Certificate of SEMS Compliance for Offshore Drilling at Tamar Field
DNV GL - Business Assurance USA, Inc. has issued to Noble Energy a certificate of compliance to the SEMS (Safety and Environmental Systems) standard...

Cluff Natural Resources Plc Acquisition of North Sea Licences

Consent for Drilling Operations Using Stena Don
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA)  has given Statoil consent to use the Stena Don mobile drilling facility for drilling, completion...

Baker Hughes Announces April 2016 Rig Counts
Weekly Rig Counts from Baker Hughes

BMT Delivers CFD Study for Oil Major to Calculate Current Coefficients
BMT Fluid Mechanics (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, the international design, engineering and risk management consultancy, has recently completed a comprehensive Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) study...

Bibby Offshore Awarded North Sea Contract
Contract Wins Strengthen Wood Group’s Middle East Presence
80:20 Awarded Multiple North Sea Contracts
Westcon Signs Subsea Deal with Statoil
Ninth Well Order Signed with Det norske
Wood Group Awarded Contract Across Shell’s North Sea...
Saipem Awarded New Contract for Shah Deniz Stage 2
Xodus Wins Framework Agreement for Engineering Studies and Verifications

Proposed Acquisition of Saft Group by Total
Total and Saft have announced that, following the signature of an agreement between the companies, Total filed a friendly tender offer on all of the issued and outstanding shares...

Forum Subsea Rentals Invests in Multi-Million Rental Order
New Facilities Enable New Automation and Welding Technologies
Sale of Petrobras Argentina
NDT Global Opens Two New Offices
Petrobra Sale of Distribution Assets in Chile
Bureau Veritas Acquires TMC Marine to Pursue External Growth Strategy

New energy business

DeepOcean Prepares T3200
DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd., a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, has announced that the company has placed a contract with subsea equipment manufacturer SMD...

Aqualis Offshore to Support Siemens Wind Power

Production

Oil and Natural Gas Production in April
Petrobras total oil and natural gas production in April amounted to 2.69 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), of which 2.50 million boe were produced in Brazil...

Production Increase at Prinos and Well PA-36 Spudded

Technology

CGG GeoSoftware Releases PowerLog 9.5 Petrophysical Software
CGG GeoSoftware has launched PowerLog 9.5, the new version of its flagship well log petrophysical analysis software...

GE Introduces New Ultrafiltration Membrane for Offshore Oil and...
Halliburton’s Landmark Introduces Latest Well Construction...
Emerson Introduces Hybrid Laser Analyser
Schlumberger Introduces Industry-First Microfluidic Analysis Technology

Shipping / Yard News

MacArtney Winch for Deployment from Vessels of Opportunity
CORMAC M4C is a customised version of the MacArtney CORMAC M modular winch series intended for use together with the dotOcean DensX sediment density profiler...

Major Size Reduction in the PureSOx U-Design
Fast Track Buoyancy Order
Damen Opens Office in the US

General News

Oil-Hungry Bacteria Could Clean Up the Next Big Oil Spill
Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have cracked the genetic code of the marine bacteria that helped “eat” the oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, information that could aid clean-up efforts for the next major spill...

Survey of Innovation in America’s Oil and Gas Sparks Discussion
ROCOL Makes Key Aberdeen Appointment
Seven New DNV GL Collaborative Projects in North America
Sailing into the Future
Using New DNV GL Recommended Practice to Cut Well P&A Costs

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