National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Erik Milito issued the following statement after the conclusion of Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 257, which generated more than $191 million in winning bids over 308 lease blocks:

Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, and hosted by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), ADIPEC is the largest annual gathering for the energy sector.

Aberdeen headquartered EnerMech has been awarded a five-year contract to deliver tensioning, torquing and associated services across all of TAQA’s North Sea platforms. 

Sparrows Group (Sparrows), the engineering and maintenance services specialist for the international energy and industrial sectors, has secured an additional contract with India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to refurbish eight offshore pedestal cranes.

APA Corporation has announced results from flow testing at the Sapakara South appraisal well and drilling results from the Bonboni exploration well, both operations recently completed on Block 58 offshore Suriname. APA Suriname holds a 50% working interest in the block, with TotalEnergies (TTE), the operator, holding a 50% working interest.

CGG has licensed its high-end Northern Viking Graben multi-client seismic data set in the Northern North Sea to Northern Lights JV DA, for use in its ongoing and future CO₂ storage developments. Northern Lights JV DA is the operator of the first industry-scale project for transport and storage of CO₂ on the Norwegian continental shelf.

Specialist drilling waste management company, TWMA, will highlight how its wellsite processing solution has been proven to reduce the carbon emissions of drilling operations by 50% at this year’s ADIPEC.

Intelligent Wellhead Systems Inc. (IWS), a leading supplier of digital technologies that improve oil and gas well completion operations, has released its tenth-generation digital completion technology, inVision X.

Huawei hosted its Global Oil & Gas Summit 2021 in Abu Dhabi, themed "Drive Data to Barrel, Embrace Intelligence to Grow".

The announcement of the merger of Maersk Drilling and Noble Drilling came as no surprise to many of us that follow the industry.

Greece’s leading academic institution, International Hellenic University, is investing more than one million euros in a new state-of-the-art simulator training facility to support the oil and gas industry.

The Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), the global platform of the leading gas producing nations, has urged the international community gathered in Glasgow, UK, for UNFCCC COP26 to look for energy options that achieve the right balance between the post-COVID-19 economic and social requirements and climate actions, particularly for the most vulnerable regions of the world.

TechnipFMC has been awarded a large⁽¹⁾ contract by Exxon Mobil Corporation affiliate, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, to supply the subsea production system for the Yellowtail development.

C-Kore Systems recently signed a contract with TechnipFMC in Brazil for delivery of their sub- sea testing tools for the Mero 1 project, in which Petrobras (40%) acts as Operator of the Libra Consortium, formed by the companies Shell Brasil (20%), TotalEnergies (20%), CNODC (10%) and CNOOC Limited (10%), with Pré-sal Petróleo S.A. – PPSA, as the manager of the Produc- tion Sharing Contract.

Enteq Technologies (Enteq), an energy services technology and equipment supplier, announces successful results of initial downhole and system testing of the SABER Tool; its innovative alternative to traditional rotary steerable systems (RSS) for directional drilling.

Technology has been very important for developing the oil and gas industry in Norway.