Drilling & production

Viking Venture has acquired 40% of the shares in 4Subsea AS.

Faroe Petroleum has announced that drilling has reached target depth on the Centrica-operated Butch South West exploration well.

RDS has been awarded a US$ 10 million contract to carry out FEED work on Statoil’s Johan Sverdrup development in the North Sea.

20 companies from across the FPSO supply chain identify challenges and solutions for this sector.

INA and Edison International have launched production on the North Adriatic field Izabela, after having resolved the last open issues.

Sakhalin Energy and Sovcomflot have signed contracts for the construction and operation of three icebreaking standby vessels.

Aker Solutions is transferring employees to a new subsea engineering hub, and is using the Aker Advantage recruitment agency to find jobs.

Shell Australia has launched a search and rescue helicopter service to support the offshore oil and gas industry in Broome.

Enegi has provided an update on Block 22/12b in the Central North Sea, which contains the Phoenix Discovery.

Serbia, Hungary and Bulgaria have committed to cooperation on economic development and energy security.

PetroNeft, an exploration and production company operating in Russia, has completed the farmout of Licence 61 to Oil India.

Woodside has finalised an agreement with Chariot Oil & Gas to farm-in to the prospective Doukkala Basin offshore Morocco.

Lundin has entered into an agreement to sell an additional 15% interest in PL359, which contains the Luno II discovery, to Wintershall.

AGR Software Solutions has been awarded a software contract with Malaysian oil and gas company Petronas.

Repsol has made a new hydrocarbons discovery in the Teak field, offshore Trinidad and Tobago.