
Equinor has awarded contracts for concept studies to progress the Wisting project development, in the Barents Sea, towards a final concept select decision.

LOC Group has been awarded new contracts with SBM Offshore to act as Marine Warranty Surveyor on two of its FPSO projects.

Jadestone Energy has settled a dispute with Teikoku Oil, a subsidiary of Japan’s Inpex Corporation, in respect of Block 05-1 PSC, located offshore Vietnam.

Zentech has been hired by BW Energy to be part of the process which will see BW’s newly acquired jack-up rig converted into an offshore installation.

Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP has made a minor gas and oil discovery in the Norwegian Sea.

A joint venture work between KBR and Socar, which is undertaking the engineering design phase of the Azeri Central East platform, is now nearing completion.

Seismic exploration company Shearwater GeoServices has won a ‘large’ towed streamer 3D acquisition and fast track processing project from Total E&P Senegal. The exploration survey covers 5,000 square kilometres in the UDO Block Exploration area, offshore Senegal. For the purpose of the data acquisit

Oil major ConocoPhillips has made a gas discovery southwest of the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea.

Maersk Drilling has secured a contract from Brunei Shell Petroleum for the drillship Maersk Viking to drill one well offshore Brunei Darussalam.

A joint venture between Ocyan and Altera has been awarded a contract by Karoon for the FPSO Cidade de Itajaí operating on the Baúna field off Brazil.

McDermott has been awarded a contract to provide FEED services for the Inpex-operated Ichthys liquified natural gas field development in Australia.

Heerema Marine Contractors’ heavy lift vessel Aegir has completed the installation of North Oil Company’s Al-Shaheen Gallaf 1 Project offshore Qatar.

Seabed seismic player Magseis Fairfield has returned to profit in Q3 2020 despite major revenue drop against the prior-year quarter. The Oslo-listed company generated Q3 2020 revenue of $47 million, down from $134 million same time last year. Revenue was up from Q2 2020 revenue of $45 million. The y

Beach Energy has made a gas discovery at Enterprise 1 in licence VIC/P42(V) in the nearshore Victorian Otway Basin, Australia.