U.S. Offshore
News
July 01, 2025
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to narrowly approve President Trump's $3.3 trillion tax and spending package dubbed the 'One Big Beautiful Bill.' U.S. energy associations including the API, IPAA, NOIA and EWTC issued separate statements acknowledging the Senate's decision as a victory for the U.S. oil and gas industry.
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June 30, 2025
Danos Operations Services has been awarded a contract to provide production services for Beacon Offshore Energy’s new deepwater facility in the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico — the Shenandoah floating production system.
News
June 27, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council (EWTC) has released a statement praising the Trump Administration’s announcement of a historic offshore lease sale in the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico, slated to offer nearly 80 million acres for oil and gas development.
News
June 20, 2025
According to TIPRO’s analysis, direct Texas upstream employment for May totaled 208,200, an increase of 2,200 industry positions from April employment numbers, subject to revisions. This represented an increase of 600 jobs in the services sector and 1,600 jobs in oil and gas extraction.
News
June 20, 2025
Danos has secured a contract renewal with Eni to provide production labor for its Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico assets. The agreement includes approximately 50 offshore positions, such as production operators, instrumentation and electrical technicians, mechanics and electricians.
News
June 19, 2025
Continuing with the success of Phases I and II of its Laconia 3D OBN multi-client seismic program in the U.S. Gulf, Viridien has announced, in collaboration with partner TGS, the start of Laconia Phase III.
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June 17, 2025
The American Petroleum Institute has joined more than 100 other energy trade groups and organizations in urging the Department of the Interior to develop a new five-year offshore leasing program that fully leverages the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.
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June 16, 2025
EnerMech has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil to deliver a complete flowline decommissioning package for the Hoover Diana development in the Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America. The scope marks EnerMech’s first major decommissioning campaign in the region.
News
June 16, 2025
TotalEnergies has acquired a 25% working interest in a portfolio of 40 exploration leases offshore U.S. from Chevron (operator). The transaction provides access to multiple offshore exploration plays and prospects, strengthening the successful U.S. offshore collaboration with Chevron beyond existing partnerships.
News
June 12, 2025
Oceaneering International, Inc. (Oceaneering) announced today that its Offshore Projects Group (OPG) segment has entered into a vessel services agreement with a major operator for use of the MPSV Harvey Deep Sea.
News
June 11, 2025
The Gulf’s rising importance represents a turnaround from the past two decades, when the region took a backseat to the U.S. shale boom. But now tumbling crude prices are hurting shale drillers while major, longer-term Gulf projects are starting to come online.
News
May 22, 2025
Leaders from the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), issued statements today in support of the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the 2025 tax reconciliation bill.
News
May 22, 2025
Expro has been awarded Tubular Running Services (TRS) contracts by two leading operators in the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico, covering both deepwater drillships and platform rigs. The contracts will integrate Expro's E&P Special Meritorious award-winning Centri-FITM platform.
News
May 21, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council on Tuesday released a statement applauding the Trump Administration's release of the revised Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico Biological Opinion (BiOp) that ensures regulatory certainty and continuity for offshore oil and gas operations.
News
May 20, 2025
Leaders from the American Petroleum Institute and National Ocean Industries Association today voiced their support of the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service’s release of a new biological opinion for the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico.
News
May 20, 2025
U.S. officials from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have lifted the stop-work order for Equinor's Empire Wind project, offshore New York. “I would like to thank President Trump for finding a solution that provides for continued investments in energy infrastructure in the U.S.," said Anders Opedal, President and CEO of Equinor ASA.
News
May 20, 2025
TDI-Brooks has recently finalized a geological evaluation in the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico on behalf of Enbridge. For this project, TDI-Brooks utilized the R/V BROOKS MCCALL, executing 38 piston cores (PC), 7 gravity cone penetration tests (gCPTs), and 82 box cores (BC).
News
May 19, 2025
Sable Offshore has restarted production at the Santa Ynez Unit (SYU), offshore California, marking a major milestone for the development once owned by ExxonMobil. The Santa Ynez Unit was previously shut down in May 2015 after facing regulatory hurdles and a pipeline leak.
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April 2025
Big changes may be headed for hydrocarbon projects
News
May 12, 2025
Equinor ASA got no new signals that the Trump administration would reconsider the halt imposed on the Empire Wind project when its CEO met with a top White House official last week. Now the company must decide whether it will kill the project.
