Grupo R is proud to announce that it signed a contract with Shell Mexico for the lease of the La Muralla IV platform to operate in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Churchill Drilling Tools, a global oilfield service company specializing in drilling innovation, announces a successful entry to the Egyptian market after a major operator ran a record five Churchill products in its drill-string.

Equinor has, on behalf of the partners ExxonMobil and Petrogal Brasil entered into Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contracts with early commitments and pre-investments for phase 1 of the Bacalhau (formerly Carcará) area in Brazil. Contractors have been selected for both the SURF (Subsea, Umbilical, Risers and Flowlines) and the FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) contracts.

Fugro has been awarded a geotechnical contract for Apsara oil field in Block A, offshore Cambodia, as part of the nation’s first hydrocarbon development. The Apsara field lies over the Khmer Basin, an unproduced geological basin in Cambodian maritime waters in the Gulf of Thailand.

Equinor has launched a new climate roadmap aiming to ensure a competitive and resilient business model in the energy transition, fit for long term value creation and in line with the Paris Agreement.

As the UK leaves the EU, ripple effects will be felt throughout the UK economy. For the oil and gas industry, changes will occur but the impact of Brexit is unlikely to hamper the strong industry ties that currently exist between the UK and the EU, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Aquaterra Energy, a leader in global offshore engineering solutions, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Oceaneering International Services Ltd. (Oceaneering), to offer complete decommissioning and late life solution packages to the North Sea oil and gas industry.

The fourth annual Global Energy Talent Index (GETI), the world’s largest energy recruitment and employment trends report, was released on Tuesday, January 28, 2020, showing that oil and gas professionals are concerned at a perceived lack of investment in their training and development.

CGG has announced the final 3D PSDM seismic dataset from its recent 15,400 sq km multi-client survey of the outer Zambezi Delta in the Mozambique Basin is now available for licence. The ultramodern data was acquired over blocks Z5-C and Z5-D and surrounding open acreage as part of a multi-client program agreed between CGG and Mozambique’s Instituto Nacional de Petroleo (INP).

Eni signed a new lon- term contract for the purchase of 1,5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas with Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), a joint venture between NNPC, Shell, Total and Eni (with Eni having a participating interest of 10.4%).

Halliburton Company has been awarded seven contracts for drilling and completion services for the next phase of field development of the INPEX-operated Ichthys Project in the Browse Basin offshore northern Australia.

Hess announced another oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Uaru well, the 16^th discovery on the Stabroek Block. The company also announced an increase in the estimated gross discovered recoverable resources for the block to more than 8 billion barrels of oil equivalent, up from the previous estimate of 6 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

Demand from the world’s top oil companies for floating drilling units has climbed steadily in the past two years and is set to rise further through 2020 and 2021 as the majors step up development and exploration activity in deepwater basins.

Subsea 7 S.A. announces the award to Subsea Integration Alliance⁽¹⁾ of an exclusive contract by Equinor for the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) study on its Bacalhau (formerly Carcará) project, offshore Brazil. The Bacalhau field is located 185 km from the coast of the State of São Paulo, in water depths of 2050 meters.

The International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP), the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Asociación Mexicana de Empresas de Hidrocarburos (AMEXHI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formalizing their mutual cooperation to strengthen their working relationship and joint efforts to help advance operational performance across North America operation.

BHP Petroleum (via its subsidiary BHP Billiton Petróleo Operaciones de Mexico, S. De R. L. De C.V.) has contracted DORIS Inc. for the execution of Engineer Services for the SURF and Export Pipeline scopes of work of the Trion Project located in the Mexican Sector of the Gulf of Mexico.