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Within the partnership, Fotech Solutions will contribute DAS measurement solutions and Sercel will contribute downhole seismic tools & software for subsurface seismic operations.

The specialist well abandonment company has secured a three-year framework agreement with TAQA Bratani Limited for the provision of intervention management services for all their North Sea assets.

The company’s ERRV Ocean Troll, will provide Emergency Response and Rescue services for Maersk Oil’s Culzean project in the central North Sea. The Charter is the first Fire Fighting Class II (Fi-Fi II) ERRV to have operated in the UK sector.

MAN Diesel & Turbo has won an order for nine compressor trains from the state-owned Kuwait Oil Co.

Drilling Systems has announced the release of its new ‘On the Rig’ (OTR) portable work-site simulator package.

The West Virginia Department of Commerce has announced China Energy Investment Corporation Limited’s plan to invest US$83.7 billion in shale gas development and chemical manufacturing projects in West Virginia.

Block 49 is an onshore block that covers a prospective but still rather unexplored area in the South West of the Sultanate bordering the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

LUX Assure, specialist in chemical monitoring and management for the global oil and gas sector, has strengthened its team with two important new appointments.

Former Press & Journal editor, Damian Bates, will be tasked with providing guidance and support to the senior management team on government policy and political relations via his newly formed consultancy Abraitis and Co.

The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, a partnership between Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh, will lead a consortium that includes Imperial College London, the University of Oxford and the University of Liverpool.