Friday, November 20, 2009 - Fluor has entered into a formal alliance with Offshore Oil Engineering Corporation Ltd. in the pursuit of large offshore oil & gas projects in the Asia-Pacific region including China and Australia.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - GE Oil & Gas has enhanced its European drilling and production equipment repair, maintenance and refurbishment capabilities with the official opening of a new Global Services facility in Montrose, Scotland.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Enventure Global Technology has enhanced its online technical library, a tool that shares the company's vast expandables knowledge.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - EnerMech has invested in specialist equipment to boost the company's hydraulics business line. The CNC machining facility allows the Aberdeen-based company to manufacture equipment parts which previously had to be sourced through suppliers.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Lukoil's Board of Directors has approved a strategic development plan for 2010-2019, which includes growing hydrocarbon production and the creation of a spin-off of assets from the E&P business segment into a specialized company.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Marine Technology Solutions providers Nautronix have joined key industry players by becoming the latest members of the National Subsea Research Institute (NSRI).

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Schlumberger's subsea electronic control module has passed the historical milestone of more than a quarter million operational hours in the field with 100% reliability.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Two of Bibby Offshore's dive support vessels achieved significant milestones this month. The DSV Bibby Aquamarine and DSV Bibby Sapphire completed one million man hours and one & half million man hours respectively without a lost time injury.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Jindal Drilling & Industries has been awarded a firm order for charter hire of the Noble Ed Holt jackup drilling rig from ONGC Ltd. for a period of five years.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Leading flexible pipe specialist flexlife has launched a prototype for a new spin-off from its award-winning patented scanning technology.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Dockwise announced eight new near-term contract wins awarded to its subsidiary, Dockwise Shipping, for the transportation of modules, vessels and jack up drilling rigs.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - "Through a combination of well-executed exploration and selective acquisitions, Marathon has tripled the Company's resource base since 2001, with a resource life approaching 40 years," said David E. Roberts, Jr., executive vice president, Upstream.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract from Reliance Industries to provide support services to the MA-D6 and KG-D6 field developments located in Bay of Bengal, India.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Blake International USA Rigs has launched a new "Crane Rental Division" within the company. The Crane Division consists of 15 self erecting offshore platform cranes with sizes ranging from 15 tons to 37.5 tons.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Cirrus Energy announced that Mr. Willem Korndorffer has resigned from his position on the Board of Directors of the Corporation effective November 13, 2009 to pursue other ventures.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Nautilus Rigging has signed an international distribution agreement just two months after launching its groundbreaking lifting hooks range at Offshore Europe 2009.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Northern Offshore's president and CEO, Marion Woolie, has resigned from the company effective immediately.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Statoil announced that the Deferred Prosecution Agreement the company entered into as a part of the settlement of the Horton case, has expired as scheduled.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Stuart Heggie will play a major role in synchronizing overseas operations at OCHL. Initially, his role will focus on the group's expansion plans in the North Sea and South East Asian markets.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Tendeka has announced its second acquisition in as many months with the addition of FloQuest to its growing portfolio. Five companies now operate in the Tendeka family, which was launched in April 2009.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - CapRock Communications announced a long-term agreement with Statoil to provide satellite communications to a new drillship.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Bisso Marine has promoted Glenn Posik to general manager of Diving and Subsea Services.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Andy Wojtaszczyk has joined Bisso Marine as Subsea Services project manager, managing saturation diving and ROV operations.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Halliburton has been awarded a three-year contract, with an estimated value of $122 million by Total to provide drilling and completion fluid solutions in Indonesia.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Fluor worked with Coreworx to develop the next generation product to improve upon their existing proven software, IMpart, and become an integrated part of the Fluor global project template.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Palantir Solutions has created unique processes which provide a previously unattainable level of rapid insight into the value of E&P assets.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Petrobras carved out the sixth spot in the top 250 Global Energy Company ranking posted by Platts, one of the leading global providers of information about energy and commodities.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Skymira's latest solution provides field technicians with real-time operating status of remotely located equipment under their care while operating in some of the roughest terrain imaginable.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Technip and SaudConsult have signed in Paris a memorandum of understanding to set up a 50/50 joint venture company aimed at developing a new engineering center in Saudi Arabia.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - The world's leading provider of subsea training, The Underwater Centre has become a preferred supplier for a national body which provides specialist careers and resettlement advice to ex-Forces personnel.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Mainland Resources announced the closing and receipt of $3.2 million to complete the purchase of the 8,225 net oil and gas lease acres covering the Mississippi Project and to pay off their previous bridge loan with Guggenheim.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Heiko Oppermann is set to head RWE Dea's newly established branch office in Turkmenistan, based in Ashgabat.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Friendly Energy has completed the final requirements to acquire its operator's license and has passed the final site inspection for the Panther Creek Prospect.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - DOF Subsea Canada has completed survey services in the Laurentian Basin south of Newfoundland, Canada.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - According to Edutech, Bahrain is poised to become a major energy hub, with gas production set to climb to 15 billion cu. meters by 2016.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Northern Offshore's subsidiary, Energy Offshore Ltd, was awarded an extension of its ongoing drilling services contract with Maersk Oil and Gas for the jackup Energy Endeavour.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Oilfield Services companies, Alliance Energy Services and Marquis Fluids, have merged their companies to form Marquis Alliance Energy Group Inc.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - OMNI Energy Services has successfully completed the initial offshore retrofit and installation of three of its I.M.P.A.C.T. separator cleaning tools.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - PDVSA has formally assumed exclusive operational control over the assets of Tavsa, Tubos de Acero de Venezuela S.A. ("Tavsa").

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - The Board of ENOC has confirmed to the Independent Committee of Dragon Oil that the price of 455 pence per Dragon Oil Share is final and will not be increased.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - BP and Dolphin Drilling have failed to resolve a contractual dispute regarding the Byford Dolphin semisub, and the contract will now be considered by an English court.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - BJ Services Company announced that it has opened two new operations bases in Canada. The new bases are dedicated to delivering process and pipeline services to customers throughout Canada.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - A new contract will see TSMarine Subsea prepare a program to abandon two Category One suspended subsea wells in block 25 of the Moray Firth region for Petro-Canada UK.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - CNPC, China's leading oil and gas producer, has 81 overseas oil and gas cooperative projects in hand.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Gerald (Jerry) Schiefelbein has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Ivanhoe Energy to succeed retiring Chief Financial Officer Gordon Lancaster.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - NuCoastal has awarded the Atwood Vicksburg a three-month contract extension to continue drilling operations offshore Thailand.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - OHM has entered into a strategic partnership with the Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting in China (BGP) to provide marine CSEM survey design, acquisition and processing services to BGP.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Petrofac has selected RBG for fabric maintenance services for all of the company's UKCS Duty Holder assets, plus offshore construction projects.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Petrotechnics has announced the first deployment of its electronic integrated safe system of work (ISSOW) solution in the Middle East.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Phuel Oil Tools will supply Pressure Control Equipment (PCE) in support of a wider contract awarded to Aker Solutions for performing well service operations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.