HOUSTON, June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Wood Group's Alliance Engineering has promoted Darin Hittle to the position of vice president of business development and marketing.

Primary resources major BHP Billiton has announced that its Neptune tension leg platform in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, which began production on July 6, 2008, has five of six wells on line and has already ramped up oil production to full design capacity of 50,000 barrels of oil per day.

A researcher has a vision: Four hundred huge offshore wind turbines are providing onshore customers with enough electricity to power several hundred thousand homes, and nobody standing onshore can see them. The trick?