RigQuip Drilling Services has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Zamil Shipyards to open a base in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The collaboration will offer both companies’ clients drilling equipment inspection and service, combined with berthing and full maintenance, repair, and operating shipyard services.

The Centre of Decommissioning Australia (CODA) has officially launched, heralding a much-needed collaborative effort to address the challenges and maximize the opportunities of decommissioning Australia’s aging oil and gas infrastructure.

Siemens Energy was awarded a topside EPC contract by MISC Berhad for eight complete topside modules that will provide sustainable, efficient, and environmentally friendly power generation, transmission, and distribution, as well as gas processing and compression aboard an FPSO that will operate offshore South America starting in 2024.

A new partnership between Ashtead Technology and Ocean Atlantic Petroleum SA (OAP), has successfully executed its first marine services project in West Africa and has received award for further work.

Equinor and partners Vår Energi, Idemitsu Petroleum and Neptune Energy have made the biggest discovery so far this year on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).

Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, has reached a significant technology milestone in pioneering a solution to overcome flexible pipe stress corrosion cracking (SCC) tendencies in high CO₂ content fields, such as those found in Brazil’s pre-salt offshore developments.  

Equinor, together with license partners Repsol Sinopec Brasil and Petrobras, have approved the development concept for BM-C-33, a gas/condensate field located in the Campos Basin pre-salt in Brazil.

Equinor has chosen Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland SE for removal, dismantling and recycling of the topsides and jackets of the Heimdal riser platform, Heimdal main platform and Veslefrikk A platform in the North Sea.

Latin America is well known as one of the world’s major oil & gas producing regions, especially in regards to crude oil production.

DORIS has been selected by BHP Petroleum (via its subsidiary BHP Billiton Petróleo Operaciones de Mexico, S. De R. L. De C.V.) to continue into the next phase of Trion’s engineering work, FEED (Front End Engineering and Design), for the SURF (Subsea Umbilicals Risers and Flowlines) scope of work.

There has been much talk about natural gas as a transition fuel, primarily in helping to lower emissions and pollution by displacing coal in power generation, but also in complementing intermittent renewables, and targeting the (blue) hydrogen economy in the longer term.

FutureOn, a global software company specializing in the energy sector and creator of the award-winning, SaaS field design applications, FieldAP, and its APIcentric collaboration platform, FieldTwin, has appointed Dynamic Cloud as its representative in Saudi Arabia and Andreas Gaarder as Vice President of EMEA. 

National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Erik Milito issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of the Interior announced NOIA as a participant during Thursday's federal oil and gas program review virtual forum:



Saipem has received from Qatargas a Letter of Award for a new contract worth over 1 billion USD and related to the North Field Production Sustainability Pipelines Project located offshore and onshore the North-East coast of the Qatar peninsula. 

OSSO, the specialist fluid temperature control and separation solutions provider, has been awarded a contract by global E&P independent operator, Neptune Energy, to deploy its high volume mud cooler and AutoCUL technology.

Sparrows Group, an engineering and maintenance services specialist for the global energy and industrial sectors, has secured one contract renewal and two extensions, worth a seven-figure sum, in Angola to support major operators in the deepwater region.