bp announced a significant milestone with the safe start-up of the Manuel project in the US Gulf of Mexico, the fourth of five major projects expected to be delivered globally in 2021.

It exists in abundance on Earth and has even been found on other planets, including Mars, but this major force of life – methane – can also harm the environment when not contained appropriately.

In March of 2021, Archer Limited (Archer) again awarded Derrick and their distributor, Rotor Offshore, a shale shaker upgrade for an Equinor platform rig.

The registration for Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2021 is now live! The event, to be held on October 26 - 27 in Amsterdam RAI, the Netherlands, will attract thousands of offshore professionals and hundreds of exhibiting companies.

4Subsea has been awarded a three-year service agreement with Vår Energi to monitor and analyze wellhead integrity to ensure safe operations for the Balder Future drilling and completion operations. The SWIM™ service employs retrofittable subsea sensors to measure movement and strain on the wellhead. It applies advanced algorithms and machine learning combined with deep domain expertise to monitor fatigue damage accumulation, well support and structural integrity.

CGG has been awarded a major project by Lundin Energy Norway AS for the seismic imaging of an innovative simultaneous node and streamer 3D survey currently being acquired over a 3700 km2 area of the Nordkapp basin in the Barents Sea.

Conbit’s team recently installed three deck extensions and three modules that were located out of the reach of a crane at the Anoa Field in Indonesia.

The organizers of SPE Offshore Europe 2021 have announced that the show’s face-to-face event is moving to 1-4 February 2022 at P&J Live, Aberdeen and the conference will run virtually from 7-10 September 2021.

Vår Energi has confirmed discovery of oil and gas in the King and Prince exploration wells in the Balder area in the Southern North Sea.

DNV has been awarded a contract for the carbon capture and storage (CCS) pipeline materials study by Neptune Energy Netherlands to assess the fracture and suitability of offshore pipelines for re-use in CO2 transport.

Transocean Ltd. announces that the Transocean Barents was awarded a two-well contract in Norway with commencement expected in February 2022. The contract award is approximately 200 days in duration and adds an estimated $60 million in firm contract backlog.

Ace Oil Tools, a technology company known for its proprietary ‘ratcheting technology’, has launched its new Ace Control Line Clamp (ACLC) to the well construction market.

The prevailing industry downturn from COVID-19 has heightened the need for oil and gas companies to reduce operational costs by improving efficiency. Although classical computers are capable enough in delivering efficiency gains, quantum computers and their optimization algorithms could deliver these gains in a much shorter time, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

The development of subsea technology in the 1980s marked the beginning of a modern Norwegian industrial adventure which shaped us as a petroleum nation."

McDermott International, Ltd. has been selected by BHP to provide a marine installation campaign for the Shenzi Subsea Multiphase Pumping Project (SSMPP). The project is located approximately 138 miles (222 kilometers) offshore in the Gulf of Mexico at a water depth of 4,400 feet.

The Republic of Equatorial Guinea’s Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons HE Gabriel M. Obiang Lima in a meeting held today in Malabo announced his ministry’s withdrawal of this Year’s edition of Africa Oil Week, due to be held in Dubai.