Aberdeen-based, subsea well intervention technology specialist, Interventek has been awarded a repeat order from Trendsetter Engineering in Houston, to supply additional 6-3/8”, 15,000psi, open-water Revolution shear-and-seal valves.

FutureOn, the global software company specialising in the energy sector, has designed a tool for the next-generation energy engineer that will impact project economics across the full lifecycle.

Aker Solutions has delivered yet another steel substructure for the largest industry project ever in Norway, the Johan Sverdrup field.

Equinor (operator) and ExxonMobil, Petrogal Brasil and Pré-sal Petróleo SA (PPSA) have decided to develop phase one of the Bacalhau field in the Brazilian pre-salt Santos area. The investment is approximately 8 billion USD.

Equinor and partners Vår Energi and Aker BP have struck oil in production license 554. Recoverable resources are estimated at between 1.3 and 3.6 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent, corresponding to 8-23 million barrels of oil equivalent.

ExxonMobil says it has made a discovery at Longtail-3 in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana.

Gastech, the world’s largest exhibition and conference supporting the gas, LNG, hydrogen, and energy industry, will take place in Dubai, at the Dubai World Trade Center, from September 21-23, 2021.

The release of the IEA’s Roadmap to Net Zero by 2050 report on May 20, is a potential bombshell for the industry as it concludes that ‘Beyond projects already committed as of 2021, there are no new oil and gas fields approved for development in our pathway.’ The industry now faces some stark choices on the path to take.

Aker Solutions has been awarded a large [1] framework agreement from Petrobras to provide subsea lifecycle services for Petrobras-operated oil and gas fields offshore Brazil. The agreement has a fixed period of three years and includes an option to extend the contract for two additional years.

Decom North Sea (DNS) has collaborated with academics at Edinburgh Business School Heriot-Watt University to publish a report investigating the prevalence of reuse and a circular economy within decommissioning and recovery of offshore platforms based on the UKCS.

In a move to take lead in delivering advances in digital rig scheduling, energy software solutions provider, AGR Software, is to acquire the Deloitte Digital portfolio application, ‘RIG’.

Talos Energy Inc. has provided an update regarding successful drilling operations on the Company's Tornado 3 sidetrack well ("Tornado Attic" well), which successfully discovered pay in-line with pre-drill expectations. Talos holds a 65.0% working interest in the Tornado field and is the operator with Kosmos Energy also holding a 35% working interest.

This is the 50^th anniversary of the Ekofisk field starting up, making Norway an oil-producing nation. And what an adventure it's been.

C-Kore Systems recently completed another successful campaign with VAYCO Oil tools and their Nigerian partner Cranium Engineering for a major oil operator offshore Nigeria.

The Dales Voe decommissioning facility in Shetland, operated by Veolia and Peterson, is one step closer to becoming a center of innovation for recycling offshore structures from the North Sea, following the successful collapse of the Ninian North platform using explosives for the first time.



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