Orlen Unipetrol has revealed a timeline for scheduled removal of an unexploded aerial World War II bomb, the discovery of which suspended all processing and production activities at the operator’s complex in Litvínov in the Czech Republic.
![[OTS Offshore] - Mintra, PaleBlue partner on oil and gas gamification training courses](https://ots-tl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/OTS-Offshore-Mintra-PaleBlue-partner-on-oil-and-gas-gamification-training-courses.jpg "ONS 2024: Mintra, PaleBlue partner on oil and gas gamification training courses ONS 2024: Mintra, PaleBlue partner on oil and gas gamification training courses")
This collaboration enables more than 2 million of Mintra’s system users to experience gamification to enhance engagement and reinforce knowledge retention.
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Jackups released from the Saudi work program have been picked up in other high-spec markets, says Evercore ISI.
![[OTS OFfshore] - Aker BP uses DrillDocs real-time rig surveillance technology-2](https://ots-tl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/OTS-OFfshore-Aker-BP-uses-DrillDocs-real-time-rig-surveillance-technology-2.jpg "ONS 2024: Aker BP uses DrillDocs real-time rig surveillance technology ONS 2024: Aker BP uses DrillDocs real-time rig surveillance technology")
DrillDocs has delivered real-time drilled cuttings size distribution data from the Norwegian Continental Shelf to Aker BP.
![[OTS Offshore]- IMAGE 2024 - Petrobras enters R&D collaboration with TGS](https://ots-tl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/OTs-Offshore-IMAGE-2024-Petrobras-enters-RD-collaboration-with-TGS-1024x576.jpg "IMAGE 2024: Petrobras enters R&D collaboration with TGS IMAGE 2024: Petrobras enters R&D collaboration with TGS")
TGS and Petrobras have agreed to collaborate on scientific research and technological developments in Brazil.
The US Interior Department retained protections on 28 million acres of D-1 public lands in Alaska Aug. 27, reversing a Trump-era bid to allow oil and natural gas leasing on the land.
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Energy and Shell are weighing further development opportunities for the country’s offshore Kashagan and onshore Karachaganak fields.
The partners will evaluate the discovery as a potential subsea tieback to Aasta Hansteen spar platform.
A court said the National Marine Fisheries Service’s biological opinion for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico fails to protect an endangered species of whale and sturgeon.
Gas produced from Italy’s offshore Argo Cassiopea fields is transported through a 60 km subsea pipeline to the Gela processing plant.
