On the occasion of the inauguration ceremony of the Absheron gas field, whose first development phase started production in early July 2023 and is currently producing 1.5 BCMA (billions of cubic meters per year), Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, met on Thursday in Baku His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as Mr. Mikayil Jabbarov, Minister of Economy and Chairman of SOCAR’s Supervisory Board, Mr. Parviz Shahbazov, Minister of Energy, and Mr. Rovshan Najaf, President of SOCAR.

Sercel has launched MetaBlue, a ground-breaking data-driven solution for marine seismic survey planning and management.

Add Energy has been appointed to a long-term Master Services Agreement for provision of well services and emergency well control services for bp.

Ichthys LNG, a US$45 billion project operated by Japanese joint venture INPEX, turned four last year, and with that milestone came the requirement for maintenance and testing its backbone of ABB designed and installed electrical system.

Equinor has awarded COSL Offshore Management AS two contracts and will employ COSLPromoter and COSLInnovator on the Norwegian continental shelf.

CGG announces that Sercel now has a complete portfolio of seabed nodal solutions for all water depths down to 6,000 m to meet growing industry demand for ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic surveys.

Sarawak Shell Berhad (SSB), a subsidiary of Shell plc, has announced that gas production has started at its Timi platform in Malaysia under the SK318 production sharing contract (PSC).

Equinor and its partners expect to increase production by 26 million barrels of oil equivalents from Statfjord Øst.

Welltec^® has launched a life-of-well, API-qualified completion system for anchoring in cased hole – the Welltec^® Expandable Anchor (WEA).

Eni has started production of oil and gas from the Baleine Field, located in the waters offshore Côte d’Ivoire.

Hexagon | Veripos is excited to release version 7.2.0 of its Quantum visualization software.

On Friday, August 25, 2023, The American Petroleum Institute (API) joined with the State of Louisiana and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. in filing a challenge to the Department of the Interior (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Management’s (BOEM) Final Notice of Sale for Lease Sale 261.

Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. has received a two‐year contract extension with a major Operator in Brazil for the use of the 6”, 15K Trident Intervention System to facilitate well interventions as well as plug and abandonment operations.

Nauticus Robotics, Inc., a developer of autonomous robots using artificial intelligence for data collection and intervention services for the ocean industries, announces that Equinor ASA an international energy company based in Norway, has engaged Nauticus and its local business partner, Stinger Technology AS, for the deployment of the Company’s proprietary leak detection technology service.

Neptune Energy announces that drilling operations have begun at its operated Yakoot exploration well, located in the North West El Amal Concession in the southern Gulf of Suez, Egypt.

The Department of the Interior has announced new measures to enhance worker safety and ensure offshore oil and gas operations on the Outer Continental Shelf are conducted with the utmost safety and oversight standards.