Antonio Oburu Ondo, Equatorial Guinea’s recently appointed Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, has awarded independent exploration and production company, Panoro Energy, a 56% participating interest and operatorship in Block EG-01 offshore the hydrocarbon-rich West African country, as well as Canadian oil and gas company, the Africa Oil Corporation, two production sharing contracts (PSC) for offshore Blocks EG-18 and EG-31.

Houston-based marine engineering firm, Zentech Technical Services Incorporated (Zentech), has been awarded marine engineering scope by New Fortress Energy (NFE), for the conversion of three (3)Jack-Up Rigs to be deployed and installed in the Gulf of Mexico as an offshore gas processing and liquefaction plant.

Ocean services provider DeepOcean been awarded two contracts by Equinor for the Irpa and Verdande field developments, located in the Norwegian Sea. The two projects will be executed in a consortium between DeepOcean and Subsea7.

C-Kore’s Subsea Testing tools have successfully completed a complex subsea electrical integrity campaign for a major oil operator in Nigeria, via VAYCO Oil Tools and their Nigerian partner, Cranium Engineering.

TechnipFMC has been awarded a significant⁽¹⁾ contract for the subsea production system for Equinor’s Verdande project on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Borr Drilling has been awarded a new contract and two extensions for its premium jack-up drilling rigs “Ran”, “Gerd” and “Natt”. These awards increase the company’s firm backlog by approximately 625 days, excluding unexercised optional periods.

Reach Subsea ASA, the trusted data and subsea service provider for ocean-based industries, has been awarded 6 months plus options contract from a major renewable energy company for delivery of offshore wind related services.

JDR, the global subsea cable supplier and servicer, owned by the TFKable Group, has been awarded a contract by Petrogas E&P Netherlands to supply two umbilicals for the A15 and B10 offshore conventional gas fields in the Netherlands.

Europe’s increased need for liquefied natural gas (LNG) looks set to intensify competition with Asia for limited new supply available over the next two years and may dominate LNG trade over the longer term, according to Shell’s LNG Outlook 2023.

Engineering firm, Quanta has secured another three-year framework extension agreement to provide continued engineering support for an existing oil and gas client.

Subsea7 S.A. has been awarded two contracts by Equinor for the Irpa and Verdande field developments, located in the Norwegian Sea. The combined project awards are defined as sizeable¹.

APA Corporation announces the successful drilling and flow testing of the Sapakara South-2 (SPS-2) appraisal well, the second appraisal well to test the previously announced discovery. The well is located approximately 4.6 kilometers (3 miles) south of the Sapakara South-1 (SPS-1) appraisal well.

Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Shell plc (Shell), announced that production has started at the Shell-operated Vito floating production facility in the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM). With an estimated peak production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, Vito is the company’s first deep-water platform in the GoM to employ a simplified, cost-efficient host design.

Unity, Europe’s largest provider of well integrity solutions, is developing a new additive manufactured lightweight gate which can be retrofitted to Xmas Tree gate valves to remediate seal integrity issues in low-pressure wells.

CGG and TGS have been jointly awarded the acquisition and imaging of a dense ocean bottom node (OBN) multi-client seismic survey in the Balder and Ringhorne areas of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

Equinor has made an oil and gas discovery close to the Troll field in the North Sea. This is the seventh discovery in this area since the autumn of 2019.