Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Petrobras to provide a subsea production system and related services for the Mero 1 project within the Mero field development, one of the largest oil discoveries in Brazil's pre-salt area.

Aker Solutions has been awarded a five-year agreement to supply brownfield modifications, maintenance and operations support for BP's Greater Plutonio and PSVM fields offshore Angola.

Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”), and its bid consortium member Chevron Brasil Óleo & Gás Ltda (“Chevron”), have won a 35-year production sharing contract for the Saturno pre-salt block located off the coast of Brazil in the Santos Basin. Shell will pay its share of the total signing bonus for the block, equating to approximately USD $390 million [R$ 1,562 billion].

The crude oil production from the newly acquired 25 % interest in the Roncador oil field in Brazil will be lifted and transported by shuttle tankers. Equinor has now entered into time charter contracts for two newbuilt shuttle tanker with the shipowner Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers AS (Knutsen). The tankers will be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea.

In the first half of 2018, U.S. natural gas supply and demand grew significantly compared to the first half of 2017.

Stress Engineering Services, Inc., (SES), a global leader in consulting engineering services, has delivered a state-of-the-art real-time drilling riser and wellhead monitoring system (RFMS®), in conjunction with its Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) process for Noble Corporation’s ultra-deepwater drillship Noble Tom Madden.

Equinor has signed an agreement to acquire Chevron’s 40% operated interest in the Rosebank project, one of the largest undeveloped fields on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Once concluded, the transaction will strengthen Equinor’s UK portfolio, which includes the Mariner development, attractive exploration opportunities and three producing offshore wind farms.

DNV GL Noble Denton marine services has released a new edition of the ST-N001 Marine operations and marine warranty standard, the industry’s most comprehensive standard for the warranty approval of marine operations, covering all different asset and operation types.

Equinor and the Johan Sverdrup partnership submit a letter of award to NKT for fabrication and installation of two high-voltage cables supplying power from shore for the second phase of the Johan Sverdrup development.

Optime Subsea has been selected to deliver a new subsea power control module to ABB. “This is a great recognition of our technological ability to meet industry demands,” says Jan-Fredrik Carlsen, CEO of Optime Subsea.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) today announced updated Oil and Gas Production Safety Systems regulations. BSEE’s revisions reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens while ensuring that operations remain safe and environmentally responsible. The Bureau’s efforts on regulatory reform encourage responsible energy exploration and production on the Outer Continental Shelf to maintain the Nation's position as a global energy leader.

Delmar Systems, Inc. has been awarded the mooring contract to provide engineering design services, project management, mooring equipment, and mooring installation services for the Development Driller III at ExxonMobil’s locations offshore Equatorial Guinea.

Equinor has, together with partners ENI and Petoro, completed the appraisal well on the Cape Vulture discovery from 2017. The well confirms a volume potential of 50-70 million recoverable barrels of oil. The discovery more than doubles the remaining oil reserves to be produced through the Norne field.

Subsea 7 announces the award of a sizeable (1) contract by Fieldwood Energy to Subsea Integration Alliance(2), a global partnership between Subsea 7 and OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company. The award is for the deepwater Katmai field development in the US Gulf of Mexico's Green Canyon 40.

Talos Energy Inc. has announced that the Mexican oil & gas regulator, the National Hydrocarbons Commission ("CNH") has approved the appraisal plan for the Zama discovery.

Total announces a major gas discovery on the Glendronach prospect, located offshore U.K. West of Shetland. The well was drilled to a final depth of 4,312 meters and encountered a gas column of 42 meters of net pay in a high quality Lower Cretaceous reservoir.