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Woodside has confirmed it is in discussions with BHP over a potential merger involving BHP’s entire petroleum business.
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Woodside has confirmed it is in discussions with BHP over a potential merger involving BHP’s entire petroleum business.

OEM Group has secured a seven-figure contract with PBS.

Brazil alone is expected to contribute approximately 23% or 1.3 million bbl/d of global crude oil and condensate production in 2025 from key offshore planned and announced projects that are expected to start operations between 2021 – 2025, according to GlobalData.

Huisman has announced the signing of a contract with DEME for the delivery of a lifting spreader and a set of adaptive damping tugger winches for DEME’s offshore installation vessel Orion.

Fugro has deployed its QuickVision technology as part a subsea installation programme for Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company.

The 23rd World Petroleum Congress Organizing Committee has announced the launch of the Innovation Zone, a captivating new feature on the exhibition floor of the Congress, which will take place in-person in Houston from 5 – 9 December 2021 at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

Over 35% of the acreage available in licensing rounds that are either open or scheduled to close in 2H21 are located in shallow water, while ultra-deep water and deepwater acreage account for 24% and 19%, respectively, according to GlobalData.

C-Innovation, LLC has been awarded a multi-year contract for riserless light well intervention services with a major operator in the Gulf of Mexico.

Safety io, a software subsidiary of MSA – The Safety Company, has recently achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification for its information security management practices.

New Crew Hawk Analytics from Salunda Ltd provides faster, easier and more accurate decision-making capabilities in the offshore oil and gas sector, delivering enhanced levels of safety protection and management of people and assets in the drilling Red Zone.

Xodus has been awarded the conceptual engineering design contract for PETRONAS’ first complete carbon, capture and storage project, offshore Malaysia.

Caley Ocean Systems and IMES International have merged with Pryme Group to create a business with broad capabilities supplying products, services and solutions to the energy, defence and other industrial markets.