Danos has been awarded a multi-year contract for production operations with a major oil and gas producer in the Gulf of Mexico.

Following the release of BP’s Q4 2020 financial results, Daniel Rogers, Senior Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view:

Due to the rapid expansion of Mammoet’s business in Taiwan with joint venture partner Giant Heavy Machinery Services Corp and its recent cooperation with Taiwan International Ports Corporation, Mammoet has announced that it will open a new office in Taichung, Taiwan.

C-Innovation, LLC (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has announced a one-year contract extension with BP for Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI) in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The Island Venture and team are currently mobilized and in the field working on one of BP’s assets.

Strohm, a world leading manufacturer of Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP), has secured a contract to deliver two gas lift jumpers for an offshore project Deepwater Sabah, Malaysia.   

WaveSignalTM, launched this week by Rutter Inc., is the latest addition to the sigma S6 line of advanced radar processing systems.

Energy storage pioneer Corvus Energy is set to start development and production of sustainable, large scale maritime-certified hydrogen fuel cell systems. Production will be located in Bergen, Norway with Toyota onboard as key partner and supplier of mass-produced fuel cell technology.

2020 will be remembered as one of the most challenging years in the history of the oil and gas sector.

Twin Brothers Marine (TB), a leader in heavy steel fabrication for the oil & gas, infrastructure and renewables industries, has received the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) conditional certification for its Louisa, La. facility.   

Kongsberg Digital (KDI) and The Nautical Institute are pleased to announce an approved remote simulation solution for Dynamic Positioning (DP) Induction Courses. This has been developed by KDI to support training centers worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, and has now been approved by The Nautical Institute.

Equinor experienced several serious incidents throughout the year, but also achieved a reduction in the number of serious incidents and personal injuries in 2020 compared to the previous year. The results support a good trend in safety performance during the last decade, but also demonstrate the need to further improve our safety work.

The National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium announces Round One awards in the Offshore Wind Solicitation 1.0 for offshore wind technology research and development projects. Today’s announcement advances the Consortium’s long-term strategy for identifying innovative technology to further drive down costs of offshore wind development in the United States, making it even more competitive with other generation resources.

Expert support from Marine-i is helping 3D printing specialist J-Supplied to develop large scale technology to produce bespoke parts for the floating offshore wind industry, such as custom-designed turbine blades.

While SeaBird will remain dedicated to marine acquisition of 2D/3D seismic data and OBN (ocean bottom node) services to the oil and gas industry, the company aims to spin off and separately list its marine minerals business Green Minerals AS.

Teledyne Marine has contracted with SITECH Gulf to serve as their exclusive distributor in the U.A.E., Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, and official distributor in select North African countries to represent their full line of marine products for civil engineering, offshore energy, and oceanographic applications.

Equinor and bp have completed their previously announced transaction, whereby Equinor has sold a 50% interest in both the Empire Wind and Beacon Wind assets on the US east coast for a total cash consideration of around USD 1.1 bn excluding customary purchase price adjustments.