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CEO Pat Lawless will be visiting Guyana as soon as current travel restrictions allow to work with existing clients and to introduce EM&I’s diverless, robotic, and digital asset integrity technologies.

The companies' 'Find Fix Confirm' service will aim to mitigate the costly consequences of sand control failure in wells.

The Bonga Main FPSO, which became operational in 2004, has a capacity of 225 000 bpd and weighs over 300 000 t, making it the largest asset in the world to be protected by a structural Digital Twin.

The 113 licences have been offered over 259 blocks or part-blocks to 65 companies.

Oil prices declined today as the market finally prices in the underlying uncertainty over the oil demand’s recovery, Iraq’s cuts compliance and the additional effect of Covid-19 on the economy as a whole.

The TCP jumpers are planned for delivery later this year, and will be deployed in the Julimar field, located approximately 200 km offshore North Western Australia.

RockProp is a software product that delivers analysis for cuttings, logs and drilling data, developed by the Cuttings Alliance - a consortium of Stratagraph, CoreSpec Alliance and PetroScale Reservoir Solutions.

The contract with an unnamed UK oil and gas operator, worth an annual six figure sum, has two additional one-year extension options.

The deal will see the Blackford Dolphin rig utilised in Mexico for the duration of the work, which is expected to last around 15 months.

EM&I have strengthened their engineering team by promoting two of their experienced senior staff to the key roles of Chief Engineer and Deputy Chief Engineer.