National Oil Corporation (NOC) and Eni announce that Mellitah Oil & Gas, Eni and NOC joint venture company (50/50), has started production from the first well of the offshore Bahr Essalam Phase 2 project. This comes just three years after the final investment decision. Two further wells will begin production within a week. An additional seven wells will come on-stream by October 2018.

Churchill Drilling Tools, a leading oilfield service company specializing in drilling innovation, has revealed that its flagship tool, the DAV MX™ CircSub, made a major contribution to a recent successful Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) run in the North Sea.

Total and Pavilion Energy, through their subsidiaries Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions and Pavilion Gas, have signed Heads of Agreement (HoA) to jointly develop a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) bunker supply chain in the port of Singapore.

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.

Equinor and Barra Energia (“Barra”) have signed an agreement for Equinor to acquire Barra’s 10% interest in the BM-S-8 license in Brazil’s Santos basin. This transaction will enable Equinor and its partners to fully align interests across the two licenses for the Carcará area.

The Troll oil and gas field is the most prolific field on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS), with more than half of its reserves still remaining after over 20 years of production.

Slated for launch in 5-7 March 2019, Oil & Gas Tech Asia 2019 is the only specialized trade show in Ho Chi Minh City to showcase the latest technology in both upstream and downstream of the Oil & Gas Industry.

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.

The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved the plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Snorre Expansion Project. Investments of just above NOK 19 billion (2017) will increase recovery from the Snorre field by almost 200 million barrels and extend the field life beyond 2040.

On July 3, Equinor and partners in the Troll license submitted the plan for further development of the gigantic Troll field on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.

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.

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.

BMT has completed a project for Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) providing marine simulation studies which have supported the installation of Shell’s Appomattox Floating Production System.

BP and its partners in the Shah Deniz consortium announces the start-up of the landmark Shah Deniz 2 gas development in Azerbaijan, including its first commercial gas delivery to Turkey.

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.

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.