Noble and Shell Amend Drilling Contracts on Three Ultra-Deepwater Drillships
Noble Corporation plc has announced that the company and certain subsidiaries of Royal Dutch Shell plc have agreed to amend the existing long-term contracts on three ultra-deepwater drillships...

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

Deepocean Awarded Subsea Survey and Light Construction Contract from Statoil
DeepOcean AS, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV (DeepOcean), has announced the award from Statoil for Survey and Light Construction services in 2017...

RINA Services Awarded Two Major Contracts for Indonesian Gas
Giant 287-Tonne Substation Exported from Teesside
Global Marine Announces Offshore Oil Field Communications...
Teesside Business Secures its Largest Value Contract to Date
Multi-Million Dollar Contract Wins for IVB
CGG Achieves Near Real-Time Imaging for Offshore Morocco Survey

Aker Solutions Completes Acquisition of Majority Stake in Brazil’s C.S.E.
Aker Solutions has completed the acquisition of 70% of Brazilian C.S.E. Mecânica e Instrumentação Ltda...

Lokring Northern’s Growth Plans
EPI Group Acquires P.D.F. Limited
CMP Products Targets Russian Growth with Moscow Office
Exova Acquires Insight NDT
Wood Group and Heerema Fabrication Group sign Memorandum of Understanding

New energy business

Aqualis Offshore Secures Danish Wind Farm Work
Offshore marine and engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has been contracted by A2SEA to perform engineering consultancy services for its offshore wind farm installation work...

Suez and Total Partner to Recycle Cooking Oil into Biofuel

Production

S&P Global Platts Survey – OPEC Crude Oil Production Hit New Record in November
Oil production from OPEC for November rose for the sixth straight month to a record 33.86 million barrels per day (b/d), according to a survey of OPEC and oil industry officials by S&P Global Platts...

Recent OPEC Agreement Reflected in US EIA Forecast
Faroe Completes Norwegian Production Acquisition

Technology

DSME and Kongsberg Maritime Ink New Joint Development Agreement
DSME and Kongsberg Maritime have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) for a new LNG FSRU regasification control system...

First ESP Live Well Cable Deployment, Operation and Retrieval
FUELSTAT Compliant with New ASTM Standard D8070
New Robust Connector to Meet Ever Higher Temperature and...
Yokogawa Releases ISA100 Wireless™-Based Field Wireless...
Emerson Releases Major Updates to Seismic Reservoir Modelling and Simulation Software

Shipping / Yard News

Norsafe’s Experience in the Polar Code Pays Off
The International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters or The Polar Code as it is more familiarly known, is expected to take effect on 1st January 2017...

ClassNK Releases Mobile App for PSC Inspection
Cobham and SpeedCast Forge Strategic Partnership to Grow...
Acoustic Emission Technology Enables Improved Crack, ...
Rolls-Royce Power Systems and ZF Collaborate on Marine Propulsion Systems

General News

Global Oil and Gas Exploration Likely to Return to Profitability in 2017
A new study by Wood Mackenzie on what to expect from global oil and gas exploration in the year ahead Global Exploration: What to look for in 2017 shows...

Aquablast Ltd. Installs Jet Edge 5-Axis Waterjet System at its UK...
New Head of Asia Pacific at Hansa Heavy Lift Appointed
EyeCGas Verified as Compliant with New EPA OOOOa Regulation
N-Sea and University of Strathclyde Collaborate for Innovative Subsea Project

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