Sparrows Group (Sparrows), the engineering and maintenance services specialist for the international energy and industrial sectors, has secured an additional contract with India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to refurbish eight offshore pedestal cranes.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has updated its Compendium of GHG Emissions Methodologies for the Natural Gas and Oil Industry, the foundational reference used by companies and governments across the world as methodologies for reporting GHG emissions from natural gas and oil operations, including for API’s climate-related reporting template released earlier this year.

On behalf of the Wisting license partners, Equinor has signed a contract with Aker Solutions for front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a floating production and storage vessel (FPSO) for the Wisting field.

A breakthrough in leak risk detection at oil pipe flanges comes from research by the University of Houston using a Saab Seaeye Falcon robot as a development platform.

Intelligent Wellhead Systems Inc. (IWS), a leading supplier of digital technologies that improve oil and gas well completion operations, has released its tenth-generation digital completion technology, inVision X.

LAGCOE has announced the return to Lafayette, Louisiana for the 2022 technical conference and exposition.

The ‘methane fee’, a part of the amended text of the Build Back Better Act released by the House Rules Committee in the US, could cost the petroleum and natural gas industry $1.3 billion in 2025 under a status quo scenario, a Rystad Energy analysis shows.

Rockwash Geodata Ltd, an industry leading geological laboratory and services company, has announced a collaboration agreement with analytics and machine learning company Earth Science Analytics (ESA).

The Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), the global platform of the leading gas producing nations, has urged the international community gathered in Glasgow, UK, for UNFCCC COP26 to look for energy options that achieve the right balance between the post-COVID-19 economic and social requirements and climate actions, particularly for the most vulnerable regions of the world.

Aquaterra Energy, a leader in global offshore energy engineering solutions, has been awarded a $4.4 million (USD) contract with BW Energy to provide procurement, engineering, manufacture, installation, and commissioning support of multiple conductor tensioning units for the repurposing of the Hibiscus Alpha jack-up rig to an offshore installation (OI), located offshore Gabon, West Africa.

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., an international offshore energy services company headquartered in Houston, Texas, has joined Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. in a global partnership to provide integrated hydraulic intervention services for subsea wells and flowlines.

Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has safely and successfully re-started production at the Mars and Ursa platforms in the US Gulf of Mexico and began exporting oil and gas through the West Delta-143 (WD-143) “A” facility.

Technology has been very important for developing the oil and gas industry in Norway.

DeepOcean has been awarded a frame agreement contract by an undisclosed US-based operator for delivery of engineering, project management and vessel support to execute a wide range of subsea activities throughout 2022.

Trendsetter Engineering, Inc., a leading provider of subsea intervention systems and services, announces that it has rounded out its subsea intervention capabilities with the delivery of its industry leading 15,000psi Pressure Control Head (PCH) and Lubricator Assembly.

A robotic boat has been used for the first time to survey fish populations around oil platforms in the North Sea.