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The contract will create two new roles (a customer support engineer and a technical advisor) and will also increase the service engineer team by 10%.

UTEC, a global surveying company in subsea services group Acteon, has been awarded a subcontract by McDermott International for a series of survey work scopes offshore eastern India.

The grant from the Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) will be used to further develop LUX’s CoMic™ technology to provide the industry’s first corrosion inhibitor micelle detection tool with automated data analysis capability.

Well construction specialist, DeltaTek Global, has announced the key appointment of Chris Johnstone as Operations Supervisor.

The company has signed a service agreement for the provision of an advanced downhole perforation technology with a proven record of significantly enhancing recovery rates.

The company has announced that drilling at Indico-1 well on the CPO-5 block has reached target depth of 10 604 ft measured depth and has encountered the targeted Lower Sands of the Une formation.

The company has announced that following receipt of necessary approvals, the sale of its interests in the Babbage Area to Verus Petroleum SNS Ltd has now completed.

Afoxé discovery is a further confirmation of the oil exploration potential still held in southern part of Block 15/06, previously considered mainly gas prone.

The company has signed an agreement to dispose of the FSO Belokamenka for recycling in compliance with the Hong Kong Convention.

The integrated business, 'Neptune Energy Norge', will be amongst the top five independent producers on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and will become the operator of the Fenja field development project in the Norwegian Sea.