Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., an international offshore energy services company headquartered in Houston, Texas, has joined Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. in a global partnership to provide integrated hydraulic intervention services for subsea wells and flowlines.

Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has safely and successfully re-started production at the Mars and Ursa platforms in the US Gulf of Mexico and began exporting oil and gas through the West Delta-143 (WD-143) “A” facility.

McDermott has successfully completed its first delivery with sail away on Aug. 24, 2021 of two bridges and a flare for the Tyra Redevelopment project for TotalEnergies EP Denmark.

Nekkar ASA's (Nekkar) subsidiary company, Intellilift AS, has established a joint venture (JV), Inteliwell, with a subsidiary of Transocean Inc. (Transocean) for the purpose of commercializing products and services based on a digital well construction solution that is currently being developed in close cooperation between the JV partners.

Trendsetter Engineering, Inc., a leading provider of subsea intervention systems and services, announces that it has rounded out its subsea intervention capabilities with the delivery of its industry leading 15,000psi Pressure Control Head (PCH) and Lubricator Assembly.

A robotic boat has been used for the first time to survey fish populations around oil platforms in the North Sea.

STATS Group has established a new Australian entity and will invest up to $AUD 2 million (£1 million) in workshop facilities and intervention equipment to support its drive in the country’s pipeline integrity market.

Further to the announcement on 15 December 2020, CGG, PGS and TGS, industry leaders of multi-client geoscience data, have announced Versal – a unified seismic data ecosystem giving access to three of the world’s largest multi-client libraries via a single log-in.

A breakthrough in leak risk detection at oil pipe flanges comes from research by the University of Houston using a Saab Seaeye Falcon robot as a development platform.

EnerMech has formed a strategic alliance with Offshore Technical Services Ltd (OTS) to further support the execution of its large capital projects around the globe. The exclusive agreement positions the organisation as a market leader in full cycle project completions.

Equinor, with partners PGNiG Upstream Norway and Longboat Energy Norway, has found oil in exploration well 6407 / 1-9 - Egyptian Vulture. Preliminary estimates show that between 3 and 10 million standard cubic meters of recoverable oil equivalents have been proven in the well, corresponding to 19-62 million barrels.

Saipem and TechnipFMC have entered into a global commercial agreement that will allow them to identify projects worldwide that could be jointly executed for the benefit of clients.

Rockwash Geodata Ltd, an industry leading geological laboratory and services company, has announced a collaboration agreement with analytics and machine learning company Earth Science Analytics (ESA).

Equinor has entered into an agreement with Eni to sell a 10% interest in the Dogger Bank Wind Farm C project in the UK.

VAALCO Energy, Inc. (NYSE: EGY; LSE: EGY) (“VAALCO” or the “Company”) announced that it has completed the two previously-announced workovers at the Etame field offshore Gabon and added a total of approximately 1,050 gross barrels of crude oil per day (“BOPD”), (540 net BOPD to VAALCO).

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) held the Second High-Level Meeting of the OPEC-GECF Energy Dialogue, hosted by the GECF, on 27 October 2021, via videoconference.