Genesis Petroleum has hired AGR Petroleum Services to undertake a complete well services project and make available the Byford Dolphin semi-submersible rig to drill the company’s first U.K. well early in 2008. 
Year-and-half-old Subsea 7 offshoot i-Tech has snagged four new contracts worth a combined $30 million from Petrobras, Canadian Superior, Sonangol and Petro-Canada the company heralded Monday. 
Sub-sea engineering firm JP Kenny has bought a design software license package from Dassault Systems to improve its design and installation operations for large Western Australia gas-field projects. 
Total has all but secured reserves from Gazprom’s giant Shtokman gas field in the eastern Barents Sea, after a signing ceremony in Moscow Friday clinched a 25-year development deal, with options. 
Technip will install an electro-hydraulic control umbilical for the Bass Lite in the Gulf of Mexico, a Mariner Energy contract of unspecified value. 
Gazprom has chose French oil company Total to jointly own the Shtokman project company which will own some $16 billion in infrastructure at the 3.6-trillion-cubic metre gas field in the eastern Barents Sea.
Alstom helps Middle East market with €150M order Jul 10, 2007
Paris-based energy-services company Alstom has done its part to create a gas market in the Middle East with a €150M order to install five gas turbines in Kuwait at the new Az Zour power plant being built in Kuwait. 
Electromagnetic Geoservices has been awarded a contract by an unnamed energy company to determine the hydrocarbon content of potential reservoirs offshore eastern Canada using seabed-logging technology. 
Statoil has has handed out five-year contracts for pipeline coating services worth NOK3 billion ($515 million) with Bredero, Socotherm and Eupec, the oil company heralded Friday. 
Aker Kvaerner has signed a NOK 434 million ($74.5 million )contract with Subsea 7 Norway to deliver steel-tube umbilical for Norsk Hydro's Vega and Troll O2 developments in the North Sea. |
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Wood Group Engineering has secured three more years of work operating and maintaining the floating production, storage and offloading vessel Triton for an estimated $120 million, it was learned Tuesday. 
Offshore construction outfit Oceanteam Power & Umbilical has hired out its DP2 cable lay and repair vessel TEAM OMAN to Nexans Norway for umbilical repair work in the Middle East. 
Drilling contractor Awilco Offshore has secured a drilling package from National Oilwell in Kristiansand, Norway for a fourth new-build, semi-submersible drill rig not yet ordered. 
Statoil has signed contracts with Canadian flyer CHC Helicopter Service for flights between offshore installations and the coastal cities of Bergen and Floro and the maintenance of a standby chopper at the Statfjord B platform. 
Paris-based seismic outfit CGGVeritas has ordered two seismic vessels from Norwegian shipbuilder Eidesvik Offshore for a combined $420 million, with deliveries timed for 2010, when most of today's newbuild semi-submersibles begin exploring the seas. 
The Cacouna Energy Project, a joint project of Petro-Canada and TransCanada Corporation (TransCanada) learned today that the Quebec government has granted a decree approving the proposal to construct the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) re-gasification terminal in Quebec. 
A consortium of oil companies lead by Nippon Oil Exploration Ltd. has hired the Songa Saturn drill ship for work offshore Libya, in a $91 million work order for the rig contractor. 
A consortium of oilfield infrastructure builders J. Ray McDermott and Fluor has been awarded a contract to engineer, build, install and procure for BG’s offshore Poinsettia project in Trinidad & Tobago. 
Aker Kvaerner will deliver NOK610 million in topsides equipment to sister outfit Aker Floating Production after penning a deal to equip the floating production, storage and offloading vessel, the FPSO SMART 1. 
Statoil has granted a NOK600 million ($100 million) contract extension for light-well intervention, or LWI, to Island Offshore Management and partners FMC Technologies and Aker Kvaerner Well Services. |
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