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Some 3,000 people and counting intrigued by UK oil and gas data have signed up for access to the country’s new National Data Repository. What motivated the OGA to make the data available to the public, and what can the public do with the data?

Vast amounts of offshore and onshore reliability data will be made available as the project by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate provides access to its now-digital data in an effort to improve accessibility and efficiency for oil and gas industry reliability data.

Santos signed a binding letter of intent to acquire a 14.3% interest in Petroleum Retention License 3, which contains the P’nyang natural gas field in Papua New Guinea.

Microsoft  announced three new services that aim to simplify the process of machine learning—an interface for a tool that automates the process of creating models; a new no-code visual interface for building, training, and deploying models; and hosted Jupyter-style notebooks for advanced users.

The report details information obtained during the EPA’s outreach to stakeholders. The information in the report will help the EPA determine whether any future actions are appropriate to address oil and gas extraction waste water further.

A parade of hundreds of Waorani, members of an indigenous nation in a remote part of the Amazon, marched triumphantly through the streets of Puyo, Ecuador, celebrating a court ruling that held that the Ecuadorian government could not auction off their land for oil exploration without their consent.

Analytics, sensors, and robots are changing the way one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies does business. Underpinning all the new technology though is a shift in how BP thinks, and what it means to be a supermajor in the 21st century.

Petrobras has awarded McDermott with a significant contract for the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of subsea rises and flowlines for the first phase of the Sepia field, located 174 mi from the Rio de Janeiro coastline in Brazil. The project scope includes detailed engineering, surveys, supply, installation, and pre-commissioning of rigid pipe…

The Colorado Petroleum Council named Lynn Granger executive director. She joins the council, a division of the American Petroleum Institute, from Colorado Concern, a business advocacy association in the Mountain West, where she served as chief operating officer. Previously, she was the communications director for the Colorado Department of Revenue. Granger began her c…

Oceaneering International appointed Charles (Chuck) W. Davison Jr. to succeed Clyde W. Hewlett as chief operating officer effective upon Davison's commencement of employment with Oceaneering, which is expected on or about 3 June. Oceaneering intends that Davison will have worldwide responsibility for Oceaneering's energy-related segments. Davison has served as CEO and…

Oceaneering awarded Deepsea Technologies a contract to provide engineering, procurement, and construction of equipment to be used on drillpipe risers offshore Brazil, expected to deploy by Q4 this year. The contract is supported by project management, engineering, procurement, and QHSE efforts from both Houston and Brazil operations.

The escalation of the trade war between the US and China could jeopardize several LNG megaprojects that are awaiting final approval.