BONATTI HAS BEEN awarded a US$149.7mn contract to construct the export pipelines for the Sonatrach-Anadarko Association El Merk processing hub project in Algeria. The engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract involves the construction of three pipelines from the El Merk Central Production Facility.

BAKER HUGHES announced that The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has designated the Hughes Christensen Two-Cone Drill Bit as a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark. The award recognizes this drilling technology as one of the nation’s most important mechanical engineering achievements. ASME officials presented Baker Hughes with the Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.

Honeywell announced the launch of Sensepoint XCD, an internationally certified gas detector that offers a number of robust solutions for the detection of flammable, toxic and oxygen gases in potentially explosive atmospheres. Sensepoint XCD offers excellent flexibility and is suited to a wide range of industrial applications.

LEADING EQUIPMENT/ SERVICES provider GE Oil & Gas has increased its advanced subsea capabilities by opening a new SmartCenter near Bristol in the UK, just two hours by road from the country’s main airports.

Chevron is moving into the final phase of a landmark test of a new application of enhanced oil recovery technology in the partitioned neutral zone between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, The National reported.

QUADRANT HAS BROADENED its full production size range of enhanced PTFE materials with the addition of two new grades: Fluorosint HPV and Fluorosint MT-01.

Pipe stoppers resistant to oils and chemicals are are now available, following extensive development and research by Huntingdon Fusion Techniques Limited.

The risk of cable snarl-up during multiple ROV operations beneath the waves is avoided in a TMS design breakthrough.

The solution came from a joint project mounted by Subsea 7, one of the world’s leading subsea engineering and construction companies, and world-leading ROV manufacturer.

Kentz Corporation Limited, through its operating unit L announced that it has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract worth in excess of US$15mn by Qatar Petroleum (QP).

Caledyne, a leading energy industry engineering services and products specialist, recently launched its balance pump, part of its world-first complete commercial deliquification offering, designed to radically transform operations and offer a new lease of life to mature gas wells.

Subsea Riser Products (SRP), an Acteon company, has successfully attached the first flanges to pipe sections that will make up a unique ultra-high-pressure drilling riser for use by Venture Production in the North Sea.

The Regulator Technologies division of Emerson Process Management, the world’s leading supplier of pressure regulators and services for natural gas applications, has published Edition VI of its Natural Gas Technologies Pressure Regulator Application Guide.

Masdar - Abu Dhabi’s multi-faceted renewable energy and sustainability initiative, wholly owned company of the government of Abu Dhabi through the Mubadala Development Company, has signed a framework agreement with Bahrain’s National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA)

Specialist oilfield production chemicals company Champion Technologies has been awarded a three year contract with extension options for a further four years by Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd to provide production chemicals for subsea and topside applications across its North Sea assets.

RTK Instruments Ltd has launched the world exclusive SIL725 Safety Annunciator, designed and manufactured to provide a high safety integrity for critical alarm applications and for use as a component part of a safety instrumented system.