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Fairfield-Maxwell Ltd. has announced that Charles (Chuck) Davison, Jr., has been named the Chairman of the Board of its wholly owned subsidiary, Fairfield Geotechnologies.

The engineering and technology group, which announced its launch last month is rolling out an ambitious and transformative strategy to meet the immediate and long-term strategic value-add needs of their clients.

The appointments will enable the company to grow its market share across the regions.

Terry Childs, Head of Riglogix, provides an overview of the Gulf of Mexico jackup market.

Wood has further extended the SURF IM Network, which aims to share experience and lessons learned from subsea integrity and reliability issues and is supported by 10 major global operators.

The vessel is sailing to Flushing (Vlissingen), the Netherlands to mobilise for its first assignments. One of its first duties includes a decommissioning project in the North Sea.

Growing list of recent projects delivered on target.

Vantage will perform the P&A services using HydraWell´s high pressure PWC® (Perforate, Wash and Cement) jetting system which can install a rock-to-rock barrier in less than two days.

Petroteq management is confident that operational costs and related discounts will be much lower than the discount on Canada's heavy crude, which reached a nearly five-year high last week.

United Oil & Gas Plc has announced that the fast track version of the recently acquired 3D seismic dataset over the Walton-Morant licence, offshore Jamaica, has been delivered by the operator, Tullow Jamaica Ltd.