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The investment from bp Ventures, Woodside Energy and Blue Ocean Monitoring will be deployed to continue the development of a fully integrated system which uses long endurance self-repositioning autonomous underwater nodes to conduct offshore seismic surveys.

KCA Deutag has been awarded contracts worth more than US$150 million in Oman.

Petrobras has awarded DOF Subsea a three year MPSV vessel contract for the Mero field.

DNV GL performed remote safety inspections of one box boom pedestal crane on the Valhall Flank West and two knuckle boom cranes on the Skarv field, both as part of annual surveys.

Penspen will develop crude receiving facilities for unloading the Upper Zakhum field and Non-System crudes at Jebel Dhana from tankers.

The pilot project will aim to predict and analyse fatigue in the hull of a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the North Sea.

Neptune Energy has announced it will adopt Halliburton’s DecisionSpace 365 well construction suite of cloud applications.

An agreement was reached in a meeting last Friday between Norwegian Oil and Gas and the Norwegian Organisation of Managers and Executives (Lederne).

Production has begun from the Block 61 Phase 2 Ghazeer gas field in Oman, 33 months after the development was approved.

The result of the collaboration will be published in a joint study on net zero upstream facilities before the end of the year.