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Equinor has, on behalf of the Haltenbanken West Unit and Halten East licences, awarded Transocean Spitsbergen a firm drilling programme consisting of nine wells and options for another two.

McDermott International has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by North Oil Company (NOC) for the Ruya Development, previously referred to as Al-Shaheen Phase 3-Batch 1, located offshore Qatar.

Forum Energy Technologies has delivered two work-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) sales to Brazilian marine engineering company Oc to support its deepwater intervention operations and strengthen its offering to the energy sector.The systems were manufactured at FET’s UK facility at Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire and delivered in the first half of 2022.FET supplied two Perry XLX-C work-class ROV systems, both designed to deliver high performance in challenging subsea environments adding fresh capability to the Oceanica fleet.The 3,000m rated compact 200HP XLX-C delivers high performance in a small form factor.

CenterPoint Energy announced that its green hydrogen project in Minneapolis is operational. The project uses renewable electricity to safely split hydrogen from water, and the zero-carbon hydrogen is then blended at low concentrations with natural gas in the utility's local distribution system.CenterPoint Energy is one of the first natural gas utilities in the United States to produce and add green hydrogen to its distribution system.

Horisont Energi, a clean energy and carbon transport and storage services provider, and Lhyfe, a world pioneer and pure player in renewable green hydrogen, announce they have entered a memorandum of understanding for the joint development of green ammonia-producing plants in Europe fed by green hydrogen plants.Horisont Energi has already entered into a cooperation agreement with Equinor and Vår Energi for the development of Barents Blue, Europe’s first large-scale production facility for blue ammonia located in Finnmark in Northern Norway.

Calgary based Gas Liquids Engineering announces the availability of SABR, a new licensed process for propane and ethane extraction from natural gas, in many cases using 5-20% less energy than competitive processes."We are truly thrilled to offer SABR at this time to the natural gas processing industry", stated Gas Liquids Engineering Vice President Operations, Stuart MacKenzie.

Samotics – a leading provider of solutions to eliminate industrial energy waste and unplanned downtime – has launched a new energy efficiency product to market: SAM4 ENERGY.

HyNet, the UK’s leading industrial decarbonization cluster was selected by the UK Government as a Track 1 cluster. The project will unlock a low carbon future for Northwest England and North Wales, producing and distributing low carbon hydrogen to replace the fossil fuels used in industry, transport, and homes, and capture and store carbon dioxide.Vertex Hydrogen is designing, developing, and building the UK’s first large scale, low carbon hydrogen production plant that will be a core part of HyNet.

Sulzer’s pumps are helping to optimize oil recovery while reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a pioneering project in the Middle East.

Hoerbiger recently expanded its hydrogen research center in Vienna in an effort to accelerate the decarbonization of the energy industry.“Hoerbiger is already intensively researching innovative solutions and new products for the use of high-pressure reciprocating compressors in various applications,” said Markus Digruber, head of innovation and business development compression division.