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Contractor News Archive: October to December 2004 |
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| Surviving in the World's Terror Hotspots | 01/10/2004 |
Training specialists RGIT Montrose join forces with security firm AKE Ltd, to launch personal security courses aimed specifically at energy company employees whose jobs may lead them into danger zones.  |
| Optimism of North Sea Contractors | 28/10/2004 |
| Survey shows Contractors becoming more optimistic about the future of the North Sea oil and gas industry as petroleum prices rise irrespective of no improvement in trading conditions. |
| Fire on Forties Charlie Brought Under Control | 03/11/2004 |
| Investigations begin into cause of fire on Forties Charlie oil platform. Apache, the owners of the platform, said the electrical fire had broken out in an unmanned control room. |
| Gas Leak Scare On North Sea Platforms | 30/11/2004 |
| Investigation launched after 114 oil workers airlifted from the Brae Alpha platform, 155 miles North-east of Aberdeen. Around 180 workers also evacuated from the floating Snorre A platform north-west of Bergen. Both platforms in the UK and Norwegian sectors suffered gas leaks. |
| Power Failure on BP Clair | 03/12/2004 |
| BP Clair North Sea installation lost full power on Wednesday evening after electrical fault affected main generator. No one injured or evacuated, but led to partial loss of power overnight. |
| Expro Set to Increase Workforce | 07/12/2004 |
| Expro International set to add another 30 to its workforce in Aberdeen next year as the company reported favourable market conditions in the North Sea and increased profits in the first six months of this financial year. |
| KBR Announce Changes To Staff Terms & Conditions | 20/12/2004 |
| KBR in Aberdeen and Leatherhead have outlined the alterations to staff terms & conditions considered to be an ongoing international "belt-tightening" exercise. Bob Keiller, managing director of KBR Production Services, met with employees last Thursday in Aberdeen to end speculation about sweeping alterations such as wage cuts, plus more job losses in Aberdeen after 12 recent redundancies. |
| KBR Contractors Killed In Iraq | 22/12/2004 |
| Four KBR employees and three subcontractors were killed, and some personnel were severely wounded, during yestderday's attacks inside a U.S. base near Mosul in Iraq. Halliburton and its subcontractors have lost 62 personnel whilst performing services under contracts in the Kuwait-Iraq region. |
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