Unity, Europe’s largest provider of well integrity solutions, has launched a new Wellhead Integrity Verification Program for operators and integrated service providers beginning to plan their well abandonment operations.

Global oceans insights experts Miros, through local partner Belga Marine, has won a significant contract with Brazilian oil major Petrobras to update its existing oil spill detection efforts.

China Merchant Heavy Industries (CMHI) has contracted TMC Compressors (TMC) to deliver the completed marine compressed air system to a newbuild FPSO the Chinese yard is constructing for SBM Offshore. 

Vår Energi has contracted technology supplier Vissim to implement upgraded oil spill detection technology at the operator’s installations on the Norwegian continental shelf. 

Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. (TEI) recently delivered two subsea manifolds, two High Integrity Pressure Protection Systems (HIPPS), along with Trendsetter’s field proven TCS clamp connectors to Woodside Energy for use in their Shenzi North Field in the Gulf of Mexico.

CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA), an international marine environmental consulting and survey company, has released details of a recent collaboration with HWCG, a consortium of deepwater operators in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), to create a Surface Monitoring Equipment program designed to assist offshore oil and gas operators with enhancing their environmental monitoring and preparedness capabilities.

Equinor has awarded Ocean Installer an EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction & Installation) contract for the Eirin subsea tie-back development. In addition, the award also constitutes an option for a new Gas Export solution from Troll B via the existing Kvitebjørn export pipeline.

Kosmos Energy has made an oil discovery in the US Gulf of Mexico at the Tiberius exploration well. Kosmos is operator of the well and has a 33.34% working interest alongside Occidental and Equinor ASA (both 33.33%).

TechnipFMC has been awarded⁽¹⁾ a contract to manufacture flexible pipe by Woodside Energy.

Harland & Wolff has been awarded a £61m base contract to deliver the mid-life upgrade contract of the SeaRose Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel.

Saipem, in consortium with National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), has signed a letter of award with ADNOC for a new contract related to the Hail and Ghasha Development Project – Package 1 in the United Arab Emirates.

Over the last five years fossil fuels have met only half of the new demand for energy globally, despite a rapid buildout of renewable capacity, according to DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook.

In July this year, AIS was awarded a significant Subsea Production System contract for the insulation of 47-off Christmas Trees as part of a development in the Norwegian North Sea.

Production from the Breidablikk field in the North Sea started on 20 October, four months ahead of schedule and within budget. Tied back to the Grane platform, the subsea field holds almost 200 million barrels of recoverable oil.

SBM Offshore has been awarded contracts to perform Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) for the Whiptail development project in Guyana.

Coretrax, a global leader in well integrity and production optimization, has successfully deployed its 1,000th CX-2 bridge plug during a project in the North Sea.