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.

Aquaterra Energy, a leader in global offshore energy engineering solutions, has been awarded a $4.4 million (USD) contract with BW Energy to provide procurement, engineering, manufacture, installation, and commissioning support of multiple conductor tensioning units for the repurposing of the Hibiscus Alpha jack-up rig to an offshore installation (OI), located offshore Gabon, West Africa.

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.

DeepOcean has been awarded a frame agreement contract by an undisclosed US-based operator for delivery of engineering, project management and vessel support to execute a wide range of subsea activities throughout 2022.

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.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has updated its Compendium of GHG Emissions Methodologies for the Natural Gas and Oil Industry, the foundational reference used by companies and governments across the world as methodologies for reporting GHG emissions from natural gas and oil operations, including for API’s climate-related reporting template released earlier this year.

On behalf of the Wisting license partners, Equinor has signed a contract with Aker Solutions for front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a floating production and storage vessel (FPSO) for the Wisting field.

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.

LAGCOE has announced the return to Lafayette, Louisiana for the 2022 technical conference and exposition.

The ‘methane fee’, a part of the amended text of the Build Back Better Act released by the House Rules Committee in the US, could cost the petroleum and natural gas industry $1.3 billion in 2025 under a status quo scenario, a Rystad Energy analysis shows.