A team of researchers funded by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement began testing new oil burning technology at the U.S. Coast Guard’s Joint Maritime Test Facility on Little Sand Island off the coast of Mobile.

Saipem and Siemens have signed a Joint Development Agreement aimed at qualifying and promoting an open standard Subsea Control Systems for Saipem’s Subsea Bus architecture based on Siemens Subsea DigiGrid.

International engineering and operations support services contractor ODE, an integral part of the DORIS Group, has successfully completed a key workscope for Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors. This contract was to provide engineering support for the removal of the topsides and jacket from a Normally Unattended Installation (NUI) as part of the decommissioning project for the Horne & Wren gas fields in the Southern North Sea.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has announced that Lease Sale 247 for oil and gas parcels in the Gulf of Mexico garnered $274,797,434 in high bids for 163 tracts covering 913,542 acres in the Central Planning Area of the Outer Continental Shelf offshore Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. A total of 28 offshore energy companies submitted 189 bids. The sum of all bids received totaled $315,303,884.

Eni has successfully drilled the Amoca-2 well in the shallow waters of Campeche Bay, offshore Mexico, confirming the presence of oil in multiple reservoirs.

Bristow U.S. LLC announces that it has been awarded a contract with Shell Offshore, Inc., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), for medevac and search and rescue (SAR) services in the Gulf of Mexico.

JDR, a leading supplier of subsea cables and umbilicals for the global offshore energy industry, has expanded its presence in West Africa through a partnership agreement with Proserv Instrumentation Nigeria Ltd.

The company will as a subcontractor of Kvaerner take part in upgrading the platform after operator Statoil exercised an option in an agreement awarded in April 2016. The option is for work in the engineering, procurement and construction phase of the project. Aker Solutions' share of the work is valued at about NOK 1 billion and will be booked in the company's first-quarter orders.

Houlder, Wärtsilä and Trelleborg to introduce new small to mid-scale LNG distribution infrastructure at Gastech 2017.

A state of the art dive-support vessel is a marvel of modern technology and design. Seldom has this been more evident than in the Oceanicasub V delivered in February 2017 to her Brazilian owner Oceânica.

SUBSEA intervention specialist firm Enpro Subsea has been named Great Small Company 2017 at the 31st SPE Aberdeen Offshore Achievement Awards (OAA) black-tie event held last night (Thursday 23rd March) at the Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre.

Phase 1 of Johan Sverdrup is under development, with first oil scheduled for late 2019. The partners will now proceed with maturing Phase 2 for the investment decision and submission of the plan for development and operation (PDO) in the second half of 2018. Phase 2 is scheduled to come on stream in 2022.

Damen Shiprepair & Conversion (DSC) has recently completed works in Vlissingen and Brest on two major vessels in the fleet of dredging and marine construction specialist Jan de Nul Group. One of these is the Vole au vent, a 140-metre jack-up vessel built specifically for the installation of the latest generation of offshore wind turbines.

Reflecting its commitment to focus on competitiveness and strict operational and financial costs management, CGG is pleased to announce that it has agreed in principle with its longstanding partner Eidesvik and its Nordic lenders to establish a new ownership set-up for its operated fleet.

European Refinery Margins Will Remain Generally Healthy in 2Q-3Q17

Subsea 7 announces the award of a large(1) contract by BP as part of the deepwater Mad Dog 2 development, located approximately 190 miles south of New Orleans.