One of the largest providers of emergency response and rescue vessels (ERRV) in the North Sea, VOS will continue its exclusive provision....

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Oceaneering Awarded Riserless Light Well Intervention Contract by BP

17 February 2020   Oceaneering International, Inc ("Oceaneering") announced the award by units of BP plc ("BP"), of a contract to provide comprehensive riserless light well intervention (RLWI) services offshore Angola in Blocks 18 and 31. The value of this meaningful....

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TechnipFMC awarded Seagull North Sea deal by Neptune, BP

07 August 2019   French engineering firm TechnipFMC has been awarded a North Sea contract for the Seagull development by joint venture (JV) partners Neptune Energy and BP. more [source: Energy Voice] .

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North East offshore firms set for double boost as sector bids for growth

11 June 2019   A group of engineering companies will today showcase their services to some of the world’s top energy companies at an event in Newcastle, while an initiative has been launched to revolutionise skills training for the sector. more [source:....

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Vroon Offshore Secures BP Contract in Trinidad and Tobago

27 May 2019   BP Trinidad and Tobago LLC has awarded Vroon Offshore Services Aberdeen a multiple year, multi-million pound contract. This award will see industry recognised North Sea emergency response vessels and expertise transferred to international waters. Vroon Offshore, the North Sea’s....

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Engineers of the Future go Head to Head at RGU ROV Competition

17 April 2019   The engineers of the future will go head to head at Robert Gordon University this week (Wednesday April 17) when they put underwater robots, which they have designed and built, to the test as part of an....

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BP awards contracts to BHGE, McDermott for Greater Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas project

17 April 2019   McDermott International, Inc and Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE) have announced that they have been awarded subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) and subsea production system (SPS) equipment contracts by BP for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim....

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BP and Enpro Subsea announce Global Frame Agreement

05 March 2019   BP and Enpro Subsea (Enpro) announce the execution of a Global Frame Agreement aimed at providing an enhanced subsea architecture and smart standardisation using Enpro’s patented Flow Access Module (FAM) technology. Enpro Subsea supplied the FAM technology....

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Subsea 7 seals substantial North Sea asset deal with BP

28 February 2019   Deepwater services firm Subsea 7 has announced a multi-million pound deal with BP for assets in the northern North Sea and west of Shetland. The exact contract value was not disclosed, but it is worth somewhere between....

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BP plans for significant growth in deepwater Gulf of Mexico

11 January 2019   BP announced that it has approved a major expansion at the Atlantis field in the US Gulf of Mexico and has also identified significant additional oil resources that could create further development opportunities around the production hubs....

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Aker Solutions to Provide Brownfield Services for BP in Angola

04 October 2018   Aker Solutions has been awarded a five-year agreement to supply brownfield modifications, maintenance and operations support for BP's Greater Plutonio and PSVM fields offshore Angola. The scope of work covers the supply of engineering, procurement, and construction....

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BP Announced as Lead Operator Sponsor at MCE Deepwater Development 2019

05 September 2018   Gulf Quest LLC is pleased to announce that BP will be the Lead Operator Sponsor of MCE Deepwater Development 2019 (MCEDD), which will be held 2-4 April 2019 at the Novotel London West. As Lead Operator Sponsor, BP....

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BP awards Heriot-Watt University £1.25million for energy economics research

05 February 2018   Heriot-Watt University has been awarded £1.25million by BP plc to continue its energy economics research and as the partner for its annual energy benchmark reports, the BP Statistical Review of World Energy and the BP Energy Outlook. The....

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BP exploration discoveries mark positive start for North Sea in 2018

31 January 2018   Oil & Gas UK says two new exploration discoveries in the North Sea by a supermajor mark a more positive start to the year for the UK’s offshore industry. BP today (Wednesday 31 January) announced successful discoveries in....

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Aker Solutions to Provide Subsea Production System for Aker BP's Aerfugl

11 December 2017   Aker Solutions was awarded a contract from Aker BP to deliver the subsea production system for the first phase of the Aerfugl development offshore Norway. The award was made on behalf of the Skarv Unit and is....

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BP gains further Ironbark extension

10 October 2017   Cue Energy Resources has granted a further extension to supermajor BP to mull over the option of acquiring stake in the Ironbark prospect offshore Western Australia. BP subsidiary BP Developments Australia has already been given several extensions on....

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Safety champions announced at industry awards

23 August 2017   The people and companies doing their utmost for offshore safety were recognised for their efforts at a key industry event. The winning entries of six categories were announced at the Offshore Safety Awards, jointly organised by Oil....

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BP Fires Up Juniper Off Trinidad

15 August 2017   BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) announced first gas from the Juniper development, the fifth of BP’s seven upstream major project start-ups planned for 2017. The project is expected to boost BPTT’s gas production capacity by an estimated 590....

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Cautious optimism for North East offshore sector suggests worst of oil crisis has passed

22 June 2017   There was a refreshing mood of cautious optimism at a major offshore industry conference in Newcastle. "Two years ago delegates were talking about what they wanted to happened and now we’re talking about what is happening,” said Subsea....

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BP and partners commence production from Quad 204 project in west of Shetland

22 May 2017   The UK project is the third of seven new upstream major projects expected to come on stream for BP in 2017. BP, on behalf of co-venturers Shell and Siccar Point Energy, is pleased to announce first oil from....

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Progress for BP at Mad Dog 2

05 May 2017   BP is happy with progress it has made so far in early work on its Mad Dog 2 development in the deep-water US Gulf, writes Kathrine Schmidt. The UK supermajor already has its major contracts in place with....

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BP finds hidden trove of oil in Gulf of Mexico via new subsea imaging

28 April 2017   BP has discovered 200M barrels of oil in a hidden cache in the Gulf of Mexico, in the latest example of oil companies advancing technology to make unexpected discoveries.

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BP to sell Forties Pipeline System to INEOS

03 April 2017   BP announced it has agreed to sell its Forties Pipeline System (FPS) business, with assets including the main Forties offshore and onshore pipelines and other associated pipeline interests and facilities, to INEOS. Subject to partner, regulatory and other....

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