Shell Petroleum Development has contracted Saipem to install the Otumara-Saghara-Escravos gas pipeline in Nigeria.

First gas has flowed through the Medgaz trunkline taking supplies north from Algeria to mainland Spain via the Mediterranean Sea.

Total Gabon has contracted Sea Trucks to install a 32-km (19.9-mi) gas pipeline between the Anguille and Torpille fields offshore Gabon.

Subsea 7 Inc. says it new ice-class DP pipelay and construction vessel, Seven Pacific, has mobilized for its first project.

Saipem has won three pipelay jobs in Europe and West Africa with a collective value of €700 million euro.

Wood Group has unveiled a hydrate liquefying tool designed to melt ice and paraffin blockages in production pipes of oil and gas wells.

Swagelining is to supply its polymer lining system for a 14-in. (35-cm) water injection riser for BP’s block 31 project offshore Angola.

Subsea 7 has completed the Girassol pipeline repair project for Total E&P Angola.

BJ Services has completed a subsea pipeline pre-commissioning operation for Saipem on the Akpo field, offshore Nigeria using the deepwater support vessel Bourboun Trieste and FPSO Akpo.