Osbit Ltd, an innovative offshore technology company, has completed a major upgrade to DeepOcean’s subsea pipeline plough, to provide the AMP1500 with class-leading capabilities.

VT Halter Marine, Inc., a company of Vision Technologies Systems, Inc., announces a new contract to build an Articulated Tug Barge (ATB) tug with an option for a second vessel for Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc.

Late last week the last pipe of what is now Norway’s longest and largest oil pipeline was installed right next to the riser platform at the Johan Sverdrup field. The 36-inch pipeline extends 283 km from the Mongstad oil terminal outside Bergen to the giant field in the North Sea.

Tiger Offshore Rentals (“Tiger”), a leading global provider of transportation and storage equipment to the offshore oil and gas industry, has acquired Rigzone Mechanical Equipment LLC (“Rigzone”), including its manufacturing facility and its fleet of DNV certified offshore cargo carrying units (CCUs) in the United Arab Emirates.

Chet Morrison Contractors (Morrison), a leading energy service company for the oil, gas and renewables industries, has been awarded a 2017 American Equity Underwriters, Inc. (AEU) Safety Award for the company’s strong commitment to safety in the workplace.

N-Sea Offshore Limited is carrying out work on a £30 million contract to provide subsea inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) services for an oil and gas development and production company.

Natural gas projects will receive a significant investment boost over the coming years. This will enable gas to overtake oil as the world’s primary energy source in 2026, and account for a quarter of the world’s energy by mid-century.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has delivered the ENSHU MARU (Kawasaki hull no. 1720), a 164,700 m³ capacity liquefied natural gas (LNG) transport vessel for use by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) and Tokyo Century Corporation.

The offshore wind industry’s largest floatel has cut an operational bottleneck with its new boat landing facility that is capable of transferring up to 150 turbine technicians into the field each day.

Danos announces the hiring of Rafe Blades as sales manager. Based out of the company’s Gray, Louisiana headquarters, Blades is responsible for overseeing sales strategies to maintain and expand the company’s customer base, as well as management of the sales team. Blades joins Danos with a ten year track record of sales experience.

Bollinger Shipyards, LLC, announces the promotion of Matthew Kuehne to General Manager of Bollinger Quick Repair.

Point Resources has executed the remaining part of the option for the maintenance and modifications contract with Aker Solutions.

Maritime engineering company Intermarine UK has landed a contract from Cammell Laird shipyard on Merseyside to supply the £160million RRS Sir David Attenborough polar ship.

CGG S.A. (“CGG”) announces that the Board of Directors has unanimously approved the voluntary delisting of its American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) from the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and its voluntary deregistration with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). CGG believes that the costs associated with continuing the listing and registration of its ADSs exceed the benefits received by CGG, as the primary market for CGG shares is Euronext Paris.

Hess Corporation has awarded Wood a three-year non-exclusive agreement for the provision of operations, maintenance and other support services in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Phoenix Submarine Rescue Team deployed on board the M/V HOS DOMINATOR 9-19 July and completed eight days of submarine rescue operations off the coast of Catalina Island, which culminated in a satisfactory Operational Readiness Evaluation (ORE) by Undersea Rescue Command’s (URC) parent command (Submarine Squadron ELEVEN) to maintain certification of the operators and equipment for independent operations.