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$With a sleeve installed in the completion that can be opened and closed down in the well, it is now possible to fracture several zones with only on trip into the well$	Aker BP first ever to use new well stimulation method offshore 10th December 2019 The method significantly reduces the cost of the well because less time is needed for use of vessels and equipment.“The traditional method takes two-three days to fracture a single zone of the...
	Ocean Infinity to perform 2D High-Resolution seismic survey in Angola 10th December 2019 During the project, Ocean Infinity will be deploying their state-of-the-art technology to conduct 2D Ultra High-Resolution Seismic surveys and Seabed Soil Sampling in Block 32 and Block 17.Ocean Infinity...
	RUD ROV hooks for subsea installations 6th December 2019 First, Oceaneering used the hooks to install long baseline (LBL) transponder frames, weighing 2,000 lbs. each, at specified subsea locations. Oceaneering was contracted by a major offshore oil and gas...
	DeepOcean awarded contract for IMR services by Equinor in 2020 6th December 2019 The contract has a duration of up to 9 months work offshore, using the vessel Normand Ocean. The work comprises subsea ROV operations covering inspection, maintenance and repair activities on Equinor’...
	Zenith kick starts SDX Morocco contract 21st November 2019 The contract, with SDX Energy Morocco, is a 12-well onshore drilling project in the north of the country, near the city of Kenitra, which is 50 miles north of Rabat.Zenith is project managing the drilling...
	Enpro Subsea completes latest subsea enhanced production campaign in Ghana 19th November 2019 Operations were conducted from a single Multi Services Support Vessel, which was mobilised out of Takoradi in Ghana. The first of the two campaigns saw Enpro’s Flow Intervention Services (FIS)...
	i-Tech 7 strengthens UWILD track record in North Sea 13th November 2019 Borr Drilling required a hull inspection for its Paragon MSS-1 mid-water semi-submersible, to meet ABS intermediate survey certification requirements. In place of conventional methods using divers, i-Tech 7...
	Wintershall Dea selects Eigen Ingenuity for Realtime Information Visualisation pilot 13th November 2019 Offshore Oil and Gas digitalisation software provider and systems integrator, Eigen, has been selected by Wintershall Dea to pilot a digitalisation implementation on Wintershall Dea’s Brage...
	ADNOC and Total innovate seismic acquisition with unmanned drones and vehicle 13th November 2019 This pilot project, performed with Total’s Multiphysics Exploration Technology Integrated System (METIS®), uses autonomous drones and a ground vehicle to drop off and retrieve seismic sensors...
	Innovo and Sparrows deliver West African flexible lay spread 8th November 2019 The Innodrive RDS is one of the most powerful and reliable electrical reel drive systems in the world. It is designed by Innovo for laying or retrieving flexible flowlines, umbilicals, mooring wires and...