McDermott International, Inc. has been awarded a sizeable* contract by BHP Billiton Petróleo Operaciones de México, S. De R.L. De C.V. (BHP) to provide pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) services for a floating production unit (FPU) that will be installed in a water depth of approximately 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) at the Trion field, located approximately 19 miles (30 kilometers) south of the U.S./Mexico border and approximately 112 miles (180 kilometers) from the Mexican coastline. 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announces that region-wide Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 254 generated $93,083,453 in high bids for 71 tracts covering 397,285 acres in Federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A total of 22 companies participated in the lease sale, submitting $108,587,185 in total bids.

Independent global completions service company Tendeka has secured a four-year contract to supply its zonal isolation technologies across a leading operator’s Malaysian assets.

iXblue, a major provider of advanced navigation, subsea positioning and imagery solutions dedicated to the Offshore market, announces the launch of its new SeapiX-C solid-state 3D multibeam sonar. Providing increased efficiency and safety, this new sonar offers real-time georeferenced static bathymetry capabilities to marine works operators for instant monitoring and decision-making.

Aker Solutions has entered a master agreement to provide umbilicals for Chevron-operated oil and gas fields in the US Gulf of Mexico. The company also secured the first work order under the new master agreement, to provide 24 kilometers (15 miles) of umbilicals for Chevron’s Anchor project.

Neptune Energy  announces that an encouraging hydrocarbon discovery has been made at the Isabella exploration well in the UK Central North Sea.

Unity, Europe’s largest provider of well integrity technology, services and engineering solutions, has been awarded a three-year contract by Spirit Energy to maintain wellhead equipment across twelve platforms in the East Irish Sea, Southern North Sea and the Dutch sector of the North Sea.

Phoenix International Holdings Inc., (Phoenix) announces the recent execution of a mudline tree recompletion for Walter Oil & Gas in the Gulf of Mexico. Utilizing our Atmospheric Diving System (ADS), the project took place over 15 days, in two phases, operating at a water depth of 200 fsw.

BW Offshore has signed a five-year contract for the lease and operation of the BW Pioneer on the Cascade and Chinook fields on behalf of MP Gulf of Mexico, LLC (MP GOM) with a five-year option to extend. The firm period commences in direct continuation of the current contract and lasts until March 2025.

MOL Group’s wholly owned subsidiary MOL Norge AS and its joint venture partners have discovered oil and gas in an offshore field located about 200km west of Stavanger in the Norwegian part of the North Sea.

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Trelleborg’s offshore operation has unveiled its new digitized monitoring technology for pipeline protection ancillaries.

Tracerco, part of Johnson Matthey Plc, has recently been awarded a deep-water subsea inspection project to assess the integrity of a new pipelay in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM).

Leading deepwater mooring rope manufacturer, Lankhorst Offshore, has been awarded a contract by SBM Offshore to supply the deepwater mooring lines for the Liza Unity Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) for ExxonMobil’s Liza oil field offshore Guyana, South America.

Stress Engineering Services, Inc., (SES), a global leader in consulting engineering services and solutions, has developed a digital flex joint angle measurement system for monitoring real-time drilling operations.

TechnipFMC has been awarded a significant ⁽¹⁾ integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (iEPCI™) contract from BP Angola for the Platina field development, located offshore Angola in Block 18 at water depths ranging from 1,200 to 1,500 meters.