Shell’s Appomattox, located in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles south of New Orleans, is the first high temperature project to gain Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) approval and begin production. The permitting work for the Appomattox project, which saw first oil in May 2019, helped define and clarify the safety requirements in BSEE’s recently published high pressure and high temperature (HP/HT) related guidance documents.

Tenaris was awarded the offshore export pipeline for the Alen Gas Monetization Project in Equatorial Guinea, a key component of Noble Energy’s growth strategy in West Africa.

Neptune Energy and its joint venture partners BP and JAPEX announced TechnipFMC has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) Target Cost contract for the Seagull development oil project in the UK North Sea.

Wild Well Control, Inc., a Superior Energy Services company, announces a new contract with Fugro for the provision of BOP intervention skids and test units for inclusion in its Subsea Response Kit.

National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), in conjunction with its joint venture (JV) partner Petrofac, has secured a new contract with Al Yasat Petroleum (an ADNOC Group company, and JV with CNPC) to provide Front End Engineering Design (FEED) services for the Belbazem Block Development Project, located offshore Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Equinor and partners Lundin and Spirit Energy have made a small oil discovery in production license 167 at the Utsira High in the North Sea.

The Liza Destiny FPSO is currently sailing to Guyana, having recently departed from Keppel shipyard in Singapore. This key milestone follows a record turnaround time of just over 20 months for its construction phase by SBM Offshore – including module construction at nearby Dyna-Mac yard.

MAN Energy Solutions has been awarded a contract to support the FEED study of a subsea compression solution for the Chevron-operated Jansz-Io field in Western Australia.

Qatar Petroleum has entered into an agreement with Total for a share of exploration and production rights in two blocks offshore Guyana in Latin America.

Subsea Expo, the world's largest annual subsea exhibition and conference, returns to Aberdeen 11-13 February 2020. The call for speakers has now been issued.

Halfwave, the in-line oil and gas pipeline inspection technology company, has been awarded four significant contract wins for subsea inspection in the first half of 2019, marking a period of notable success for the Norwegian company.

Seadrill Limited has secured a nine well contract with three options, each for two wells, for the West Gemini in West Africa.

N-Sea, a leading IMR subsea services provider, has announced the award of three contracts in the Middle East with a combined value close to $15million USD.

Schlumberger has been awarded a 20-year subsea equipment and services master contract for subsea development projects in the Gulf of Mexico by Chevron U.S.A. Combining this master contract with a preapproved catalog of standard subsea equipment will enable Chevron to decrease operating costs in its subsea projects.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer 77.8 million acres for a region-wide lease sale scheduled for Aug. 21, 2019. The sale would include all available unleased areas in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

LAGCOE’s Career Connection Job Fair presented by Rigzone will be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans from 10am – 2pm on Friday, October 11, 2019 – during the last day of LAGCOE’s biennial technical exposition and conference.