Gulf Of Mexico News


Cortland opens Houston area facility

Apr 14, 2015

Cortland Company is opening a new synthetic fiber testing and fabrication facility in Sugar Land, Texas. Cortland's Houston area testing facility. From Cortland.   Services from…

New regulations for offshore operators

Apr 13, 2015

A new offshore drilling safety rule proposed by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is expected to improve safety offshore in response to the Deepwater Horizon incident five years ago. The proposed rule, 30 CFR Part 250…

Technical issues strike Cobalt's North Platte campaign

Apr 09, 2015

Cobalt International Energy opted to plug and abandon its North Platte No. 2 appraisal well at Garden Banks Block 959 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico due to a seal failure in the riser connection system, the company announced on 9 April. The well…

Offshore Mexico: the EPC perspective

Apr 09, 2015

OE’s Audrey Leon spoke with Scott Cummins, Senior Vice President, Commercial, McDermott about the opening of Mexico’s oil and gas industry and what effects it will have on both McDermott and the industry at large. Welder…

Offshore Mexico: the Subsea perspective

Apr 09, 2015

OE’s Audrey Leon spoke with Francisco Nunez, regional sales manager, Latin America, at OneSubsea, about the opening of Mexico’s oil and gas industry and what effects it will have on both OneSubsea and the industry at large. Please explain…

What lies beneath

Apr 09, 2015

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…

Imaging a new Mexico offshore

Apr 09, 2015

In 4Q 2014, Aberdeen-based Return To Scene, a subsidiary of SeaEnergy, completed project delivery of its first contract with Pemex. Capturing the Ku-S platform. Photo from Return2Scene.    The…

The Mexican offshore contract market

Apr 09, 2015

While the countdown to Round One has dominated activities in the Mexican offshore sector over the past 12 months, there have still been other notable contracts awarded. Pemex’s Ku-S platform in the Bay of Campeche…

On your marks, get set, wait…

Apr 09, 2015

As Mexico’s energy industry slowly opens up to outside investment, the country’s industry is assured to look very different in the future from today. GlobalData’s Adrian Lara and Will Scargill examine the details. Pemex has had a monopoly…

Statoil hits at Yeti in GoM

Apr 09, 2015

Statoil made an oil discovery at Walker Ridge’s Yeti in deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Yeti map. From Statoil.   The Yeti exploration well is located in Walker Ridge Block 160, approximately 15km south of Chevron’s Big Foot field…

Hess hosts congressional delegation at Tubular Bells

Apr 09, 2015

Hess Corp. will host a visit on 9 April of a bipartisan Congressional Delegation to its Tubular Bells oil and gas production facility, located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Tubular Bells…

Mexico’s new era

Apr 09, 2015

David Shields provides a glance at Mexico’s energy reform and Round One. Pemex’s Ku-S platform at the Ku Maloob Zaap oil field in the Bay of Campeche. Image from Return To Scene.   Round One…

Seaway nets Perla job offshore Venezuala

Apr 08, 2015

Seaway Heavy Lifting entered into a contract with Cardon IV in Venezuela for transportation and installation of the Perla project gas production platforms complete with tie-in of the subsea infrastructure.  The Perla development consists…

PEMEX to restore Abkatún production

Apr 06, 2015

After a fire that killed four workers, with three still missing, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) began to restore production at the Abkatún central processing platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Abkatún A. From PEMEX Flickr…

Island Performer docks in New Orleans

Apr 03, 2015

As the last throes of winter ushered in the grey, misty weather upon the mighty Mississippi River in early March, a soon to be familiar visitor in the Gulf of Mexico sat docked at the Port of New Orleans, Island Offshore’s newbuild subsea support vessel Island Performer…

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