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Helping families overcome tragedy

Houston-based US $130,000 to beneft a higher

Black Elk Energy and Oilfeld Helping Hands education fund established for organized a fundraiser for six fami- children of the victims. Sponsors of lies affected by the accident at the the event included GOL Shooting company’s West Delta 32 platform Range, Grand Isle Shipyard, Phoenix last November. The sporting event, Offshore Solutions, and SEMPCheck.

held in Maurice, Louisiana, raised

Ivanhoe Energy and SBM over the next year. Expro also plans lectures, well drilling management formed a global strategic to invest $20 million in newbuild practice with original-sized simu-

Offshore alliance to create foating, produc- well testing equipment. lators and a two-week internship tion, upgrading, storage and offoad- as an alternate drilling supervi-

Rosneft ing vessels (FPUSO). The design, partnered with Grubkin sor on Stena Drilling’s ships and the companies say, will economi- Russian State University of oil and platforms. After successful pro- cally produce and upgrade heavy Gas to develop a new training pro- gram completion, the trainees will oil from offshore felds with crude gram for offshore drilling supervi- receive Drilling Management, IWCF, oil quality down to 10° API gravity sors. The one-year program includes and IADC WellCAP international or lower. With engineering support seven, full-time two-week mod- certifcates.

from AMEC, the two companies ules. Courses will include expert

Alderley completed a conceptual design of Engineering company

FZE an FPUSO that will upgrade up to , part of the Alderley Group, 60,000 b/d. opened a new offce building in Jebel

Ali Free Zone, Dubai, as part of its

Aberdeen-based independent facilities and production expan-

Ithaca Energy moved to acquire sion. The 1300sq m, two-story offce

Valiant fellow UK explorer building includes dedicated training for US$309 million in facilities, additional meeting rooms

Petroleum early March. Ithaca says the move and upgraded IT infrastructure.

Fugro Chance, Inc. entered a would establish itself as a lead-

Seahorse two-year cooperation agreement ing mid-size North Sea oil and gas Houston-based

Coda Octopus Group Platform Partners Ltd.

with operator with 2P reserves of approxi- granted involving the use of the

Inc.

mately 74MMboe. Ithaca Chairman UK-based Sembmarine SLP Ltd., company’s Coda Octopus

Jack Lee said the two companies’ a subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine,

Echoscope, a patented 3D assets have a strong strategic ft. an exclusive license to use its sonar technology. The deal

SeaHarvester and SeaHorse technol-

Expro grants CODA the ability to apply

Oilfeld services company ogy in the design and construction opened a new well intervention of minimum facilities platforms the Echoscope in a variety of facility in Aberdeen. The facility will in the UK’s territorial waters. The environments, and gives CODA house approximately 200 employees. two companies have also signed an access to Fugro’s data. In turn,

Fugro will work with CODA to

Combined with renovations planned MOU licensing the technology for develop solutions for its clients for the Bruce building, the Carnegie Southeast Asian and Australasia, subsea imagery deliverables.

and Young facilities in Dyce repre- excluding Malaysia and Brunei.

sent a US$7.6 million investment

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