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Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) has launched two pre-qualification contracts for the construction of the 105 km offshore pipeline section under the Adriatic Sea.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper has announced the bureau will offer more than 21 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.

BW Offshore has confirmed that bodies of the remaining three crew members who went missing in the FPSO explosion in Brazil in February, have been recovered.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has issued its resource accounts for the Norwegian continental shelf as of December 31, 2014.

Statoil has awarded the Johan Sverdrup SURF Detail Engineering and Services 2015-20 contract to IKM Ocean Design.

DOF Subsea UK’s survey and positioning business in the UK and US has been awarded an extension of a Master Service Agreement with Heerema Marine Contractors of Leiden, The Netherlands.

Russian billionaire Mickhail Fridman and his LetterOne investment fund business partners, have become the owners of a string of UK North Sea assets , despite a last-minute move from the UK Government to block the £3.

Tomskneft, a joint venture between Rosneft and Gazprom Neft, has started using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to monitor its pipeline routes and the oil and gas production assetsTesting of the drones has started at the Sovetskoe and Vakhskoe fields located in the Strezhevskiy District.

Lundin Norway AS (Lundin) has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway(PSA) for exploration drilling of well 7220/11-2, in the Barents Sea with Island Innovator rig.