Northern Offshore Appoints New Senior Vice President

Northern Offshore, Ltd. announced today that Mr. Gary L. Bauer has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Operations. Gary W. Casswell, Northern Offshore’s president and CEO, said “Gary is a welcome addition to Northern Offshore, and we are very pleased to have him join our team. His extensive experience with operations and international... 

Spectra Energy Files FERC Application for New Jersey-New York Expansion

Spectra Energy Corp today filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the expansion of its Texas Eastern Transmission and Algonquin Gas Transmission interstate pipeline systems to transport new, critically needed natural gas supplies to high demand markets in northern New Jersey and New York City.The New Jersey-New... 

Northern Offshore Announces New Contract Award for Jackup Energy Enhancer

Northern Offshore, Ltd. announced that its subsidiary, Northern Offshore U.K. Ltd., was awarded a contract with Ithaca Energy (UK) Limited (“Ithaca”), a subsidiary of the Canadian independent oil and gas company Ithaca Energy Inc., for the jackup Energy Enhancer. The one well tie back and completion program in the Jacky Field, Inner Moray... 

Vattenfall Acquires Britain’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

Vattenfall has acquired the Thanet Offshore Wind project off Margate, Kent, for the sum of GBP 35 million (SEK 435 million). On completion, the wind farm will have an installed capacity of some 300 MW. This will be almost three times the size of Lillgrund, Vattenfall’s largest wind farm in Sweden to date, and about the same size as Horns Rev in Denmark,... 

Vattenfall and ScottishPower Renewables Join Forces for Round Three

Two giants of the renewables industry, Vattenfall and ScottishPower Renewables, have entered into partnership to make joint bids in the third round of offshore wind farm development in the UK. Their common goal is to establish 6,000 MW of installed wind power capacity, corresponding to enough clean green energy to power four million homes by 2020. ScottishPower... 

Vattenfall AB acquires Eclipse Energy UK PLC

Vattenfall is Europe’s fifth largest generator of electricity and the largest producer of heat, and works in all parts of the electricity value chain. In the UK, Vattenfall owns and operates the Kentish Flats offshore wind farm, which has a capacity of 90 MW. It is also the world’s second largest offshore wind power operator, with a 60 per cent... 

Vattenfall Acquires AMEC Wind Energy ltd

Vattenfall AB, the fifth largest electricity generator in Europe, today announced the acquisition of 100% of AMEC Wind Energy Limited (‘AMEC Wind’), a major UK developer of commercial wind farms for cash consideration of around 126.6 million GBP (equalling about 1.6 billion SEK or 160 million EUR). This move positions Vattenfall to further expand... 

Venoco, Inc. Announces Exercise of Option

Venoco, Inc. announced that Denbury Resources Inc. has elected to exercise its option to purchase the Hastings complex from Venoco. Denbury and Venoco also entered into an amendment to the option agreement extending by one year certain of Denbury’s performance commitments with respect to implementing a CO2 flood in the Hastings complex. “This... 

Proserv Renames Recently Acquired Twachtman Snyder & Byrd and Circle Technical Services

Proserv Offshore LLC announced that Twachtman Snyder & Byrd (TSB) has changed its name to Proserv Decommissioning Contractors & Engineers Inc. and Proserv Abandonment Services, and Circle Technical Services has changed to Proserv Marine and Subsea Technology. All three represent business units within the Abandonment & Decommissioning...