Amec Foster Wheeler has announced the award of a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Chevron North Sea Limited to an Amec Foster Wheeler company for the Captain Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) development in the North Sea.

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has received an order from Kleven in Norway for six comprehensive deck handling equipment packages.

French oilfield services provider Technip has pulled out of CGG takeover talks.

Apache Corporation has agreed to sell its interest in two LNG projects, Wheatstone LNG and Kitimat LNG, along with accompanying upstream oil and gas reserves, to Woodside Petroleum Limited for a purchase price of $2.

DOF ASA has received contract extensions for two of its anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels and signed contracts for other two AHTS vessels.

Vallianz Holdings Limited has secured a time charter award worth $97 million with “one of the world’s largest” national oil companies in the Middle East (NOC).

Songa Offshore has informed that its semi-submersible drilling rig Songa Trym, which was recently suspended from operations, is expected to resume operations on or about January 1, 2015.

Canada’s SNC-Lavalin has, through its subsidiary Qatar Kentz, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has been awarded a four-year multi-million-dollar call-off contract, with a possible two-year extension, by Qatar Shell for its Pearl Gas-To-Liquids (GTL) onshore and offshore facilities in Qatar.

Australian oil and gas company Santos has today reduced its projected 2015 capital expenditure to $2.

World’s second largest provider of oilfield services, Halliburton, will let a thousand workers go, according to reports.