Rever Offshore, a subsea project delivery and execution provider to the offshore energy industry, has announced the three-year extension to the charter of its DSV Rever Topaz.

Global integrated mechanical and electrical services company EnerMech, has announced the appointment of industry heavyweight Christian Brown as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Damen Oskarshamnsvarvet has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Kustbevakningen, the Swedish Coastguard (KBV), for a modernization and modification project on the vessel KBV 181. The vessel was built as a patrol boat, but will after modification serve as a combination vessel, for both patrol and oil recovery. It is used also by Umeå Marine Forskningscenter (UMF) for research and environmental monitoring in the Gulf of Bothnia.

Climate change is real. And nowhere is its impact being felt, observed, and measured more than on our oceans. Rising sea levels, polar ice melt, and devastating storms are just some of the issues facing mariners and O&G workers the world over. So, policies, procedures, and technologies are responding to these changes for the safety and security of people and assets – offshore and in coastal regions.

Trelleborg’s applied technologies operation has been awarded a contract by Ørsted to provide NjordGuard, an integrated cable protection system, for the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Trelleborg will provide 235 NjordGuard cable protection systems and bellmouths, which will protect all inter array and export cables on the projects.

UK plug, abandonment and casing recovery specialist Ardyne has enhanced its relationship with Equinor through a frame agreement for fishing services covering all of the operator’s assets on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

ABB’s pioneering subsea power distribution and conversion technology system is commercially viable, bringing groundbreaking potential for cleaner, safer and more sustainable offshore oil and gas production, following the completion of a 3,000-hour shallow water test.

Proman Stena Bulk Ltd has this week finalized an agreement with Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) in China to build two state of the art IMOIIMeMAX methanol-ready 49,900 DWT vessels, with the first vessel due for delivery at the beginning of 2022. This represents the first deal signed by the newly-created joint venture between Swedish Stena Bulk and the Swiss-based Proman Shipping.

International energy consultancy Xodus Group is set to almost double its global environment division by the end of 2019, in line with its goals to deliver a responsible energy future.

Bureau Veritas Solutions – Marine & Offshore (BV Solutions), the consultancy and outsourcing brand of Bureau Veritas, a world leader in testing, inspection and certification services, has been awarded a three (3) year Enterprise Frame Agreement with Shell Tunisia Upstream Ltd (Shell) to provide asset integrity management support services.

Millions of pounds spent in wellhead intervention could be a thing of the past, extreme tests on Aberdeen-developed technology reveal.

Fugro will present its latest developments in site investigation tools and services to support the development of offshore wind farms (OWFs) at the WindEurope Offshore conference and exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 26 to 28 November.

The N-Sea-BODAC joint venture has announced significant investment in the further development of its specialist UXO provision.

Local wave and weather conditions are critical factors when undertaking offshore operations, and time is money when operators are waiting on weather. Real-time wave measurements can dispel some of the guesswork historically associated with the planning and execution of marine operations such as pipe laying, subsea installations, heavy lifting operations, work-overs, or inspections.

Global merger and acquisitions (M&A) and raising activity in the oil and gas upstream sector totaled US$63.4bn in Q3 2019, representing a 50% decrease from the US$126.8bn in M&A and capital raising deals announced in Q3 2019. By volume, the number of deals decreased by 30% from 338 in Q2 to 269 in Q3, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.