Plexus Holdings has signed an agreement with Sonangol to supply its POS-GRIP wellhead systems and services for drilling offshore Angola.

Petrobras has awarded Aker Solutions a $41-million contract to supply sulphate removal units and associated equipment for the P-58 and P-62 FPSOs offshore Brazil.

FMC has contracted Scana Subsea for machined riser forgings.

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has granted Statoil consent to use Oseberg field center low-pressure oil production (LPOP).

Statoil has awarded Aibel a three-year contract for the Snorre A and B platforms.

Hydrex has completed repair and replacement work on one of four swing-up azimuth thrusters for a crane barge servicing rigs offshore Gabon.

Trelleborg Offshore has developed an innovative syntactic foam insulation for saturation diving to depths of 1,000 ft (300 m).

Expro’s deepwater AX-S subsea well intervention system features RotaBolts on its key pressure containing flanges.

Shell and IBM have agreed to explore advanced techniques for reconciling geophysical and reservoir engineering field data using improved algorithms, analytics, and accelerated simulations.

Merrick Systems has launched Software as a Service (SaaS) technology solution, which allows companies to host their choice of Merrick’s production software package – field, operations, or enterprise – on its secure environment.

Fugro-Jason has released EarthModel FT 4.1, the latest version of its geologic modeling software.