Total and Pavilion Energy, through their subsidiaries Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions and Pavilion Gas, have signed Heads of Agreement (HoA) to jointly develop a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) bunker supply chain in the port of Singapore.

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. has announced the launch of its Blockchain Drilling service, the first application of blockchain technology in the offshore drilling industry. This service drives efficiencies and enables oil and gas operators to reduce their total cost of ownership.

McDermott International, Inc. and Baker Hughes, a GE company have announced the award of a contract by POSCO DAEWOO Corp. for phase two of the Shwe gas field development offshore Western Myanmar.

Oilfield technology firm Airborne Oil & Gas has commenced a qualification of a TCP Riser for deepwater and dynamic applications for a major operator in South America in collaboration with Subsea 7, effective 26 June 2018.

Slated for launch in 5-7 March 2019, Oil & Gas Tech Asia 2019 is the only specialized trade show in Ho Chi Minh City to showcase the latest technology in both upstream and downstream of the Oil & Gas Industry.

Subsea 7 has announced the award of a substantial (1) contract by Total E&P Angola for the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of the subsea flowlines and umbilicals for the Zinia Phase 2 project, 150 kilometers offshore Angola in water depths from 800 to 1,000 meters.

Petrotechnics, the developer of Proscient – the hazardous industries’ first software platform for operational excellence – has launched Proscient v4.0, the first off-the-shelf software platform to fast-track companies’ journeys to digital operations.

Aquaterra Energy, a leader in global offshore engineering solutions, has been selected by Equinor to deliver early well construction operations, via its Well Start solution, for the Johan Sverdrup field.

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announces that the Company has signed a contract with Premier Oil, to supply a PowerBuoy™ for a deployment in the Huntington Field, one of Premier Oil’s offshore fields in the Central North Sea.

Nexans has been awarded a major contract to provide complex umbilicals with power, fiber-optic and hydraulic elements for the next stage of the multi-phased Snøhvit development.

Trelleborg’s marine systems operation has supplied a suite of products to H-Energy’s Floating Storage Re-gasification Unit (FSRU) based LNG terminal at JSW Infrastructure’s Jaigarh Port in Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra.

The Coral South field is being developed by Eni in Area Four of the Rovuma Basin, off the coast of Mozambique, the floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit will be Africa’s first floating gas facility. The size, quality and position of the field’s resources are set to transform Mozambique’s economy; the Coral South field contains approximately 450 billion cubic meters (16 TCF) of gas.

ExxonMobil and Eni says that marketing efforts are underway for the Rovuma LNG project, which will produce, liquefy and sell natural gas from the gas fields of the Area 4 block offshore Mozambique.

Global LNG Services (GLS) makes significant progress for the Main Pass Energy Hub™ (MPEH) Deepwater Port project, owned by its US subsidiary MPEH LLC and located 16 miles offshore southeast Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Two LIQUI-MAX™ vessels, capable of producing a total of 24 million tonnes per annum of LNG, will be permanently stationed at MPEH.

Nearly two-thirds (64%) of oil and gas sector leaders expect to increase or sustain spending on gas projects in 2018, as the sector prepares for gas to overtake oil as the world’s primary energy source in the mid-2030s.

Zupt, in association with Oceaneering International, Inc., completed an industry-first “remote metrology” in July 2017. No survey personnel were offshore for the metrology. The "remote metrology" was requested by the operator to ensure they had the flexibility in scheduling. Cost savings were achieved but this was not the primary driver.