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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.

Equinor awarded a contract to Kaefer Energy AS for services within insulation, scaffolding, and surface treatment (ISO) on the Johan Sverdrup field. Awarded under an already existing framework agreement for operations, the contract has an estimated value of more than NOK 700 million. This includes both ordinary operations and maintenance work, and work associated with…

DOF Subsea has secured two contracts in Brazil. The first contract has been awarded by Sapura Energy do Brasil for a riser and umbilical installation on a floating storage and regasification unit, which will be used to supply national gas to a power plant owned by CELSE (Centrais Elétricas de Sergipe). This project will last for 20 days beginning in the last week of M…

Curtis G. Blount, SPE, senior fellow engineer-advisor for global wells technology at ConocoPhillips and former SPE Distinguished Lecturer, died 12 May in Katy, Texas. He made significant technical contributions to coiled tubing and well intervention research and applied technology development for more than 25 years. Blount began his career at Dresser Atlas in 1977. He…

Qatar Petroleum has awarded McDermott with the FEED contract for the offshore pipelines and topsides facilities of its North Field Expansion Project. The scope of the deal includes engineering design for eight unmanned wellhead platform topsides, four 38-in. trunk lines, and four 28-in. intrafield lines. It is expected to take 12 months to complete. McDermott had prev…

Eni appointed Alessandro Puliti chief upstream officer, effective 1 September. He will replace Antonio Vella, who will leave the company at the end of the year, after a career spanning over more than 30 years. Puliti joined Eni’s reservoir department in 1990. Since then, he has held positions of increasing responsibilities within the Upstream business, both in regiona…

Chevron Australia has awarded Wood with a new contract to provide subsea integration and flow assurance front-end engineering design (FEED) services for the Jansz-Io compression project offshore Western Australia. The one-year contract will be delivered by Wood’s Perth-based team.

Malaysian FPSO provider Yinson has secured a long-term contract extension through October 2022 with Nigerian company Addax Petroleum Development for its Adoon FPSO. The deal’s value is estimated to be $137.5 million. Yinson had previously won a one-month extension for the FPSO, which is moored at Block OML 123 offshore Nigeria, as it discussed the framework of a long-…

The 2019 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) will be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on 30 September – 2 October. The Opening General Session will focus on “Positively Impacting the World Through Responsible Energy Development.” The technical program includes 57 technical sessions and 12 special sessions on the latest technologies and best practices…