Thursday 23 May 2002 New Entrants will By-Pass North Sea as Impact of Tax Change Bites First-time investors considering investment opportunities in UK offshore oil and gas fields are likely to by-pass the North Sea as a result of the tax changes made by …
July 21, 2010 NOAA has selected seven graduate students as national recipients of the Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarships, representing graduate-level scholars in marine biology, coastal resource management, and maritime archeology. The scholarships were …
July 15, 2010 Last month’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made it the warmest June on record and the warmest on record averaged for any April-June and January-June periods, according to NOAA. Worldwide average land surface temperature …
Thursday 23 May 2002 Industry Budget Proposal Will Hit Oil and Gas Investments The UK Offshore Operators Association (UKOOA), the representative body for 30 exploration and production companies in the UK, has raised concerns that investment in the UK …
New multi-year effort to update charts of priority Arctic regions July 20, 2010 Using state-of-the-art echo sounding technology, NOAA Ship Fairweather is detecting navigational dangers in critical Arctic waterways. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) As Arctic …
July 23, 2010 Subsurface Monitoring Stations within 20 km of the Wellhead. Joint Analysis Group (JAG) Review of Preliminary Data to Examine Subsurface Oil In the Vicinity of MC252#1 May 19 to June 19, 2010. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) The National …
Friday 12 April 2002 UK Oil and Gas Sector Sustains Recovery in 2001 The UK oil and gas sector continues to build on the recovery started in late 1999, with capital investment in 2001 up 25 percent on the previous year, production above 4 million barrels …
Tuesday 30 April 2002 UKOOA publishes FPSO Design Guidelines The UK Offshore Operators Association has published a set of guidelines for the design of floating production, storage and offloading installations (FPSOs) destined for service on the UK …
Wednesday 17 April 2002 UKOOA Response to the Budget Statement The UK offshore oil and gas industry is surprised and concerned at the decision to introduce a 10 percent supplementary charge on North Sea profits. The UK Offshore Operators Association (UKOOA …
July 16, 2010 NOAA has selected Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Fla., to develop the antenna system that will support NOAA’s next generation geostationary satellite series, GOES-R. This new series of spacecraft, set to begin launching in 2015, is expected …
Report Finds Decreased, but Stabilized Levels of Dissolved Oxygen in Gulf Areas with Subsurface Oil September 7, 2010 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Office of Science and …
Tuesday 2 September 2003 Check Against Delivery: Opening address from Bruce Dingwall - Offshore Europe 2003 Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Scotland, welcome to Aberdeen and welcome to Offshore Europe 2003. I know many of you have travelled a …
Finding has implications for climate change August 11, 2010 A new NOAA study has found that rain clouds form synchronous patterns in which individual clouds in a large cloud field respond to signals from other clouds, much like chirping crickets or …
Friday 29 August 2003 John Prescott Launches more Opportunities DEPUTY PRIME Minister, John Prescott, officially launched the second year of the oil and gas industrys Opportunities careers roadshow today at AMECs ship yard in Wallsend, as part of a skills …
Friday 1 August 2003 UKOOA Appoints New Economics and Commercial Director The UK Offshore Operators Association (UKOOA) is delighted to announce that it has appointed Mike Tholen, as Economics and Commercial Director. Mike will lead on economic and …
Friday 1 August 2003 UK’s Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Implements the Working Time Directive Today The UK Offshore Oil and Gas Industry has confirmed that it complies with the Working Time Directive that comes in force offshore from today. The Working …
August 10, 2010 Scientists researching the causes and effects of hypoxia in Green Bay, part of Lake Michigan, Wisc., have been awarded $348,037 for the first year of an anticipated four-year $1,367,300 project through NOAA’s Coastal Hypoxia Research …
Thursday 31 July 2003 UKOOA Statement on 21st Licensing Round Awards UKOOA has welcomed the awards made in the 21st licensing round today. Steve Harris, Acting Director General said, The licensing round has been one of the most successful of recent times. …
Massive fishing effort also involves chefs to introduce “delicious” fish to consumers August 6, 2010 A new study looking at how to curb the rapid growth of lionfish, an invasive species not native to the Atlantic Ocean, suggests that approximately 27 …
Thursday 24 July 2003 UKOOA Welcomes New Entrant Paladin Resources plc, one of the new wave of independent North Sea oil and gas operators, has joined the UK Offshore Operators Association (UKOOA), the representative body for exploration and production …
