NXG Drilling Services has announced the appointment of a former Weatherford UK Managing Director to its senior management team. With nearly 40 years’ oil and gas industry expertise, Ian McCartney has been announced as Non-Executive Chairman. He will play a key strategic role in supporting NXG’s plans for international growth in the manufacture and supply of products and services to the drilling sector. NXG has invested more than £2m in new offices at Altens, Aberdeen, and a m

Leading hydraulic bolting tools manufacturer, Enerpac, has been accredited as the first Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) approved training provider in mainland Europe for Mechanical Joint Integrity. The company’s European training academy at Ede in The Netherlands meets and exceeds all ECITB requirements. Enerpac supplies a wide range of hydraulic torque wrenches and tensioning tools for bolting applications. The Enerpac European training academy is pa

Energy services company, Proserv officially opened its new purpose-built Centre of Excellence recently within Great Yarmouth’s Beacon Park. Developer, Great Yarmouth Borough Council, together with New Anglia LEP and key stakeholders, joined Proserv at the 65,000 sq ft ‘Artemis House’ – named after the site’s ‘Artemis 2G’ (A2G) subsea control system technology - to mark the occasion with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Artemis House is the largest site within Beacon Park, featuring

This year, Project Development International (PDi) Ltd - part of the Tattva Group - celebrates a significant milestone in its history, with the company achieving a decade of activity within the decommissioning sector. As a leading provider of multi-disciplined engineering, project management and project services to the international energy industry, PDi has worked with multiple clients since 2008, successfully completing more than twenty decommissioning workscopes. Recently s

Well construction specialist, DeltaTek Global, has announced two successful onshore field trials of its innovative SeaCure system, resulting in subsequent offshore trials with two North Sea operators this summer, as part of a project backed by the Oil & Gas Technology Centre. SeaCure is a pioneering subsea cementing system, delivering stabbed in inner string cementing for subsea wells. Providing significant time and cost benefits, SeaCure’s initial ‘proof of concept’ trials t

Those drilling experts Merlin ERD Ltd, have done it again, attracting further exceptional engineers to work at the HQ in Perth, Scotland. Stewart McGregor is the latest Extended Reach Drilling expert to join this double Queen’s Award winning team. Merlin are a huge success story unlocking hydrocarbon reserves previously deemed uneconomic and slashing drilling costs with their innovative approach and technologies. “Great people are everything and our efforts to protect our tec