UK’s maritime workers union yesterday slammed a decision by Shell to hire the Allseas’ ‘Pieter Schelte’ vessel for the Brent field decommissioning project.

Statoil’s board of directors has appointed Eldar Sætre as new president and CEO.

Reach Subsea and MMT Sweden have recently finalized offshore tests on a new Survey ROV (SROV) Surveyor Interceptor, owned by the two companies in a JV, from the vessel Edda Fonn.

Chevron’s subsidiary Chevron Mauritania Exploration Limited has reached an agreement to acquire a 30 percent non-operated working interest in Blocks C8, C12 and C13 offshore Mauritania from Kosmos Energy.

Searcher Seismic, in conjunction with project partner, BGP, has announced the 2015 GroupSeis campaign over the North West Shelf, Western Australia.

Development drilling has started at the Ichthys gas-condensate field, about 200 kilometres off the Western Australian coast.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) UK has informed that an offshore services company, Bilfinger Salamis UK, has been fined for serious safety failings following an incident in which a worker died after plunging 23 metres from a platform into the sea.

BG Group, one of UK’s largest energy companies will reduce its capital expenditure for 2015, as a response to a lower oil price environment.

Talisman Sinopec Energy UK is reportedly making a move to change the shift patterns for its offshore workers.

Maritime union RMT has slammed Shell UK’s decision to award to Swiss-based Allseas Group SA the contract for the decommissioning of three of its Brent platforms that are situated on the UK Continental Shelf using its newest vessel, the Pieter Schelte, for the task.