Deepwater
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November 05, 2015
Transocean Ltd. posted a better profit than analysts expected as the world’s largest offshore rig owner races to slash costs to cope with falling demand for deepwater oil drilling. Lower taxes helped.
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November 04, 2015
Baker Hughes announced today the commercial release of its high-performance, low-dosage FATHOM XT SUBSEA525 inhibitor that helps control asphaltene deposition in deepwater wells, providing better flow assurance and reducing remediation costs by minimizing the risk of blockages in production lines and equipment.
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November 03, 2015
The deepwater Zohr gas discovery in Egypt is of major significance to the Eastern Mediterranean region.
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November 03, 2015
Wood Mackenzie has released the key findings of one of its latest studies prepared for Africa Oil Week - Fiscal systems for oil in Sub Saharan Africa - which identifies the main themes emerging as nations across the region revise their fiscal policies.
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November 02, 2015
The pressure is building on North Sea drillers starved of contracts as Statoil ASA deepens cuts in investment to cope with a collapse in crude prices.
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November 02, 2015
Following the success of its 2012 and 2014 bidding rounds, the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy of Equatorial Guinea has announced it will launch a new bidding round for all remaining deep and ultra-deepwater blocks in 2016.
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October 30, 2015
Retrieving an unreliable blowout preventer (BOP) is a necessary but expensive operation, costing upwards of one or two million dollars and can easily double in developing ultra-deepwater regions.
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October 30, 2015
Big U.S. oil companies are starting to think small.
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October 29, 2015
Chevron Corp. has announced the successful appraisal of the deepwater Anchor discovery in the Lower Tertiary Wilcox Trend in the Gulf of Mexico.
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October 29, 2015
Noble Energy announced Wednesday that the Big Bend oil development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico commenced production on Oct. 26.
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October 27, 2015
Technip was awarded a substantial (ranging from $110 to $276 million) contract from Libra Oil & Gas BV.
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October 26, 2015
Transocean has announced a mutual agreement with its customer, Shell EP Wells Equipment Wells Services, and the shipyard, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), to delay the operating and delivery contracts of two newbuild ultra-deepwater drillships—the Deepwater Pontus and the Deepwater Poseidon—by 12 months each.
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October 23, 2015
The LAGCOE Career Fair addresses the industry's growing need for qualified employees by providing an industry specific networking event.
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October 22, 2015
Production of oil and natural gas from facilities operated by Petrobras in the pre-salt layer exceeded 1 MMboed during September, with output averaging 1.028 MMboed, and reaching a record level of 1.12 MMboed on Sept. 15.
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October 22, 2015
With Exxon Mobil reported to be moving the Liza discovery in deepwater Guyana into pre-Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) less than five months after confirming the find, the project has the potential to yield significant returns for investors, according to GlobalData.
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October 21, 2015
PhDsoft Technology’s C4D is an asset integrity management software that accurately predicts the degradation and corrosion of complex assets over time.
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October 21, 2015
HOUSTON -- A Pacific Drilling employee has been fatally injured on the Pacific Santa Ana drillship in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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October 19, 2015
TGS announced that it has acquired 46,500 km (25%) of the 186,000 km 2D seismic project, Gigante.
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October 15, 2015
More than 300 of the upstream industry’s brightest minds gathered Thursday to find out the winners of the 2015 World Oil Awards.
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October 15, 2015
The consortium responsible for the Libra oil field in the Santos basin pre-salt has completed the drilling of well 3-BRSA-1310-RJS, in the central area of the block.
