A rig working for Afren has had several crewmembers kidnapped off the rig, the Transocean High Island VII Jack up.   Link here

Although this is just UK figures, maybe this represents a more general trend across the industry? Having said that, they said that 84.9% of the staf were UK nationals, but what this highlights is that we still need 15% of our workforce from outside. I think this is a great thing, but with the upcoming [...]

Very interesting Rigzone article here about the UK industry reaction to the new immigration cap.   Key elements from the article:   – Total were allocated 2 visas for their £2bn campaign for Shetland! – The cap may affect Inter Company Transfers, meaning that only UK/EU candidates will be able to work on projects won [...]

The Uk have granted 144 new licences, but they have held back 99. May be a sign that things aren't going to be as easy as they were in the wake of Macondo.   Link here

So we are getting everything up and running now, we have a new company profile on Linkedin here, our twitter feed is @xltecrecruit our Facebook page will be up and working very soon.   These are all good ways to keep track of what we are doing, and you can also check out the website [...]

East Timor are working with ENI and Reliance for some deepwater drilling work to commence soon. Link here

6 weeks early, the moratorium is over. Hopefully things will pick up nice and quickly.   Nice to have some good news about the whole Macondo mess.

Looks like Europe are also keen on increasing restrictive legislation on oil and gas. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6961AO20101007

Looks like it'll be over on November 30th.

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