InterMoor, a leading provider of mooring services, foundation solutions and offshore installations in subsea services group Acteon, has named Mark Jones, global chief executive officer.

Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) has announced several additional steps in the continued execution of its strategic plan to further focus the company’s portfolio and allocate capital to higher return assets:

Aberdeen-based AISUS has invested a six-figure sum in upgrading and developing cutting edge inspection technology as it looks to further broaden its range of services and increase its geographical reach to provide its customers with the most efficient, cost-effective technological solutions.

Sparrows Group has strengthened its operations in the Middle East, securing two crane contracts with Dubai Petroleum, one for maintenance services and the other for the delivery of rental cranes.

Global Oil Surplus is Mostly Gone

Booming world economic growth to stay strong and durable with credit conditions remaining constructive. Upward oil demand revisions continue.

Kosmos Energy (NYSE: KOS) (LSE: KOS) announces that in partnership with Trident Energy (Trident), it has agreed to acquire an interest in three exploration licenses, as well as Hess Corporation’s interest in the adjacent Ceiba Field and Okume Complex assets offshore Equatorial Guinea on a 50-50 basis.

Fugro has teamed up with Amplified Geochemical Imaging (AGI) to acquire offshore hydrocarbon seep data in advance of Canada’s 2018 east coast bid round. Bathymetry, backscatter and water column anomaly data will be collected to pull together a comprehensive picture of surficial geological features.

CGG has been awarded a contract by Côte d’Ivoire’s Direction Générale des Hydrocarbures (DGH) and PETROCI, the national oil company, to acquire with its local partner, Harvex Geosolutions, a multi-client program of gravity, gravity gradiometry and magnetic data over the Republic’s onshore and shallow offshore basins.

Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”) and its partners won three, 35-year production sharing contracts for pre-salt blocks located in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. Shell will pay its share of the total signing bonuses, equating for all bids, of to approximately USD $100-million [R$ 332.5-million].

McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE:MDR) announces a letter of award for a significant* contract from Reliance Industries Ltd. for the KG-D6 subsea field development in the Krishna Godavari Basin, located off the east coast of India.

Leading international oilfield services company, Expro, has successfully accomplished the world’s first proven wireless transmission of reservoir pressure data to surface, from a recently abandoned subsea appraisal well which incorporated a rock-to-rock cement plug.

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Statoil Brasil Oleo e Gas Ltd., a subsidiary of Statoil ASA (OSE:STL, NYSE:STO), ExxonMobil Exploracao Brasil Ltda., a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), and PETROGAL BRASIL, S.A., a subsidiary of Galp (NYSE: GALP.LS), were the high bidders for a production sharing contract for the Carcará North block in Brazil’s second pre-salt offshore licensing round held on 27 October.

TechnipFMC together with PETRONAS Research Sdn Bhd (PRSB) and PETRONAS Technology Ventures Sdn Bhd (PTVSB), both subsidiaries of Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), signed a Tripartite Heads of Agreement recently.

What do the offshore HVDC platforms DolWin alpha, BorWin alpha and DolWin beta in the German section of the North Sea have in common? The only right answer would be: all three power conversion platforms were fully inspected by Den Helder-based Bluestream, one of the leading providers of innovative inspection services for the offshore oil, gas and wind industry.

Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL) ("Noble Energy") has announced the election of Holli C. Ladhani to its Board of Directors, effective October 26, 2017.