Following the announcement that Chrysaor Holdings and Premier Oil have proposed to merge businesses;

In-well fiber optic technology can lead to production improvements in the order of several hundred million dollars per asset.

TechnipFMC announces that Margareth Øvrum, Executive Vice President of Equinor ASA, Development and Production Brazil, has been appointed to its Board of Directors, effective October 1, 2020.

Zero-emission operations can be a reality already today and do not have to be a future option, says Ulstein. Their second hydrogen hybrid design for the offshore wind industry, the ULSTEIN J102 zero emission wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), can operate 75% of the time in zero emission mode. Using readily available technology, the additional cost is limited to less than 5% of the total CAPEX.

Deep Tech engineering firm Akselos and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have won a major grant from the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse), worth 1.2 million Swiss francs to deliver a next-generation structural design and assessment tool for wind turbines.

Logan Industries (Logan), a hydraulic repair, manufacturing and rental company, has been awarded a contract to manufacture a set of unique safety cages to keep offshore technicians safe while inspecting subsea connectors on blowout preventers (BOPs) while on deck.

An up-and-coming name in the subsea survey sector has announced the opening of a new hub in Aberdeen.

C-Kore Systems has finished a series of deployments with an Australian operator to perform detailed measurements of downhole gauges.

A letter of intent has been issued to Odfjell Drilling and the Deepsea Aberdeen rig for drilling of 15 wells for the Breidablikk group, for which the partnership recently submitted the plan for development and operation (PDO). Drilling is scheduled to start in the spring of 2022, and the campaign is estimated to last until the autumn of 2024.

One year after the field came on stream digital solutions are key to maintaining high safety standards and value creation in all parts of the operations at Johan Sverdrup. This has increased earnings by more than NOK two billion.

Damen Shipyards Group has been awarded a contract to design a new Offshore Terminal Tug for Edison Chouest Offshore. Chouest will initially build two ASD Tugs 5016 at its Louisiana shipyard.

Aker Solutions won an order from ConocoPhillips to deliver the subsea production system for the Tommeliten Alpha development offshore Norway. The estimated contract value is about NOK 1.2 billion.

The trade union Lederne has stepped up its strike on the Norwegian continental shelf from Sunday midnight. As a result of the escalation, Equinor has conducted a controlled closure of the fields Gudrun, Gina Krog, Kvitebjørn and Valemon.

While safety concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic prevented OCEANS 2020 Singapore and OCEANS 2020 Gulf Coast from being held in-person, event co-sponsors, the Marine Technology Society and the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, combined the two events into a global virtual conference. Organizers expect 1,000 scientists and engineers from across the globe will gather virtually to attend OCEANS 2020 Singapore – U.S. Gulf Coast on October 5 - 14.

New and flexible fuel cell technology can reduce emissions from shipping by 40 to 100%. Partners from shipping, R&D and oil and gas are now constructing a pilot system that can use different types of fuel.

Mammoet was selected by PTSC Mechanical & Construction Company to complete a four-phase project for the Sao Vang and Dai Nguyet (SVDN) gas and condensate development project, located approximately 300km south-east of Ho Chi Minh City, offshore Vietnam.