McDermott International, Inc. announces it will self-perform air and saturation diving on two key projects in the Americas, Europe and Africa region, which builds off McDermott’s vertically integrated model of project execution.

The Oil & Gas Technology Centre has been awarded grant funding of £1.9 million from the Scottish Government’s Decommissioning Challenge Fund to invest in the recently-announced National Decommissioning Centre of Excellence in partnership with the University of Aberdeen.

Cyberhawk Innovations, a global leader in asset management using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has been invited to speak at two leading industry events in Aberdeen, Digital Energy and Topsides UK.

Following a successful ‘Call for Ideas’, the Oil & Gas Technology Centre is backing four subsea ‘plug and play’ projects to help unlock the 3.4 billion barrels of oil and gas in marginal fields, or ‘small pools’ on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).

Well-Safe Solutions has now set up five different P&A clubs to reduce the cost of well plug and abandonment, following significant interest in this innovative approach by operators in the North Sea.

Wellbarrier, a global well barrier illustration software provider, has secured an agreement with exploration and production (E&P) company VNG Norge to create a holistic well integrity value chain solution to safeguard oil and gas wells worldwide.

The United States is expected to account for up to 80 percent of the increase in global oil supply to 2025.[1] This growth is driving the development of new fields far offshore in ever greater water depths. One of the leading oil & gas producers in the region, BP has selected Nexans to supply umbilicals for the second stage development of the Mad Dog offshore field in the Gulf of Mexico.

Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has announced the final investment decision for Vito, a deep-water development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico with a forward-looking, break-even price estimated to be less than $35 per barrel. This decision sets in motion the construction and fabrication of a new, simplified host design and subsea infrastructure.

The operations to install Norway’s largest pipeline to the Johan Sverdrup field started outside Mongstad, north of Bergen, late last week onboard the vessel Saipem Castorone.

LLOG Exploration Offshore, L.L.C. announced that it has been named operator of the Shenandoah discovery in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

Allseas, a global leader in offshore pipeline installation and subsea construction, is to take advantage of the performance and operational benefits available from Sonardyne International’s GyroUSBL acoustic positioning technology, following an order for two systems for its 236 metre long lay vessel, Lorelay.

BOP Risk Mitigation Services, LLC (BRMS) has achieved the seemingly impossible task of developing and delivering the first standardized technology-based Subsea Blowout Preventer (BOP) Rapid Risk Assessment Systems Smart -Risk ™ which incorporates the BRMS Smart -Sim ™ virtual environment.

Fluor Corporation announces that Stork, part of Fluor’s Diversified Services segment, was awarded a three-year contract by Shell UK Limited to provide technical support for a range of Shell’s UK-based ONEgas assets in the Southern North Sea, as well as onshore facilities, offshore installations and vessels. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the first quarter of 2018.

Working for multi-client geoscience data company, TGS, Fugro continues the hunt for hydrocarbon seeps, this time offshore Brazil. Two modern, purpose-built vessels – Fugro Brasilis and Fugro Searcher – have been deployed to acquire high-resolution multibeam echosounder and sub-bottom profiler data in the Campos and Santos Basins.

The last module of the Johan Sverdrup riser platform has been lifted into place. With this, the first of four topsides of the next North Sea giant has been installed.

LR will be leading discussions and debate at this year’s OTC Houston in Texas with a series of technical presentations and papers to help oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond, discover a range of innovations and technology to support US industry as companies tackle the opportunities and challenges of the next 50 years.