Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announces that the Company has signed a contract with Premier Oil, to supply a PowerBuoy™ for a deployment in the Huntington Field, one of Premier Oil’s offshore fields in the Central North Sea.

Subsea 7 has announced the award of a substantial (1) contract by Total E&P Angola for the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of the subsea flowlines and umbilicals for the Zinia Phase 2 project, 150 kilometers offshore Angola in water depths from 800 to 1,000 meters.

Following an EU tender against international competition, a consortium of SeaRenergy and N-Sea has been awarded a project by TenneT covering modification works to the jacket structure of the HVDC platform Dolwin alpha, in the German Exclusive Economic Zone of the North Sea.

DOF Subsea has been awarded several contracts in the Atlantic region, securing utilization for the vessels Geosund and Skandi Skansen throughout Q2 and Q3.

DNV GL has appointed Neil Jamieson Fraser as its new head of Noble Denton marine services in the UK and West Africa. The role will focus on marine warranty, marine advisory/assurance, technical assurance, and advanced engineering services.

Global integrated subsea services business, Kreuz Subsea, has appointed Jerry Starling as director of diving and ROV operations.

Global LNG Services (GLS) makes significant progress for the Main Pass Energy Hub™ (MPEH) Deepwater Port project, owned by its US subsidiary MPEH LLC and located 16 miles offshore southeast Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Two LIQUI-MAX™ vessels, capable of producing a total of 24 million tonnes per annum of LNG, will be permanently stationed at MPEH.

Petrotechnics, the developer of Proscient – the hazardous industries’ first software platform for operational excellence – has launched Proscient v4.0, the first off-the-shelf software platform to fast-track companies’ journeys to digital operations.

ExxonMobil and Eni says that marketing efforts are underway for the Rovuma LNG project, which will produce, liquefy and sell natural gas from the gas fields of the Area 4 block offshore Mozambique.

A new portable survey solution for monitoring tide, met and other sensors has been launched by leading British oceanographic and hydrographic instrument specialist, Valeport. The new TideStation (Portable) is a self-contained tidal observation hub which optimises performance of instrumentation.

McDermott International, Inc. and Baker Hughes, a GE company have announced the award of a contract by POSCO DAEWOO Corp. for phase two of the Shwe gas field development offshore Western Myanmar.

Aberdeen-headquartered casing and completion technology business, Deep Casing Tools, has appointed a new Region Manager for the Middle East division of the company. Based in the UAE, Neil Hathaway will lead the company’s growth strategy in the region.

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. has announced the launch of its Blockchain Drilling service, the first application of blockchain technology in the offshore drilling industry. This service drives efficiencies and enables oil and gas operators to reduce their total cost of ownership.

Nexans has been awarded a major contract to provide complex umbilicals with power, fiber-optic and hydraulic elements for the next stage of the multi-phased Snøhvit development.

Understanding how moored vessels respond to dynamic wind, wave, and current conditions is essential to port authorities, terminal operators, as well as master planners and designers. A port planner knows the efficiency of a terminal could already be decided during early port planning stages – just by looking at predicted vessel motions. There’s a way to do so even more efficiently. In the initial planning process, all kinds of dynamic impacts should be included into the picture.

Trelleborg’s marine systems operation has supplied a suite of products to H-Energy’s Floating Storage Re-gasification Unit (FSRU) based LNG terminal at JSW Infrastructure’s Jaigarh Port in Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra.