To improve the efficiency and safety of deep-water oil and gas activities, Petrobras and Curtiss-Wright have entered into a technological cooperation agreement to design a fully electric, highly reliable subsea pumping system with far less dependency on the production platform.

Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (Shearwater) ramps up its multi-client activity and announces the start of the Pelotas Basin 3D project. This is the fifth multi-client 3D acquisition project so far.

QatarEnergy announces that the consortium partners in the Sepia joint venture have taken the final investment decision (FID) for the second development phase of the Sépia field, located in the prolific pre-salt Santos Basin, offshore Brazil.

ABL has been awarded a contract by China Offshore Oil Engineering Company (COOEC) to provide marine warranty survey (MWS) services for the build-out of the CRPO 122 project at the Safaniya oil field in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, has announced a significant order from Petrobras for workover and plug and abandonment (P&A) services in pre-salt and post-salt fields offshore Brazil.

Transocean Ltd. (Transocean) has announced contract fixtures for three of its harsh environment semisubmersibles. Together, the fixtures represent approximately $161 million in firm contract backlog.

Subsea 7 S.A. announces the award of a super-major¹ contract by Petrobras, after winning a competitive tender, for the development of the Búzios 9 field located approximately 180 kilometers off the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at 2,000 meters water depth in the pre-salt Santos basin.

Seatrium Limited, a global provider of engineering solutions to the offshore, marine, and energy industries, has won an international tender from Brazil’s National Oil Company, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), acting as operator of Atapu¹ and Sepia² consortiums, for the newbuild supply of Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSO) platforms P-84 and P-85.

The Audacia team, with first-class support from Allseas’ Australian fleet, has successfully completed the 262-kilometer Barossa gas export pipeline in the southern Timor Sea.

Equinor is selling 19.5% interests in production licenses PL 048E, which is the Eirin field, and PL 1201 to PGNiG Upstream Norway AS (PGNiG). With this, the ownership between Equinor and PGNiG in these licenses will be balanced with the Gina Krog field.

India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), supported by ABL as tow master and marine warranty provider, has moved a record-high 45 drilling rigs to new locations ahead of the Indian monsoon season.

Subsea7 has been awarded a sizeable¹ contract by Serica Energy, for the Belinda field development south-east of the Triton FPSO. The Belinda field is operated by Serica Energy and located approximately 190 kilometers east of Aberdeen in the UK Central North Sea, with a water depth of 95 meters.

Norwegian energy producer Equinor has chosen Emerson to provide advanced well completion monitoring systems for its Rosebank oil and gas field development offshore in the United Kingdom.

DOF announces, as part of an ongoing tender process, a Major Contract Award by Petrobras for the pipelay support vessel (PLSV) Skandi Vitória with a 3-year firm plus option contract commencing in 2025.

Salunda, a global leader in digitized solutions for safety critical industries, has secured a multi-year contract to install its ‘Crew Hawk’ Red Zone monitoring solution on a jack-up rig in the Middle East.

Global Survival Technology solutions provider Survitec has launched a pioneering new energy containment safety device designed to reduce the risks associated with catastrophic value actuator failures.