Offshore & subsea - 14 May 2020

The guidelines aim to help companies understand good practice in how to identify, rank, approve and carry out opportunities to optimise production.

Herman Artinian, Upwing Energy, USA, reviews the company's subsurface compressor system.

Sergey Rekin and Albert Agishev, TMK, Russia, profiles the company's range of threaded connections.

Petter Johan Dramstad, Siemens, Norway, looks into a wet mate connector system designed to enable subsea power distribution.

Nicholas Rouge and Steffan Lindsø, Oceaneering, discuss the company's development of ROV vehicles and systems.

The company recently engineered a pair of ROV-deployable magnetic mounts to allow the loggers to be mounted directly onto subsea cross braces on a platform at two separate depths.

The 2020 Somali licensing round – launched virtually due to Covid-19 – features up to 7 blocks up for bidding.

In collaboration with Marathon Oil Corp and EG LNG, the country's Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons has awarded a contract for the development of a gas master plan to British company Gas Strategies.