NOV's senior vice president and chief financial officer, Jeremy D. Thigpen, has left the company effective immediately to become president and CEO of rig owner Transocean. Thigpen succeeds Ian C. Strachan who was appointed interim CEO…
For the first time in decades, Mexico’s upstream business is accessible to foreign companies. A panel of experts discussed the implications at this week's CERAWeek conference in Houston and found that, with three bidding rounds planned and data rooms open for scrutinizing…
Statoil’s CEO Eldar Sætre made the case for simplicity, industrialization, and standardization as a way for the industry to get through the current downturn at IHS CERAWeek in Houston Tuesday afternoon. Sætre opened with a joke about the downturn saying…
Texas A&M Corpus Christi’s Harte Research Institute (HRI) discusses the state of the Gulf of Mexico five years after the BP Deepwater Horizon spill. In this video, the HRI scientists say that the Gulf of Mexico remains resilient after the second largest oil disaster in world history…
Currently, the energy industry is focused on finding ways to master the challenges of the low oil-price cycle. To meet those challenges, first, operators must re-evaluate the future of global oil development, said OAO LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov…
This week commemorates the fifth anniversary of one of the worst oil spills in US history. On 20 April 2010, 11 lives were lost when BP’s Macondo well blew out, spilling millions of barrels of oil, igniting not just a fire, but change within the oil and gas industry…
The global oil and gas industry, and US companies in particular, will require four key changes to expedite recovery from the current slowdown in activity, said Ryan Lance, chairman and chief executive of ConocoPhillips. Ryan made his comments…
The UK government is giving Dea UK and partner LetterOne three to six months for a further change of control for UK North Sea petroleum licenses or they will be revoked. RWE Breagh installation…
A DNV GL-led subsea production systems (SPS) joint industry project (JIP) involving 20 industry players has made a major step forward in addressing this global industry with the first issue of a recommended practice (RP). “The JIP group…
The Gulf of Mexico remains resilient five years after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizoncaused the second largest oil disaster in world history. Scientists at the Harte Research Institute (HRI) for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M…
The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) board of directors has elected Cindy B. Taylor as chair and Kevin McEvoy as vice chairman for the upcoming 2015-2016 term. Taylor and McEvoy assumed their positions at the NOIA annual meeting today in Washington…
The GSF Explorer drillship is next on the chopping block as Transocean decides to scrap its 19th rig, causing an estimated US$120 million hit to the company. The Transocean Sedco Express was awarded a 45-day contract…
Louisiana-based LLOG Exploration Co. began production from the Delta House floating production system (FPS) in the Gulf of Mexico. Delta House. From LLOG. Delta House is located in Mississippi Canyon 254…
In April, Transocean’s Deepwater Asgard drillship arrived in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) to work under a two-year contract for Chevron. The ship is a Daewoo Shipbuilding DSME 12000 design with dynamic positioning capabilities and can drill up to 35…
Houston-based Eco-Engineering Solutions selected to use Paradigm’s Sysdrill software for well planning and drilling engineering. Image of well path positional uncertainty displayed in Sysdrill 3D viewer…