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Equinor today signed contracts totaling around $359 million (NOK 3.3 billion) for the Hywind Tampen wind farm development. The contracts have been awarded to Kværner AS, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy AS, JDR Cable System Ltd, and Subsea 7 AS.

Schlumberger announced an award to OneSubsea by A/S Norske Shell of a frame agreement for an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract for the supply of a subsea multiphase compression system for the Ormen Lange Field in the Norwegian Sea.

JDR appointed Jon Vail strategy director and a member of the board. He will be responsible for developing the company's overall strategy for future growth and will champion continuous business improvement. He previously held the role of UK engineering director at BICC Cables and senior roles at Ducab HV Cable Systems, most recently as CEO. He holds an MBA from Henley …

Tidewater elected Larry T. Rigdon chairman of the board effective 28 October. Rigdon replaces Thomas R. Bates Jr., who recently resigned from the board.

Weatherford International has signed two contracts totaling $67.4 million for drilling services with two major operators in Russia.

First oil from the 120,000-B/D Liza Destiny floating production, storage, and offloading vessel, which arrived on the block in late August, is targeted for December.

A slew of data science jargon is flooding the industry, and one impediment to the digital transformation is confusion over associated terminology. The Society of Petroleum Engineers is beginning to make a concerted effort to help demystify the buzzwords, and this article kick starts that effort.

When Google claimed quantum supremacy, IBM challenged it. Nonetheless, the development is really important for the future of artificial intelligence.

In 2018, Murphy Oil launched an initiative to open-source all internal live streaming data to its engineers. The process led it to implement a global data historian and a corresponding visualization tool. The insights provided are shaping the future of operations at the company.

Physicists have been talking about the power of quantum computing for more than 30 years, but the questions have always been: Will it ever do something useful, and is it worth investing in?

Service firms are diversifying their portfolios, in part driven by large-scale budget cuts among operators since the industrywide downturn.

The FPSO, MODEC's largest size of "gas FPSO" to date, will be the first application of the contractor’s M350 Hull, a next-generation newbuilt hull for FPSOs.