Marine and offshore engineering consultancy AqualisBraemar has completed its 1,000^th leg penetration assessment, which took place offshore Saudi Arabia.

Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) and Minas Tidal LP (MTLP) have agreed to co-develop their adjacent berths at the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) and will utilize SME’s PLAT-I floating in-stream tidal energy technology to deliver up to 9MW of tidal energy to the Nova Scotia grid.

Marlink has reported a significant boost in demand for more bandwidth and new installations from new energy sector customers and increased activity from its existing customer base at sea and on land.

i-Tech 7, Subsea 7’s Life of Field business unit, has successfully completed a subsea decommissioning and abandonment project for LLOG Exploration Co. in the Gulf of Mexico, using its smart skid technology.

Benthic, a global geosciences company and part of Acteon, has secured an offshore geotechnical and geophysical contract from TechnipFMC for the Golfinho development, a deepwater discovery off the coast of Mozambique that will be developed as a subsea system tied back to an onshore liquefied natural gas facility.

Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding has awarded TMC Compressors of the Seas (TMC) a contract to supply the marine compressed air system to the Liza Unity FPSO.

Vår Energi AS has awarded BHGE and Norwegian subsea contractor Ocean Installer a subsea contract for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of subsea systems and associated services for the Balder X project on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

Weatherford International plc (announced it has signed a $220 million, three-year contract with the Abu Dhabi Company for Offshore Petroleum Operations Limited (“ADNOC Offshore”) to provide directional drilling services for the stated goal of increasing offshore production for ADNOC Offshore in the UAE. The agreement entails using the Weatherford Magnus® rotary steerable system in both re-entry wells and new wells.

On August 21, Damen Shipyards Group signed a contract with the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJAM) for the delivery of a Utility Vessel 3911. The vessel will be used by Damen’s client for buoy-laying and maintenance support operations in the ports of the island nation.

Subsea 7 S.A. announces the award of two contracts, together representing a sizeable(1) contract award, by BP Exploration for the Azeri Central East (ACE) project in the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) field in the Caspian Sea in a water depth of approximately 140 meters.

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TechnipFMC and DNV GL have entered into a partnership to develop the oil and gas industry’s first methodology for qualifying the integrity of digital twin technology.

Chrysaor Holdings Limited announces that it has completed its acquisition of ConocoPhillips’ UK oil and gas business (“ConocoPhillips UK”) for $2.675 billion. With an effective date of 1 January 2018, completion of the transaction follows receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals.

Aberdeen-based oil and gas production technology business, Pragma, has developed an advanced downhole safety valve to create an improved well control solution for cable deployed Electric Submersible Pumps (ESPs) retrofitted to production wells.

A first of its kind event focusing solely on the subsea and drilling industries in Brazil is set to take place in Rio de Janeiro in November.

Energy rental and service company, Tiger Rentals (“Tiger”) announces the appointment of Paulo Silva Curto as Business Development Manager for Middle East. Paulo has over 15 years’ experience working in international business, most of them within the global upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, in various senior management and commercial roles. Most recently, he was Tiger’s General Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa.