Maersk Drilling has been awarded a 4-year contract for the deep-water drillship Maersk Venturer by Tullow Ghana Ltd.

McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE:MDR) has announced a substantial* contract award from Mærsk Olie og Gas A/S (Maersk Oil) for engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) services for the Tyra Redevelopment project, located offshore in the Danish sector of the North Sea.

In response to a Presidential Order to reduce undue burden on industry, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) completed a comprehensive review of the Production Safety Systems regulations.

Aker Solutions has won orders from Aker BP for the Skogul and Valhall Flank West oil fields offshore Norway.

DeepOcean AS, as subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV (DeepOcean), has been awarded a significant contract for performing marine operation scope on the Snorre Expansion Project in the North Sea.

BP has confirmed that production has started from the super-giant Zohr gas field, offshore Egypt. The field is operated by Eni, through its joint venture with The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), and is the largest natural gas discovery yet to be made in the Mediterranean Sea.

Saipem has signed a contract with Eni Angola S.p.A. in relation to the West Hub Development project in Angola, which incorporates the work orders previously assigned and communicated in 2016 and 2017 and adds the scope of work for the development of the Vandumbu field in Block 15/06.

BiSN is a leading provider of metal to metal downhole sealing solutions to the oil and gas industry, utilizing their groundbreaking modified thermite heater. They are breaking the mould of traditional elastomer seals and cement.

Statoil has signed framework agreements with Technip Norge AS (Technip) and Subsea 7 Norway AS (Subsea 7) on the performance of manned underwater operations in 2018. Through a Pool Agreement, Point Resources and Gassco AS also wish to make use of the framework agreements.

New oil exploration in Arctic federal waters was underway last week with the spudding of a new oil well from an existing man-made island in the Beaufort Sea.

The Global Marine Group (GMG), a market leader in offshore engineering services to the telecommunications, renewables and oil & gas industries, announces the launch of Global Offshore, a new business unit that will deliver trenching and power cable laying services to the oil & gas sector.

ExxonMobil has announced the completion of a transaction by ExxonMobil Development Africa B.V. to acquire a 25 percent indirect interest in Mozambique’s gas-rich Area 4 block from Eni and assume responsibility for midstream operations.

Ask an equipment manufacturer for cheap, light, and strong, and most will tell you it can’t be done. Fuglesangs Subsea, project manager for the JIP, will tell you otherwise.

Otto Energy Limited announces that the OCS G - 34266 #F - 2 well (‘SM 71 F2’), operated on behalf of the joint venture by Byron Energy Ltd within the South Marsh Island 71 (‘ SM 71 ’) lease in the Gulf Of Mexico shelf , has encountered four discrete hydrocarbon bearing sands.

Wintershall, and its licence partners Petoro and Spirit Energy, have started production at the Maria field one year ahead of schedule. Costs have been reduced by more than 20% compared to plan.

Statoil and Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção (QGEP) have completed their transaction announced in July 2017, whereby Statoil has acquired QGEP’s 10% interest in the BM-S-8 block in Brazil’s Santos basin for a total consideration of USD 379 million.