Leading international integrated subsea services company Kreuz Subsea has mobilized the recently delivered new-build dive support vessel, Kreuz Challenger, as part of its seven-year contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sdn. Bhd. (BSP).

Statoil is awarding, on behalf of the Njord license, a contract to Aibel for upgrading of the Njord Bravo floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel in the Norwegian Sea. The contract value is around NOK 1.3 billion.

Oil Plus Ltd, a specialist global oil and gas consultancy has secured contracts worth more than $1.5m over the past three months and has significantly expanded its footprint in the Middle East.

Osbit Ltd, an offshore engineering and technology company, has secured a project with DeepOcean to deliver a significant upgrade to a subsea plough, enhancing its capabilities for the installation of a new gas pipeline.

Eni announces the approval of the Plan of Development (POD) for the Merakes field located in the East Sepinggan PSC in the Makassar Strait, offshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

LNG Allies has released an updated report that summarizes the potential for significant economic benefits and job growth from the U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions announces the launch of a new metal end cap seal specifically engineered for High Temperature High Pressure (HTHP) wellhead, tubing and casing hanger sealing environments, which combines the pressure and extrusion resistance of a metal-to-metal bonded component with the flexibility of an elastomer.

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. has announced the launch of its Sim-Stack service, the offshore drilling industry's first cybernetic BOP service enabling Diamond Offshore to continuously and accurately assess BOP status.

BlueFin and Emerson announces that they have signed a working partnership agreement to deliver the Roxar gauge technology to the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM) region.

Air Control Entech (ACE) and the Oil & Gas Technology Centre have reached a major milestone, with the launch of three state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which aim to reduce offshore oil and gas inspection costs by up to 50%.

International engineering and operations support services contractor ODE, an integral part of the DORIS Group, has been awarded a contract to act as Pipeline Operator on behalf of Independent Oil and Gas Plc (IOG) for the Thames Pipeline that will serve the Blythe Hub and Vulcan Satellites Hub Developments.

Energy services company Proserv has secured a contract worth over $5.5 million (45 million Norwegian Kroner) with Repsol to upgrade and build new subsea production control equipment for the Yme field redevelopment in the Norwegian North Sea.

Pipetech, the independent process system integrity specialist, has launched a new Active Caisson Management service following a number of recent projects with North Sea operators.

Exploration strategy has evolved in a period of lower oil prices and at a time when high impact oil discoveries are proving elusive. Paul Dailly, Founding Partner and Head of New Ventures, Kosmos Energy shares his thoughts about the future of exploration.

Due to the success of President Donald J. Trump’s America-First energy strategy, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announces that the Department of the Interior will not lower royalty rates for future offshore oil and gas lease sales at this time.

DNV GL has revised its classification rules for Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) systems and introduced two new class notations DRILL(MPD) and DRILL(MPD READY). Stena Drilling Ltd. (SDL) is the first drilling contractor to receive the notation Drill(MPD) for their harsh environment drillship Stena Carron.