Equinor and OMV have agreed on transferring the operatorship for the Wisting license and development phase in the Barents Sea as of 1 December.

Rever Offshore, a subsea project delivery and execution provider to the offshore energy industry, has announced the three-year extension to the charter of its DSV Rever Topaz.

Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (“Shearwater”) has been awarded the largest-ever 4D seismic campaign in the Asia Pacific region covering up to six fields operated by Woodside in Australia.

Bourbon Marine & Logistics announces that it has been awarded by Total E&P Namibia an integrated logistics contract to support a deep offshore exploration campaign in South Namibia in 2020.

Kosmos Energy has completed drilling the Resolution exploration well (Kosmos 50%, BP 50%) in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

ABB’s pioneering subsea power distribution and conversion technology system is commercially viable, bringing groundbreaking potential for cleaner, safer and more sustainable offshore oil and gas production, following the completion of a 3,000-hour shallow water test.

Seabed Geosolutions has received a letter of intent for another 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in an active area of the US Gulf of Mexico for a major energy company.

International oilfield services company Expro has secured a contract extension to supply well test and subsea services for INPEX-operated, Ichthys LNG.

Subsea 7 S.A. has confirmed a substantial⁽¹⁾ contract award by Woodside for the execution of phase 2 of the Julimar-Brunello Project. This contract was awarded to Subsea 7 earlier this year, subject to the final investment decision of the Julimar-Brunello joint venture participants (Woodside and KUFPEC), which has now occurred.

Millions of pounds spent in wellhead intervention could be a thing of the past, extreme tests on Aberdeen-developed technology reveal.

CGG announced a program to deliver the largest OBN multi-client survey ever conducted in the UK Central North Sea (CNS). Planned to start in early 2020, the survey has already received significant industry interest and is being prefunded in part by BP. First results are targeted for Q1 2021.

The contract is a continuation of IKM Ocean Design’s long- term involvement in the Johan Sverdrup project, where the company has been involved in all project stages for both Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the development since 2013.

Aker Solutions has delivered maintenance and modifications work for Vår Energi’s Jotun, Balder and Ringhorne assets for 19 years. 

Saipem has been awarded a subsea contract by ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (“EEPGL”) for the proposed Payara development project located in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana at a water depth of around 2000 meters. The contract scope includes Subsea Structures, Risers and Flowlines.

Production optimization specialist, Enpro Subsea, has recently completed another two successful subsea hydraulic intervention campaigns for two operators in West Africa. Operations were conducted from a single Multi Services Support Vessel, which was mobilized out of Takoradi in Ghana.

Consortium announces oil and gas production start at P-68 FPSO located at BM-S-11-A concession in Berbigão, Sururu, and West Atapu; unit can process up to 150,000 barrels per day.