McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE:MDR) announces a contract award from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for subsea umbilical and flowline installation in support of a tieback to Anadarko-operated Lucius field located 275 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

Jumbo has been awarded a contract for Shell deep-water Vito development in the Gulf of Mexico. The Vito development is located in the Mississippi Canyon, approximately 150 miles south of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, in water depth of more than 4,000 feet.

Sean Thomas, P.E., General Manager, Universal Subsea Inc. presented the company’s business plan and revolutionary, patent-pending Wellhead Defender subsea isolation cap at the Rice Alliance Startup Roundup at OTC on April 30. The 2018 OTC is being held at the NRG Park from April 30 to May 3 and is the offshore industry’s premier global event.

The design requirements of concrete coated pipelines are based on simple and general criteria created more than twenty years ago.

Probe, a leading supplier of logging and reservoir monitoring technology to the global oil and gas and geothermal industries, announces the RAS™ pulsed-neutron tool, a three-detector system that uses sigma and carbon-oxygen (C/O) techniques to measure reservoir fluid saturation of oil, water and gas.

The Alaska LNG Project has reached a historic milestone as BP Alaska and Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) announced the parties have agreed to key terms of a Gas Sales Agreement, including price and volume. The terms are captured in a Gas Sales Precedent Agreement signed May 4, 2018.

The current tailwind in the oil market is likely to propel 100 new offshore projects to be sanctioned in 2018, according to Rystad Energy.

A pioneering study of the Equatorial West African margin identifies new targets for exploration controlled by structure of the underlying basement.

Statoil is awarding Subsea 7 Norway AS a five-year contract for IMR services to be carried out by the Seven Viking vessel for subsea operations on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).

Close to half (46%) of senior oil and gas professionals believe that there has been underinvestment in inspection and maintenance of infrastructure and equipment in recent years, according to a new report published by DNV GL. However, only a quarter (28%) said that they expect to increase spending on safety in 2018.

TWMA, provider of specialised drilling waste management services, is set to deliver drill cuttings management services to New Age Cameroon Offshore Petroleum (New Age) in a two well, offshore drilling project.

China Merchants Heavy Industry (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd (CMHI) and DNV GL signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) for the classification of two multi-activity jack-up units at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston on Tuesday, May 1.

Bibby Offshore, a leading subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, has secured a fixed term framework agreement with leading independent oil and gas operator, Spirit Energy.

At Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), W&T Offshore Inc. and Baker Hughes, a GE company announced a strategic partnership related to W&T's joint exploration and development program, which includes 14 drilling projects, most of which are operated by W&T in the Gulf of Mexico.

In 2017 Jumbo was awarded a contract by Geocean for the Moheshkhali Project.

Siccar Point Energy has started drilling a final appraisal well on the Cambo field, north-west of Shetland, with results expected this summer.