The Annual MTS Houston Section Barbecue will be held on October 26, 2017 and takes the place of the regularly scheduled monthly lunch meeting. This year’s barbecue is being hosted by SEANIC OCEAN SYSTEMS at its Houston location. This is the second row in a year that Seanic has hosted the event.

Churchill Drilling Tools, a global oilfield service company specialising in drilling innovation, and its Norwegian distributor, ToolServ, are celebrating a five-year partnership which has helped oil and gas operators in the Norwegian sector improve their drill programs.

Danos has been awarded a contract by Shell Exploration and Production Company, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, to provide mechanical and automation maintenance services for three of its production hubs and associated subsea infrastructure located in the Gulf of Mexico.

Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. (Phoenix) announces that Troy Turner has been appointed as Area Manager for our Bayou Vista, Louisiana location. In this position, Troy will be responsible for overseeing and directing the day-to-day activities of the office, and actively pursuing growth opportunities for all Phoenix services in the area.

Sparrows Group has formed Sparrows Offshore Ghana Ltd, a Joint Venture (JV) with local partner Hydra Group Limited, to deliver crane, lifting and inspection services in Ghana.

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) has announced a consolidation of its leadership structure. Since the beginning of 2015, Anadarko has sold nearly $7.5 billion of non-core assets in order to reposition and focus its business to deliver better returns and growth across commodity cycles. These management changes align with the evolution of the portfolio and strategic direction the company has taken.

Trelleborg will present its range of passive fire protection solutions at Offshore Technology Days (OTD) 2017 in Stavanger, Norway. Located in Hall B on stand 2708, the company will showcase a number of offshore innovations including Elastopipe™, Vikodeck™ and FireNut™.

M² Subsea, the global independent provider of ROV services, has unveiled its recently commissioned purpose-built test tank at the company’s base in Westhill, Aberdeenshire.

Ampelmann, a global leader in offshore access solutions, has announced an exclusive partnership with Seaqualize, a Dutch marine motion technology innovator, to collaborate on the development of its latest S-type gangway.

National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) Chairman David Welch has appointed four new members to the association’s Board of Directors.

Liv Hovem will take over as CEO of DNV GL’s Oil & Gas business area, which provides integrated technical assurance and advisory services to operators, suppliers and regulators across the oil and gas value chain, from project initiation to decommissioning. She will be based at the DNV GL – Oil & Gas headquarters in Høvik, Norway and be a member of the DNV GL Group's Executive Committee.

CGG has been present in Brazil for over 55 years, since the company began working with Petrobras in 1961.

Add Energy and DC Gruppe have combined their industry expertise to provide innovative engineering and asset support services to some of the most challenging industrial problems in Saudi Arabia.

Flow assurance and production optimisation specialist, ClearWELL Oilfield Solutions, has appointed a managing director as the company looks to increase its international footprint.

As part of its continuing global growth strategy, subsea IMR provider N-Sea has announced the opening of a new office in Stralsund, Germany.

BiSN, a global leader in innovative metal-to-metal downhole sealing solutions, has successfully completed its first project in the North Sea.