Energy services provider, Expro Group Holdings N.V. has announced a five-year Well Intervention and Integrity contract with TotalEnergies EP Uganda for the multi-well Tilenga project.

On May 18, 2023, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) announced the preliminary results of the UK’s 1st Carbon Storage Licensing Round with the offer of awards for 20 carbon storage licenses to 12 companies (Figure 1).

Machine learning is a rapidly growing field in the oil and gas industry. It can be used to analyze seismic data, well logs, and other geologic data to identify potential oil and gas reservoirs.

During a capacity test at Johan Sverdrup, the field reached a record-high production level of 755,000 barrels of oil per day.

Energy industry leaders are to set out how the sector can overcome challenges posed by the implementation of carbon capture storage (CCS) and the use of hydrogen at SPE Offshore Europe 2023 (OE23).

TechnipFMC has been awarded a significant⁽¹⁾ integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation (iEPCI™) contract by Shell plc for its Dover development in the Gulf of Mexico.

Aquaterra Energy, a leader in global offshore engineering solutions, has secured a multi-million subsea riser contract through a competitive tender with bp for a subsea well development project located in Trinidad and Tobago. Aquaterra Energy will provide a complete end-to-end managed service as a fully independent riser system and connector OEM.

Neptune Energy has announced the award of a +$100 million contract to Tenaris to provide equipment and services to support drilling activities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

TotalEnergies and its co-venturers Petrobras, QatarEnergy and PETRONAS Petróleo Brasil Ltda (PPBL) have signed a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for the Agua Marinha block, which was awarded in the Open Acreage under Production Sharing Regime – 1st Cycle held by Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) in December 2022.

Since Westwood’s last Asia Pacific (APAC) offshore drilling rig insight, the market – as predicted – has reached utilization levels not seen since the oil price crash of 2014 and dayrates have gone up across most rig types.

Independent integrated solutions provider IKM Testing UK has secured a second contract with Bumi Armada to deliver a drone-based methane emissions survey on the Kraken Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel in the North Sea.

Energy services provider Expro, has secured a new contract with Harbour Energy for a well abandonment campaign as part of the decommissioning project for the Balmoral area, in the UK Continental Shelf.

EGS Australia has recently completed a 7-month high resolution geophysical, UXO, and geotechnical survey campaign offshore Papua New Guinea for the Papua LNG which intends to install a pipeline from Orokolo Bay to Caution Bay, near Port Moresby.

BiSN, a global provider of innovative Wel-lok™ sealing solutions, has achieved a significant milestone by reaching 400 commercial deployments of its ground-breaking Wel-lok technology.

Trendsetter Engineering Inc. has been awarded a contract to provide Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (“ExxonMobil Guyana”) with an order of TC11 Connection Systems. ExxonMobil Guyana plans to use Trendsetter’s innovative clamp connectors on their Gas-to-Energy project in Guyana.

Subsea7 S.A. has confirmed the award of a major¹ contract by Turkish Petroleum for the second phase of the Sakarya field development offshore Türkiye in the Black Sea.