
Oslo Stock Exchange-listed offshore drilling contractor Northern Ocean has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Texas-based provider of wellhead and pressure control equipment, Kinetic Pressure Control, to install the latter’s technology on its two rigs.

Gulf Marine Services (GMS), a UAE-headquartred provider of self-propelled and self-elevating support vessels for the offshore energy sector, has raised its backlog to $505 million thanks to a new contract in Europe and the extension of two existing ones in the Middle East. GMS reported on October 10