Deepwater
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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.
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August 14, 2015
Six workers have been confirmed dead following an accident involving a Bristow helicopter returning from a rig offshore Nigeria.
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August 13, 2015
North Atlantic Drilling’s CFO, Ragnvald Kavli, is to leave the company to pursue other career opportunities. He will step down from his duties as of Aug. 17.
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August 12, 2015
InterMoor Inc., an Acteon company, provided Anadarko Petroleum Corporation with rapid hook-up services for their Heidelberg truss spar in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico after stepping in at short notice for another contractor.
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August 10, 2015
Schlumberger expanded its Gulf of Mexico multiclient wide-azimuth seismic data portfolio by launching a new survey in the Campeche basin.
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August 07, 2015
Deep Down, Inc. has received orders for flying leads and offshore services, all for the Gulf of Mexico, valued in excess of $2 million.
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August 07, 2015
Bluewater Energy Services has been awarded a contract from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the engineering, procurement, construction and integration (EPCI) of a major turret and mooring system for the Rosebank FPSO.
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August 07, 2015
ION Geophysical has announced the availability of fast-track pre-stack time migrated (PSTM) data from the first phase of its MexicoSPAN program.
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August 06, 2015
Transocean Ltd., the world’s largest offshore rig owner, rose the most since hiring a new CEO in April as his move to reduce expenses led second-quarter profit to beat estimates.
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July 23, 2015
Imagine parking your $300 million boat for months out in the open sea, with well-paid mechanics hovering around it and the engine running.
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July 21, 2015
An Exxon Mobil discovery off the coast of Guyana may hold oil and natural gas worth 12 times the South American nation’s entire economic output.
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July 20, 2015
Energy producers are abandoning the search for oil and natural gas close to shore in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico as drilling budgets shrink and exploration migrates to land-based shale fields.
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July 20, 2015
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has welcomed the federal government’s effort to align regulations for offshore well control with industry standards in comments filed with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).
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July 17, 2015
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper announced Thursday that the bureau will offer approximately 21.9 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.
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July 16, 2015
ConocoPhillips is to reduce future deepwater exploration spending, with the most significant reductions coming from the company’s operated Gulf of Mexico program, the company said Thursday.
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July 16, 2015
International energy producers that sat out Mexico’s historic auction of oil and natural gas fields this week will be among the fiercest competitors for potentially massive deepwater prospects that go up for sale as soon as next month.
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July 10, 2015
Schlumberger has achieved SEMS certification to Center for Offshore Safety Program expectations and 30 CFR 250 Subpart S requirements. Schlumberger is the first service/supply contractor to achieve this voluntarily, further demonstrating their commitment to SEMS, assurance of their safety management system, and to ensure they know where is best to focus their continuing work on safety management.
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July 09, 2015
Statoil Petroleum awarded Baker Hughes an eight-year contract to design and supply production chemicals to the offshore Norne field and the deepwater Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea.
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July 08, 2015
In November 2011, BG’s Brasil’s well engineering team and Petrobras set out an ambitious target at a historic drilling performance workshop—to drill ultra-deepwater, pre-salt wells from spud to final depth in 30 days at a cost of less than $30 million.
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July 06, 2015
Petrobras has long been a pioneer in the adoption and deployment of deepwater technology. This has enabled them to build huge reserves of some 16 Bbbl of oil. Converting these reserves to production, however, is another matter and Petrobras has a history of setting ambitious targets, with a poor record of meeting them.
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July 06, 2015
The floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) Cidade de Itaguaí is now anchored in the Iracema Norte area of Lula field, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos basin, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
