Delta SubSea LLC. and Optime SubSea AS have entered into an agreement to provide combined service solutions to their clients’ deep-water control needs, whether it is XT control for installation, interventions, testing, SCM diagnostics or other subsea XT test or controls applications.

Stone Energy Corporation (NYSE: SGY) has announced drilling success at the deep water Mt. Providence development well at Mississippi Canyon Block 28. Stone generated the prospect and owns a 100% working interest in the well.

Gibdock has extended its impressive track record in the offshore vessel sector, following the visit of the 5700dwt 3D seismic survey vessel Polar Marquis, operated by Norwegian company GC Rieber Shipping. The Bergen-based offshore shipping specialist is a repeat customer for Gibdock, having docked several vessels for repair and renewal in the past.

Downstream Markets Will Remain Strong

Crowley Fuels LLC announces that it has signed a construction contract with Bollinger Shipyards to build a new Alaska Class 100,000-barrel-capacity articulated tug-barge (ATB) to transport multiple clean petroleum products in the Alaska market.

Ad Hoc Marine Designs is championing the feasibility of its Typhoon Class Swath design as the best suited windfarm vessel to meet significant wave height requirements for future rounds of offshore windfarms.

At the next MTS Houston lunch on January 25, Edwin Verdonk Vice President with Shell will present a summary of Shell’s Deepwater Development Strategy.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has announced the next step for responsibly developing the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program (National OCS Program) for 2019-2024, which proposes to make over 90 percent of the total OCS acreage and more than 98 percent of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources in federal offshore areas available to consider for future exploration and development. By comparison, the current program puts 94 percent of the OCS off limits. In addition, the program proposes the largest number of lease sales in U.S. history.

Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) announces a final investment decision on the redevelopment of the Penguins oil and gas field in the UK North Sea.

BMT and Metocean Services International (MSI) have been jointly awarded a contract by Gastrade to deploy an Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) and develop metocean criteria to be utilized for the design of the offshore moored FSRU and the subsea pipeline to shore.

RPSEA has released its Technology Roadmap, a plan that outlines the challenges and research needs of the U.S. onshore and offshore oil and gas industry for the coming decade. It takes advantage of RPSEA’s extensive network leading subject matter experts in looking at challenges best addressed through investments in R&D, providing value in terms of energy security, jobs and the economy while improving safety and environmental performance for the next decade.

ExxonMobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announces positive results from its Ranger-1 exploration well, marking ExxonMobil’s sixth oil discovery offshore Guyana since 2015.

Global Energy Group (GEG), a Scotland-headquartered energy sector service provider, has played a key role, together with local businesses, in supporting Premier Oil to reach first oil on the Catcher field in the North Sea. This was safely achieved on 23 December 2017.

CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) announces the expansion of its operations in Trinidad and Tobago. CSA Ocean Sciences (Trinidad) Limited, will be led by Ms. Candice Leung Chee, Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Carlyle Kalloo, Director, and Mr. Rameez Persad, Operations Manager.

Representatives from CLS America, Inc., Horizon Marine, Inc. and The Woods Hole Group Inc. announced the merging of the three companies effective January 1, 2018 resulting in the new company retaining the name The Woods Hole Group, Inc.

Aqueos Corporation, a ‘World Class Subsea Service Provider℠’ operating in the Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Coast and select International Regions has been awarded a major contract from a world-leading, international contractor for a large pipeline installation project located in the Gulf of Mexico.