Eni has started gas production from the Jangkrik Development Project, in deep water offshore Indonesia, ahead of schedule. The Project comprises the gas fields Jangkrik and Jangkrik North East, located in the Muara Bakau block, Kutei basin, in the deep water of Makassar Strait.

Continuing with its strong tradition of developing innovative mooring solutions, Delmar Systems unveiled the new RAR Plus™ and the MOOR‐Max™ Releasable Mooring System at the 2017 Offshore Technology Conference.

Bibby Offshore, a leading subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, has appointed Dorothy Shepherd as general manager, renewables.

Production optimization specialist Enpro Subsea has revealed details of how its unique subsea architecture was used for the first time by an operator in the Gulf of Mexico and was a contributing factor to the organization achieving first oil production in under 12 months – a record time for the client.

Semco Maritime to participate in the preparation (hook-up) of Maersk Oil UK’s new gas field in the UK sector of the North Sea when the production units arrive from Singapore in the summer of 2018. The largest order ever for Semco Maritime’s Aberdeen office.

Vestdavit has completed its largest ever single-point A-frame davit for over the side boat handling, rising to the continuing challenge set by customers to be able to launch and retrieve ever larger workboats from their ships.

U.S. Inventory Deficits to Last Year Likely to Widen

InterMoor Ltd, a leading provider of mooring services, foundation solutions, and offshore installations in subsea services group Acteon, has added rigless well abandonment capabilities to its UK-based services.

Energy services company Proserv has recently been awarded three contracts worth a combined value of more than $2.5million (approx. 21.5m Norwegian Krone) for decommissioning work in the Norwegian North Sea.

ELA Container Offshore GmbH delivered an Offshore Office Container to Heerema Marine Contractors. The container was placed on board their Semi-Submersible Crane Vessel (SSCV) Thialf and was used as a control room to operate their anchor winches.

If the industry is out of the emergency room in 2017, it is not yet out of hospital. Even if oil prices recover further, explorers will need to focus on finding low cost oil and gas profitable to develop at $40 per barrel or less.

Harvey Gulf International Marine has announced the delivery of the first of two, large capacity Multi Purpose Support Vessels (MPSV) scheduled for 2017 deliveries, significantly enhancing the domestic Jones Act Fleet.

STATS Group has completed its second subsea pipeline repair and isolation project which was the result of vessel anchor damage.

Leading global deck machinery specialist, ACE Winches has successfully mobilized a 6 point mooring system to anchor the Iron Lady Barge being used on the Brent decommissioning project.

Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI) announces the introduction of its DEEPFRAC™ deepwater multistage fracturing service, which can save operators hundreds of millions of dollars in offshore developments through unprecedented efficiency gains across the completion phase.

M² Subsea has joined forces with Frontera Offshore to deliver remedial pipeline work for Permaducto, a subsidiary of Grupo Protexa, in the Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) oilfield in the Bay of Campeche, 65 miles north east of Cuidad del Carmen, Mexico. This contract also marks the first award for M² Subsea in the Gulf of Mexico region.