Following the successful manufacture of four strings of Helically Grooved Buoyancy for Diamond’s ‘Blackship’ vessels, combined with an extremely positive market reception to performance validation data, Diamond Offshore Drilling have extended the exclusive license for Trelleborg’s offshore operation to this patented technology until 2029.

Equinor is awarding new service contracts to Baker Hughes Norge, Halliburton AS and Schlumberger Norge AS for integrated drilling and well services on most of the Equinor-operated fields on the Norwegian continental shelf. Initially awarded for four years, the contracts have a total estimated value of some NOK 30 billion.

There is a lot of buzz around “Digitalization”. It’s trending on social media and in countless business journals around the globe. To different people it means a variety of different things from Big Data to the Cloud and the Internet of Things. So what is it and what does it mean for geosciences in the oil and gas industry?

Africa Oil Week and the Ministry of Hydrocarbons of the Republic of Congo announces the promotion of the Congo-Brazzaville License Round Phase 2 2018/19 at Africa Oil Week, 5th – 9th November 2018.

The energy industry has to continuously demonstrate its excellence in order to maintain a ‘license to operate’, says the newly appointed conference chair of SPE Offshore Europe 2019 Michael Borrell, senior vice president, North Sea and Russia at Total.

A mobile drilling platform developed by Fugro that switches seamlessly between land and shallow water work has won the Equipment Innovation category in the 2018 Ground Engineering (GE) Awards.

Equinor and Petrobras have completed their transaction announced in December 2017, whereby Equinor has acquired a 25% non-operated interest in the Roncador oil field in Brazil’s Campos Basin. This follows all transaction conditions being met, including government and regulator approval.

CGG has completed the Pre-Stack Time Migration (PSTM) of its 2,500-sq-km Dunquin multi-client survey acquired in Block 44 of the Porcupine Basin, west of Ireland, in 2017.

ConocoPhillips Australia, as operator of the Barossa joint venture, has awarded three major engineering contracts for the front-end engineering design (FEED) phase on the Barossa offshore project.

Equinor Energy AS has contracted Kongsberg Maritime to deliver the Safety and Automation Systems (SAS) for the recently announced phase 2 of the Johan Sverdrup development in the Norwegian North Sea.

Subsea 7 S.A. has announced the award of a sizeable (1) contract by Shell as part of the deepwater Vito development, approximately 150 miles south of New Orleans, in the US Gulf of Mexico.

ECA Group, France, a leading providers of advanced unmanned and autonomous systems has chosen a CTG Pipeline Leak Detection System (PLD), to be employed in the role of subsea pipeline inspection and oil leakage detection.

The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has offered Equinor 7 licenses in the 24th licensing round – 5 operatorships and 2 partner positions.

CGG announces that Sercel has launched a transition zone version of its state-of-the-art 508^XT seismic acquisition system. Seismic crews will now be able to deploy the 508^XT solution in marsh zones and water depths of up to 25 m.

Byron Energy Limited announces that Byron Energy Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, has been advised by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) that its bids for Eugene Island blocks 62, 63, 76 and 77, at Gulf of Mexico OCS Lease Sale 250 held on Wednesday 21 March 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana, have been deemed acceptable by BOEM and the leases have now been awarded to Byron.

The plan for development and operation of the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea was approved by the Norwegian Parliament on Monday 11 June. The plan will now be submitted to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for formal approval.