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Brazil is embarking on a 3-year round of bid sales offering international oil companies multibillion barrel prospects with better contract terms.

AUVs aren’t limited to inspections and pipeline surveys. Deployment of a flotilla of AUVs to work on a project, and the communication among them, may someday lead to a subsea Internet of Things.

Innovations characterize the deepwater Moho Nord field development, recently brought on stream by Total in the Republic of Congo, and the project creates significant value for the country.

A panel of executives, project managers, and government regulators involved with the Mad Dog project in the US Gulf of Mexico discuss the importance of collaboration and strategic alignment in project development.

OriginClear agreed to a sales licensing deal for use of its Electro Water Separation technology at a Sinopec-operated shale gas site.

Chinese scientists have proposed the world's first underwater magnetic levitation train, theoretically capable of 2000 km/hr, in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province. The 10-km long vacuum tunnel would float in water, which would bear 90% of its weight. China Railway Tunnel Survey and Design Institute, a subsidiary of China Railway Group, is reported to have completed prelimin…

Canada will become the world’s fifth-largest producer of crude oil in 2017. The solvent-assisted-SAGD poses the largest advancement in production techniques in the oil sands, and if scaled up, could further reduce extraction costs.

Saskia Rijtema was named chief operating officer (COO) of Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) effective 1 June. Rijtema has served as HMC's senior vice president of technolgy and innovation since January 2016, where she was responsible for engineering projects, tenders, and assets. She started her career at HMC in October 1997 and has since worked in various departments …

Wood Group appointed Andrew Stewart as chief executive officer (CEO) of its Asset Life Cycle Solutions business in the western region. Stewart was most recently president of Wood Group's Construction, Maintenance, and Operations business, and he previously led the company's brownfield production services operations in Australia and Asia Pacific. Stewart holds a bachel…

An advisor at Schlumberger discusses the company’s work in examining the effect of perforations on hydraulic fracture initiation.

Argentina President Mauricio Macri visited with oil and gas companies in Houston to emphasize that his country’s reforms are making it increasingly attractive for upstream investing.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry became the latest senior member of President Donald Trump’s administration to publicly advocate for staying in the Paris climate accord, saying the US should renegotiate the deal and push European nations to take on a larger share of emissions reductions.