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June 30, 2025
Petrobras has awarded Fugro four significant multi-year contracts for the inspection and monitoring of critical subsea infrastructure in Brazil. The contracts will see an expansion of Fugro’s remote operations capabilities, including the remote piloting of ROVs.
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June 2025
The transition from legacy vertical well mathematics to validated, deviated well algorithms represents more than a technical upgrade. It is a fundamental shift in how the industry approaches artificial lift optimization. 
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June 25, 2025
The remote operations capabilities of the ABB Ability™ System 800xA® distributed control system (DCS) has received a statement of professional opinion by DNV, the global quality assurance and risk management company that helps set industry standards and ensure compliance with regulations and best practices.
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June 25, 2025
The Forum Energy Technologies (FET) Subsea product line has secured a contract to provide two work class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to CCC Underwater Engineering (CCC UE), the UAE-based offshore construction organization.
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June 23, 2025
Under the agreement, Cactus will build on its current use of SLB’s Precise™ automated drilling control systems by integrating DrillSync™, SLB’s automated controls platform and software suite. These technologies will work together to improve drilling efficiency
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May 2025
So, you may be asking yourself, “what do data centers and ESG in the oil field have in common,” and why am I talking about data centers in an oil and gas ESG column? Well, believe it or not, it’s all related, but first let me give you some background. 
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June 13, 2025
Rotork has supplied over 200 actuators to ONE-Dyas for the N05-A upstream gas processing platform, located in the Dutch North Sea. The actuators will support the electrification and automation of the platform.
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June 11, 2025
During a June 10 special session at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) in Houston, panelists discussed the latest advancements in Generative AI and machine learning for unconventionals.
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June 11, 2025
The BlueFloat Energy | Nadara Partnership has become the first offshore wind developer to adopt and deploy WindSafe™, an AI-powered safety and assurance platform, across its portfolio of floating wind projects.
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June 10, 2025
EIVA and Terradepth have announced a partnership to streamline subsea data workflows by integrating Terradepth's Absolute Ocean platform with EIVA's NaviSuite software. The collaboration automates the entire subsea-to-client data workflow.
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June 10, 2025
ABB has been awarded a large order by Seatrium to supply electrical equipment and automation solutions on a new generation of FPSO vessels for operator Petrobras. The two vessels—P-84 and P-85—will be deployed approximately 200 km offshore Brazil.
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June 09, 2025
Rotork, a global leader in flow control and intelligent actuation solutions, has joined the Rockwell Automation Technology Partner Program. The collaboration marks a significant step in expanding Rotork’s presence within the industrial automation landscape.
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June 09, 2025
TGS has announced a strategic partnership with Oseberg, a premier provider of lease and regulatory data for the energy sector. This collaboration brings Oseberg lease data attributes into TGS’ Well Data Analytics (WDA) platform for enhanced analysis.
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June 04, 2025
The Hamm Institute for American Energy has announced the launch of the American Energy + AI Initiative. The initiative is a direct outcome of the Powering AI: Global Leadership Summit, held in April and attended by four U.S. Cabinet officials, energy CEOs and top technologists.
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June 02, 2025
Aker Solutions has successfully installed an autonomous drone system on Aker BP’s Edvard Grieg platform in the North Sea, marking a major step toward fully autonomous offshore inspections.
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May 28, 2025
Terradepth has secured a five-year agreement with a major offshore energy company. Terradepth will deploy its Ocean Data as a Service® (ODaaS) solution to deliver autonomous hydrographic survey and data services at a fraction of the traditional time and cost.
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May 15, 2025
Weatherford has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a move to strengthen its digital capabilities. Through the agreement, AWS will support the development of next-generation technologies, further enhancing Weatherford’s Unified Data Model.
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May 08, 2025
OTC 2025 day three kicked off with a keynote speaker panel on the ongoing challenges of digital transformation in the offshore sector. Across various digital technologies, a critical keystone must be addressed to provide a suitable digital foundation: quality data and access to it. 
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May 07, 2025
In keeping with the overall themes raised on day one of OTC 2025, Weatherford CEO Girish Saligram discussed some of the major challenges facing the offshore industry as a whole in an executive dialogue panel on Monday. 
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May 06, 2025
In a session titled “Offshore Production and Recovery: The Value of a Holistic Approach,” SLB’s President of Production Systems, Paul Sims, gave his take on key factors affecting the current offshore energy landscape, as well as SLB’s latest strategies and innovations.
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