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The technical advisor to the sector sees fossil fuel production needing to become more socially conscious and cost-competitive against an increasing share of renewables in the global energy mix in the coming decades.

The award will see the firm continuing to support all of the operator’s North Sea facilities, including the Lomond, Everest and Armada installations.

The company has announced that the L53-DD1 exploration well encountered an interpreted, combined 26 m of net oil pay.

The company received a notification of award for orders valued at more than NOK 1.7 billion from the China National Offshore Oil Corporation to provide the subsea production system and umbilicals for the Lingshui 17-2 gas field.

London-based Blue Water Energy, Warburg Pincus LLC and the IFC are jointly providing funding to support Apex’s investment programme, including drilling, asset acquisitions and corporate transactions.

The Samo-1 well will be drilled in 1000 m of water depth to a planned depth of approximately 3100 m.

The company has announced that its deepwater drillship the Pacific Bora has been awarded a contract by Nigerian Agip Exploration Limited (a subsidiary of Eni SpA) for drilling operations in Nigeria.

The company has been awarded a contract by an affiliate of ExxonMobil Corporation for the engineering of the subsea system for the proposed Liza Phase 2 project.

Following over a year of development, BiSN’s award-winning Wel-lok M2M technology was deployed via E-line in collaboration with Altus Intervention in AkerBP’s Valhall A-30 well in the Norwegian North Sea.

Rowan Norway Limited has been awarded a contract for drilling two wells at the Gudrun field by use of the Rowan Stavanger jack-up rig. The rig has furthermore been awarded five options for drilling of single wells.