Deepwater
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September 23, 2015
Vallourec delivers 14,000 tons of premium tubes in the scope of a contract with Hess Corporation for the Stampede project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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September 23, 2015
FMC Technologies, Inc. has received an award from Shell Offshore for its Appomattox deepwater development in the Gulf of Mexico.
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September 22, 2015
Technip USA, Inc., and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), Ltd. have entered into an agreement to develop a joint design of a low motion semisubmersible production platform.
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September 22, 2015
UK subsea companies will be heading to Mexico at the end of this week on a trade mission, which aims to match British expertise with the requirements of the emerging oil and gas sector in Latin America’s second largest economy.
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September 22, 2015
OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the Greater Enfield Area Development offshore northwest Australia.
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September 16, 2015
Exxon Mobil announced Wednesday that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, has started oil production ahead of schedule at the Erha North Phase 2 project offshore Nigeria.
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September 16, 2015
Deep Down, Inc., an oil field services company specializing in complex deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil production distribution system support services, has received a large order for patented flying leads and unique UTA (Umbilical Termination Assembly), valued at approximately $2.5 million, directly from an independent operator.
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September 16, 2015
With the upstream oil and gas sector seeking new water treatment technologies as companies move into deeper waters, GE has announced that Petrobras has approved GE’s new seawater sulfate removal (SWSR) nanofiltration membrane for use in water injection applications regarding sulfate removal.
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September 15, 2015
A new joint venture between Harkand and Consolidated Shipping Agencies has resulted in its first contract win in Ghana, West Africa.
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September 15, 2015
Seadrill Limited has notified Hyundai Heavy Industries that it has exercised its right to cancel the contract for the construction of the West Mira, a sixth generation ultra-deepwater harsh environment semisubmersible drilling unit.
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September 11, 2015
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is to offer 40 million acres offshore Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama for oil and gas exploration and development in sales that will include all available unleased areas in the Central and Eastern Gulf of Mexico Planning Areas.
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September 09, 2015
The CEO of Proserv has called for the industry to make dynamic changes to the way it acts and behaves. Speaking at Offshore Europe, David Lamont said the North Sea has many years of profitable life ahead if the sector urgently adopts more collaborative and efficient business practices.
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September 09, 2015
Oceaneering International, Inc., has secured a contract from Shell Offshore to supply umbilicals for the deepwater Appomattox development located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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September 04, 2015
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 104, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 30/9-27 S.
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August 25, 2015
Seatronics, an Acteon company, has secured the first UK sale of 2G Robotics' ULS-200 underwater laser scanner.
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August 24, 2015
Sonangol and Cobalt International Energy have announced the signing of a sale and purchase agreement for Sonangol to acquire all of Cobalt’s 40% participating interest in Blocks 21/09 and 20/11 offshore Angola for $1.75 billion.
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August 24, 2015
TGS has received an authorization from Mexico's Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) for the acquisition of multibeam, coring and geochemical analysis data over an area of approximately 600,000 sq km in Mexican waters.
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August 19, 2015
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held its oil and gas lease sale for the Western Gulf of Mexico that drew $22,675,212 in high bids.
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August 19, 2015
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held an oil and gas lease sale Wednesday for the Western Gulf of Mexico that drew $22,675,212 in high bids for tracts on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf offshore Texas.
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August 18, 2015
Aquatic Engineering and Construction, an Acteon company, has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract on the $10-billion Moho Nord subsea project, off the coast of the Republic of Congo, West Africa.
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August 14, 2015
Norwegian offshore player Egersund Group recently set a new oil spill recovery record when its newly developed Marine Oil Spill (MOS) Sweeper system managed to recover 96.4% of oil released in a North Sea exercise.