Equinor and partners Lundin and Spirit Energy have made a small oil discovery in production license 167 at the Utsira High in the North Sea.

The Liza Destiny FPSO is currently sailing to Guyana, having recently departed from Keppel shipyard in Singapore. This key milestone follows a record turnaround time of just over 20 months for its construction phase by SBM Offshore – including module construction at nearby Dyna-Mac yard.

MAN Energy Solutions has been awarded a contract to support the FEED study of a subsea compression solution for the Chevron-operated Jansz-Io field in Western Australia.

The Gudrun partners have decided to invest in a water injection plant on the Gudrun field to improve reservoir recovery. This will extend the field life by three years compared to the original plan.

Subsea Expo, the world's largest annual subsea exhibition and conference, returns to Aberdeen 11-13 February 2020. The call for speakers has now been issued.

Halfwave, the in-line oil and gas pipeline inspection technology company, has been awarded four significant contract wins for subsea inspection in the first half of 2019, marking a period of notable success for the Norwegian company.

Seadrill Limited has secured a nine well contract with three options, each for two wells, for the West Gemini in West Africa.

McDermott International, Inc., has been awarded a sizeable* contract by Total Oman E&P Development B.V. in partnership with Oman Oil Company S.O.A.C. to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for the Sohar LNG Bunkering Project in Oman. This project is intended to establish Oman as a regional LNG bunkering hub capable of supplying LNG as a fuel to marine vessels.

Schlumberger has been awarded a 20-year subsea equipment and services master contract for subsea development projects in the Gulf of Mexico by Chevron U.S.A. Combining this master contract with a preapproved catalog of standard subsea equipment will enable Chevron to decrease operating costs in its subsea projects.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer 77.8 million acres for a region-wide lease sale scheduled for Aug. 21, 2019. The sale would include all available unleased areas in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

LAGCOE’s Career Connection Job Fair presented by Rigzone will be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans from 10am – 2pm on Friday, October 11, 2019 – during the last day of LAGCOE’s biennial technical exposition and conference.

The project, for which the data is expected to be acquired over a two-month period during the third quarter of 2019, will cover 151 square kilometers in water depths up to 600 meters. The ocean bottom nodes will be deployed by remotely operated vehicles.

Neptune Energy and its joint venture partners BP and JAPEX announced TechnipFMC has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) Target Cost contract for the Seagull development oil project in the UK North Sea.

Wild Well Control, Inc., a Superior Energy Services company, announces a new contract with Fugro for the provision of BOP intervention skids and test units for inclusion in its Subsea Response Kit.

Production from the Trestakk subsea field on Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea started on 16 July. Tied back to the Åsgard A floating production vessel, the field has estimated recoverable resources of 76 million barrels of oil. Field production started on time, below budget and without any serious incidents.

ALE completed the jack-up, skidding and load-out of an offshore platform for the third development stage of the Vladimir Filanovsky oil field, the largest in the Russian section of the Caspian Sea. The field currently produces six million tonnes of crude oil per year.