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July 24, 2025
AquaTerra Group been awarded two separate contracts with bp and Ithaca Energy to support a number of their North Sea assets. A three-year contract will see AquaTerra providing specialist access and access led maintenance services across bp’s North Sea portfolio.
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July 22, 2025
SLB will deploy its Sequestri™ carbon storage solutions portfolio to construct six carbon storage wells in the North Sea for the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), an incorporated joint venture between bp, Equinor and TotalEnergies.
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July 21, 2025
Vår Energi has made a commercial gas and condensate discovery in the Vidsyn exploration well in the Norwegian Sea. The discovery was made on the Vidsyn ridge, which has the potential to hold up to 100 MMboe gross, Vår Energi stated.
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July 17, 2025
Eni SpA’s deal to sell half of its carbon capture and storage unit to BlackRock Inc.’s Global Infrastructure Partners will likely value the business at around $1.2 billion (€1 billion), according to people familiar with the matter.
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July 17, 2025
Subsea7 has been awarded a large contract by Equinor's Fram Sør development. The project work scope covers EPCI of subsea structures and flowlines including 53 km of production, gas lift and water injection lines.
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July 17, 2025
EnerMech has been awarded a two-year crane operations & maintenance (O&M) contract extension to continue supporting a North Sea operator.
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July 15, 2025
TechnipFMC has secured a significant integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation (iEPCI™) contract by Equinor for its Heidrun extension project in the Norwegian North Sea.
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July 11, 2025
bp Plc said it expects to report rising production and a strong result from its oil trading business for the second quarter, offering a boost for the energy major struggling to reverse years of underperformance.
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July 07, 2025
bp Plc has appointed Simon Henry, a longtime Shell veteran, to its board of directors as the UK energy giant seeks to expand its oil and gas expertise. Henry left Shell in 2017 after 35 years during which he held the role of chief financial officer and board member.
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July 07, 2025
Draeger Marine & Offshore (DMO) has supplied equipment to support the UK’s first CO2 injection test for carbon capture and storage (CCS). The gas monitoring equipment is being used to ensure safe operations aboard Petrodec’s ERDA rig in the North Sea.
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July 02, 2025
Germany has given the green light for drilling as much as 13 billion cubic meters (Bbcm) of natural gas at a protected marine site in the North Sea in a controversial step to bolster energy security following the Russia-Ukraine war and subsequent energy crisis.
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July 02, 2025
HCLTech and Equinor have expanded their IT collaboration to support the next phase of Equinor’s digital transformation. This expanded relationship will cover Equinor’s IT landscape across several key strategic areas.
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July 02, 2025
DNO ASA entered into an offtake agreement with France’s ENGIE SA for DNO’s Norwegian gas production and secured a related offtake financing facility with a major U.S. bank for up to $500 million.
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July 01, 2025
Equinor and Aker BP are investing NOK 13 billion (~$1.29 billion USD) in the third phase of Johan Sverdrup, one of the world’s most carbon-efficient oil fields. New subsea infrastructure will increase recovery by 40–50 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe).
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June 26, 2025
Equinor and its Fram partners will invest more than $2 billion (NOK 21 billion) in a new subsea development, Equinor announced Thursday. The Fram Sør project is a combined development of several discoveries that will export oil and gas via Troll C in the North Sea. Recoverable volumes are estimated at 116 MMboe, and production is scheduled to start at the end of 2029.
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June 25, 2025
The Forum Energy Technologies (FET) Subsea product line has secured a contract to provide two work class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to CCC Underwater Engineering (CCC UE), the UAE-based offshore construction organization.
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June 24, 2025
Øgreid AS has entered an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Ramco Norway from the UK-based company Ramco Pipetech Holdings Ltd. Ramco is an expert in the care and maintenance of Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG).
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June 24, 2025
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called his government’s 10-year industrial strategy “a turning point” for the nation’s economy, but for an oil and gas lobby the plan must include tax reform for North Sea energy producers.
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June 23, 2025
ROSEN UK has secured a major contract to provide design verification and subsea engineering support for one of the UK’s most significant carbon capture projects. As part of this contract, ROSEN will conduct comprehensive design verification of the project’s CO₂ transportation pipelines.
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June 23, 2025
Mermaid Subsea Services (UK) has successfully completed a complex wellhead severance project in the Southern North Sea. Previous efforts to remove the target well were unsuccessful, meaning Mermaid had to use dedicated precision subsea tooling and expert project execution to sever and recover the well conductor.
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June 19, 2025
John Crane, a global expert in rotating equipment solutions, has launched its Type 93AX Coaxial Separation Seal – a dry gas sealing solution engineered to help customers reduce emissions, improve equipment reliability, and lower operational costs.
