Update on Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
BP today provided an update on developments in the response to the MC252 oil well incident in the Gulf of Mexico. BP continues to work with the guidance and approval of the National Incident Commander and the leadership and...
SGS to Present its Renewable Energy Services at the North American Offshore Wind Conference & Exhibition 2010
From October 5-7, 2010 SGS will be one of the exhibitors at the North American Offshore Wind Conference & Exhibition 2010. At stand no. 313, SGS experts will be demonstrating the wide range of services available for the wind...
SGS Sponsors the Inaugural Peruvian Energy & Infrastructure Finance Forum in Lima
On September 14, 2010, SGS attends the inaugural Peruvian Energy & Infrastructure Finance Forum at the JW Marriott Hotel in Lima, Peru as a silver sponsor. SGS will participate in the Maple Ethanol case study and will talk about...
Constellation NewEnergy Holds Executive Seminar to Help Erie Region Businesses Maximize Electricity Investment Value
As true electric competition expands throughout Pennsylvania, Constellation NewEnergy, a subsidiary of Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG), today announced it will host an executive seminar on competitive electricity options at the...
328 new apprentices at premium training provider ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
Wanted for 2011: Process mechanics and electronics technicians for automation engineering
BP to Sell Malaysian Ethylene and Polyethylene Interests to Petronas
BP today announced that it has agreed to sell its interests in ethylene and polyethylene production in Malaysia to PETRONAS.
Skanska secures road assignment in North Carolina in the U.S. for USD 43 M, or about SEK 315 M
Skanska has signed a road-construction contract in North Carolina in the U.S. The contract value totals USD 43 M, or about SEK 315 M, and will be included in third-quarter order bookings. The customer is the U.S. Marine’s...
KBR Awarded Contract by Chemetall Foote Corp. for Lithium Hydroxide Operation Expansion
KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced that its Downstream business unit has been awarded a contract to provide engineering and procurement services to Chemetall Foote Corp. (a subsidiary of Rockwood Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ROC)) for the...
Extended workbench: ThyssenKrupp Nirosta consolidates stainless steel service center operations
ThyssenKrupp Nirosta is to concentrate all its stainless steel service center operations in a single unit in the future. In addition to the Nirosta Service Center (NSC) based in Wilnsdorf (near Siegen), it will include EBOR...
Skanska to build shopping center in Trondheim, Norway, for NOK 477 M, approximately SEK 570 M
Skanska has secured a contract to build a shopping center in Trondheim in Norway. The contract amount is NOK 477 M, approximately SEK 570 M, which is included in order bookings for the third quarter of 2010. The customer is KBS...
Siemens to build combined cycle power plant in the Netherlands
Siemens Energy has received an order from the Netherlands for turnkey construction of a combined cycle power plant. Purchaser of the 435-megawatt (MW) plant Diemen 34 in the vicinity of Amsterdam is the Dutch utility Nuon, a...
SGS to Demonstrate its Professional Owner’s Representative Services at the DIREC 2010 in India
On October 27-29, 2010 SGS presents its wide range of Wind Energy Services at the Delphi International Renewable Energy Conference (DIREC) 2010 with special focus on its Owner’s Representative Services. The DIREC 2010 will take...
Contract for three new helicopters awarded
Statoil has awarded Bristow Norway a 10-year contract for three helicopters to fly from Flesland heliport in Bergen from 2012.
RWE Innogy and German Pellets inaugurate the "Wittgenstein double"
RWE Innogy and German Pellets today officially inaugurated RWE's biomass-fuelled cogeneration station and the neighbouring pellet plant as part of a site presentation in the Wittgenstein industrial estate. NRW Pellets GmbH is the...
Milestone: Duisburg-Bruckhausen meltshop of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe produces 150 millionth ton of steel
The 864-strong workforce at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe’s BOF meltshop in Duisburg-Bruckhausen had special cause to celebrate: On August 25 at 11.51 o’clock they produced the 150 millionth metric ton of crude steel – enough in...
SGS Conducts Pipeline Welding Inspection for SEPTA Energy Limited in Nigeria
Due to its excellent reputation for professional and reliable Pipeline Welding Inspection, SGS Industrial Services was awarded the contract to provide independent welding inspection for a new 60km pipeline project in Nigeria by...
Siemens Energy partners with OpenSpirit to support the Microsoft® Oil & Gas Reference Architecture
Siemens Energy and OpenSpirit announced their intention to partner on an architecture enabling XHQ Operations Intelligence users to access data from all geoscience applications and data stores compatible with OpenSpirit. This...
KBR Awarded Second Contract by BP for West Nile Delta Development
KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that it has been selected by BP to undertake the second stage of concept selection and definition for the onshore terminal and export pipelines for BP’s West Nile Delta Development in Egypt.
BP Deploying Advanced Unmanned Water Quality Monitoring Vehicles in Gulf of Mexico
As part of its long term monitoring and research program in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is deploying a new technology that will enable nearly constant monitoring by two satellite-controlled, unmanned vehicles.
Snorre on course for 2040
All of 900 million barrels of oil equivalents on Snorre confirm Statoil’s faith in another 30 years’ production on Tampen.
Siemens seal-less compressor completes test program for future subsea processing
STC-ECO – the Siemens seal-less compressor unit for dirty-gas and subsea applications has successfully completed its factory test program. Following a highly comprehensive program aimed at qualifying the unit for subsea gas...
Industry first – Rockwell Collins and DARPA demonstrate UAV aerobatics on a fixed trajectory
As part of its ongoing damage tolerance research contract with the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Rockwell Collins has demonstrated the first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to fly aerobatics with position...
Rockwell Collins reaches new heights in UAV damage tolerance flight testing
Rockwell Collins today unveiled the results of successful flight tests with dramatically increasing levels of damage on an unmanned F/A-18 subscale model air vehicle. The results were discussed during a news briefing at AUVSI's...
Real-time failure detection sensor system performs successfully in Shadow UAS flight tests
In recent flight tests on the Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS), Rockwell Collins demonstrated a new technology that is able to perform real-time data monitoring and analysis while in flight to alert UAS operators...
KBR Awarded Contracts by The Republic of Iraq Ministry of Oil for Grassroots FCC and ROSE© Units at Maissan Refinery
KBR (NYSE:KBR) today announced that it has been awarded two contracts by the Republic of Iraq Ministry of Oil through the South Refineries Company. KBR will provide licensing and basic engineering services for the construction of...