Petrofac’s Engineering and Production Services (EPS) business has been awarded an Engineering and Project Management Office support contract for the Acorn project.

Maersk Drilling is joining a new CO₂ storage consortium formed by INEOS Oil & Gas Denmark and Wintershall Dea. The consortium is maturing one of the most progressed carbon capture and storage projects inside Danish jurisdiction and targets the development of CO₂ storage capacity offshore Denmark based on reusing discontinued offshore oil and gas fields for permanent CO₂ storage.

Decom North Sea (DNS), the only membership organization dedicated to the oil and gas decommissioning sector, has announced the creation of a landmark agreement which is designed to deliver a mutually beneficial relationship between its members and Brunei’s growing late life & decommissioning sector.

Aker Solutions was awarded a contract from Subsea 7 to deliver umbilicals for Murphy Exploration and Production Company - USA’s King’s Quay development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. has announced the debut of its most revolutionary product to date, the Trident Intervention System, continuing a legacy of bringing innovation to intervention.

Aker Solutions has developed a modified workover system that enables faster and more cost-effective planned interventions. The concept will first be applied on Equinor’s Visund field in the North Sea.

Leading marine equipment fabrication and rental specialist, Motive Offshore, continues to strengthen its global positioning as it signs an MOU with Orca Offshore.

Innovative new artificial intelligence-based software with the potential to streamline oil and gas industry logistics in the North Sea, saving millions of pounds and reducing CO₂ emissions, is now under development.

Neodrill,  a leader in pre-rig technology solutions, has together with Baker Hughes, a leading energy technology company, performed the world’s first cut and recover operation for Wintershall Dea Norge in the Norwegian Sea. Rig time was reduced by an estimated 12 hours, with work to cut the surface casing moved off the critical path of the rig schedule.

Fugro has won a 3-year inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) contract with SEAMEC LIMITED (Seamec) to support their asset management project for ONGC off the west coast of India. Fugro will provide Seamec with work class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) services for 3 years from mid-June, with the option of a 2-year extension.

Equinor and Aker BP have entered into an agreement on commercial terms for a coordinated development of the licenses Krafla, Fulla and North of Alvheim (NOA) on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Aker BP has awarded Kvaerner the contract for delivering the topside and steel substructure for the normally unmanned wellhead platform at the Hod field.

Aker BP, on behalf of the Wellhead Platform Alliance, has awarded liquid handling and pump specialist PG Flow Solutions a contract to supply a number of pump systems for the normally unmanned wellhead platform to be used at the planned Hod field development in the North Sea. 

Neptune Energy announces that drilling has commenced on the Dugong exploration well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. 
 

A revival in manufacturing across the world holds the key to the mid-term recovery of oil and gas markets, with consumer demand likely to lag as the energy industry begins to recover from the twin shock of the COVID-19 crisis and the resulting demand crash.

C-Kore systems completed a successful campaign offshore Nigeria with VAYCO Oil tools and local Nigerian partner Cranium Engineering.