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The extensive modification and life extension work on the Aframax tanker will include the provision of a new hull coating, designed to make the FSO’s performance reliable for uninterrupted service for the next 20 years for offshore operation.

Ocean Geo Solutions’ current workforce, including geophysicists, cartographers and support staff will continue to operate out of its Houston office.

The new company will be known as HMH, and Baker Hughes and Akastor will own equal equity.

Shell's remaining assets in the Mars corridor in the Gulf of Mexico, Mars and Ursa, remain shut in.

Petrobras' share of production from the fields in the first half of 2021 was 11.3 thousand boe/d.

Operations included removing the 1280 metric t topside and the 3019 metric t jacket before transportation to the AF Environmental Base in Norway for recycling and reuse.

The collaboration initiative will aim to enable faster, lower cost validation and qualification of new technologies to deliver future well P&A programmes or campaigns.

Varying in duration from 18 months to 3 years, the contracts have a combined high six-figure value.

SPIE Oil & Gas Services will provide Process Automation Systems integration services for its subsea gas compression system for the Jansz-Io field, offshore Western Australia.

The company has signed deals including a 12-month production chemistry agreement with a North Sea FPSO operator worth a seven-figure sum, a chemical testing project for Vedanta (Cairn India) in India and a water injectivity study for SNEPCO, the operating arm of Shell in Nigeria.