McDermott International, Inc. announced a sizeable* contract award by PEMEX Exploración y Producción for subsea pipeline flowline installation in support of its Ayatsil field, located 50 miles northwest of Ciudad del Carmen in the Bay of Campeche offshore Mexico.

VT Halter Marine, Inc. (VT Halter Marine), a subsidiary of Vision Technologies Systems, Inc. (VT Systems) has announced that Ronald Baczkowski has been appointed as the President and CEO for VT Halter Marine with immediate effect.

Cyberhawk, a world leader in drone inspection and visual asset management software, has announced its most successful year as the company celebrates a decade in business.

Wison Offshore & Marine and Western LNG LLC announces that they have entered into a Technical Service Agreement (“TSA”) in relation to a new floating liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) project that Western is developing in British Columbia, Canada.

Trelleborg’s offshore facility based in Skelmersdale, UK, broke ground on its new 630m² / 2,066ft² testing facility that will house two state-of-the-art hyperbaric test chambers. The new equipment will be able to simulate extreme deepwater pressure conditions, enabling accurate testing of subsea and drilling equipment.

TWMA, a provider of specialized drilling waste management services, has secured a three-year contract worth £5 million with Apache North Sea, Limited for the provision of drill cuttings containment and handling services on the operator’s Beryl assets.

Woods Hole Group, Inc. announces its new location at 107 Waterhouse Road, Bourne MA 02523. The move also is home the company previously known as Horizon Marine, Inc., which merged with Woods Hole Group in January.

GulfSlope Energy, Inc. announces that it has the Rowan Ralph Coffman jack-up rig under tow in the Gulf of Mexico to the Vermilion Area, South Addition Block 378. The Company plans to commence drilling operations at the Canoe Prospect by August 1, pending final rig inspection and drilling approval from the Bureau of Ocean Management (“BOEM”).

Crowley Maritime Corp.’s new container/roll on-roll off “ConRo” ship El Coquí successfully delivered its first cargo from Jacksonville, Fla., to the company’s modernized Isla Grande Terminal in San Juan yesterday – a historic milestone in the company’s transformation of its U.S. mainland-Puerto Rico logistics services.

Total has started up production of Kaombo, currently the biggest deep offshore development in Angola, located on Block 32, 260 kilometers off the coast of Luanda.

Kvaerner has delivered yet another steel substructure for the largest industry project of our time, the Johan Sverdrup field. This is the third of the three jackets Kvaerner delivers for phase 1 of the project. All platform substructures are delivered at the appointed time. During the project, Kvaerner has improved the process for this kind of deliveries, thus new substructures can now be delivered at a cost even lower than in 2005.

The Jumbo Javelin and her team have successfully installed a 100t Calcium Nitrate Injection Vessel (CNIV) module on the ERHA FPSO offshore Nigeria for Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN).

Aberdeen-based inspection technology and service provider for the oil and gas industry, Innospection, Shell Brazil and SENAI CIMATEC technology institute in Salvador, Brazil, have recently signed a partnership agreement to develop a robot-based technology for in-service inspection of cargo oil tanks of FPSOs.

The Ichthys LNG Project reached a major milestone on July 27 with the opening of the first offshore production well, marking the start of 40 years of operations of this gas and condensate field.

On July 24, Damen Shipyards Group signed a contract with Cyprus-based VTS Vasiliko Terminal Services, the supplier of marine services to the Port of Vasiliko and the VTTV Oil Terminal Jetty, for a Damen ASD Tug 2310.

Investors should feel confident about BP’s, Eni’s and Shell’s increased wave of new project approvals during the recent downturn. A Rystad Energy review of the performance of their recent projects against those of other operators shows that the three European oil giants have outperformed their peers.