Will subsea tech join fracking slowdown? There may be too much momentum. Bruce Nichols reports. Testing for Train 2 of the Asgard subsea compression system was completed in December at Aker Solutions’ dockside yard in Egersund…
Most of the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico remains unexplored. Dan McConnell explores the geotechnical knowns and unknowns in the basin. Acquiring geotechnical data for platform foundation design in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche Image from Fugro…
Chevron awarded INTECSEA a contract to provide engineering and long-lead procurement services for the front-end engineering & design (FEED) phase of the Buckskin/Moccasin development in the Gulf of Mexico. Map provided by Chevron…
Oil and gas services provider Petrofac has agreed to form a strategic marketing alliance with McDermott International in the deepwater, subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) sector. Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the two will form a five-year alliance…
BP has brought forward its deployment of Aberdeen-based Return To Scene's R2S Visual Asset Management (VAM) spherical photographic capture of its Atlantis facility in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The R2S photographic team is already on site in the US with project completion…
Mexican officials, including the executive director of the Agencia de Seguridad Energia y Ambiente (ASEA), recently outlined Mexico’s reform efforts and highlighted issues on which the country is working including Transboundary field development…
Mexican state oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is being forced to decrease its budget by US$4 billion, representing an 11.5% decrease from last year, in order to maintain financial balance due to falling oil prices. Image of Lozoya…
Another ruling came down from the Texas Supreme Court involving BP’s Macondo accident. This time, the courts ruled that BP couldn’t claim the estimated US$700 million in insurance carried by Transocean at the time of the spill in 2010. Deepwater…
The Keathley Canyon Connector is now flowing natural gas in the ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico, according to Williams and DCP Midstream Partners, LP. Map of Keathley Canyon. From Williams. The…
The US Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer 41.2 million acres for oil and gas exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico under lease sale 235, which will be held on 18 March 2015 in New Orleans…
Aquatic Engineering & Construction is due to launch a new 120-tonne tensioner in 2015. David Tibbetts, VP Technology, spoke with OE about the methodology behind its design. Two tensioners from…
EMAS AMC’s flagship vessel, the Lewek Constellation, is close to completion at Huisman’s yard in Schiedam, Netherlands. Image from EMAS. The latest addition to EMAS AMC’s fleet has…
Heerema Marine Contractor’s new multi-purpose construction vessel Aegir completed its first job in the Gulf of Mexico. Meg Chesshyre reports. Aegir. Images from Heerema Marine Contractors. The…
LEEVAC Shipyards launched hull 367, designed by LEEVAC Design Services, on 27 January. It is the first of a two-vessel newbuild program for Tidewater Marine, the company says. The vessel, to be classed by ABS, measures 300ft x 62ft x 24ft deep…
In this video, Anadarko gives a closer look of its Red Hawk project. Red Hawk was the world's first cell spar and began production in 2004 in 5300 feet of water in Garden Banks Block 877, approximately 210 mi. south of Lafayette…