Technology development company for the global energy sector, Deep Casing Tools (DCT), together with its regional partner for Asia Pac, EFTECH, has successfully ran 3 more of its Turborunner TM tools with Shell Sarawak, despite challenging conditions heightened by COVID-19.

The trade union Lederne has stepped up its strike on the Norwegian continental shelf from Sunday midnight. As a result of the escalation, Equinor has conducted a controlled closure of the fields Gudrun, Gina Krog, Kvitebjørn and Valemon.

Mammoet was selected by PTSC Mechanical & Construction Company to complete a four-phase project for the Sao Vang and Dai Nguyet (SVDN) gas and condensate development project, located approximately 300km south-east of Ho Chi Minh City, offshore Vietnam.

Hess  announced it has made a final investment decision to proceed with development of the Payara Field offshore Guyana after the development plan received approval from the government of Guyana. Payara is the third oil development on the Stabroek Block; gross production capacity from the three developments is expected to reach approximately 560,000 barrels of oil per day in 2024.

The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration (OER) has released the NOAA OER Deepwater Exploration Mapping Procedures Manual to describe the office’s approach to deepwater ocean exploration acoustic mapping. OER is sharing this manual as a contribution to broader cross-agency efforts to develop standard ocean mapping protocols and to serve as a guide for other interested public and private entities conducting deepwater mapping and exploration.

In-well fiber optic technology can lead to production improvements in the order of several hundred million dollars per asset.

Acoustic Data, a global leader in wireless well technology, has developed a new slickline deployed high expansion retainer for cement and metal alloy plug and abandonment (P&A) applications. In the case of new-generation metal alloy plugs, the HEX-Retainer™ can be integrated with the company’s SonicGauge™ Plug Verification System (PVS) for real-time long-term barrier integrity monitoring purposes.

Baker Hughes has announced the successful launch of Terminator, its vessel-deployed subsea wellhead cutting system. Using a first-of-its-kind mechanical wellhead removal method, the Terminator system has already proven its capabilities by successfully cutting a subsea wellhead from an abandoned exploration well owned by Wintershall DEA in Norway.

Drilling the well on a simulator before its drilling project in the Norwegian North Sea has proved so successful for oil and gas exploration company, Wellesley Petroleum, it is now looking to roll out the initiative across other well projects.

C-Kore Systems has finished a series of deployments with an Australian operator to perform detailed measurements of downhole gauges.

TechnipFMC has been awarded a large⁽¹⁾ contract by Exxon Mobil Corporation (subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (“EEPGL”) for the subsea system for the proposed Payara project.

CGG GeoSoftware has launched WellPath, a new interactive 3D well path planning solution for optimal well planning in unconventional and fractured reservoirs and offshore development platforms, as part of its InsightEarth® 3D visualization and interpretation software suite.

A letter of intent has been issued to Odfjell Drilling and the Deepsea Aberdeen rig for drilling of 15 wells for the Breidablikk group, for which the partnership recently submitted the plan for development and operation (PDO). Drilling is scheduled to start in the spring of 2022, and the campaign is estimated to last until the autumn of 2024.

Aker Solutions won an order from ConocoPhillips to deliver the subsea production system for the Tommeliten Alpha development offshore Norway. The estimated contract value is about NOK 1.2 billion.

SBM Offshore announces that Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), an affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corporation, has confirmed the award of contracts for the next phase of the Payara development project located in the Stabroek block in Guyana.

Nexans has signed a contract with Subsea 7 to design and manufacture 46 km of umbilicals for the Sangomar field, offshore Senegal.