I have a role that has come up for a European 2nd officer for a Dive Support vessel to be based in the North Sea   They need the following qualifications:   UKOOA medical (oil and gas) and their home country medical if British it will be a ENG1 European module BOSIET (basic offshore safety [...]

Another explosion, this time on a production platform in the GOM. More bad news for an already beleaguered part of the world.

Interesting Article from the Guardian here. Seems to me environmentalists are hijacking the Horizon incident for themselves as opposed to any sort of rational argument on the issues.   Given that Greenpeace's fleet of vessels uses oil in some form or another, I think they might be accused of hypocrisy to some degree?

The fighting continues between Halliburton, BP and Transocean. Surely with BP running the contract they must take ultimate responsibility? If their systems were robust enough then both Halliburton and Transocean would not have been able to be lax. Is that not what a companyman is for, to keep an eye on the well as it [...]

Cairn have sold 51% of their Indian stake for a cool £5.4bn. Can't be too unhappy about that!   Seems the moratorium hasn't been as bad as people thought it would be for jobs, but to be honest, it's still too many for something so pointless.   On the rumour mill, companies are already starting [...]

is this irony? I am still unsure whether the Washington post did it on purpose, or didn't read the article properly or check thesource…

Interesting article about the jack up market here.  

Not much else to say really, I'm surprised that Nabors have recovered enough to buy such a big company, but they obviously have. Article here

Spoke to a few guys this last week who are at Frontier at the moment, and will be changing to the Noble brand very soon. Apparently there have been a few offers to people at substantially less than they are on at the moment. Just goes to show how much of an impact a buyout [...]

Interesting article here about the effect on jobs in the Gulf due to the moratorium. Although with some luck, it might be lifted early.       A few jobs on. Looking for Tourpushers, HSE people, Fishing Tools Supervisors and directional drilling supervisors. Check out the website www.xltecrecruitment/jobs   Finally, follow us on Twitter @xltecrecruit