Talos Energy's Zama-1 exploration well, which made the 'world class' Zama discovery, has failed to find further volumes in a deeper target. Zama-1 is being drilled in 166m water depth, in Block 7 in the Sureste Basin, about 37mi (60km) off Tabasco…
CARBO Ceramics announced KRYPTOSPHERE HD has been utilized by all supermajor E&Ps operating in the Gulf of Mexico, for deep, high stress wells. KRYPTOSPHERE HD is the leading ultra-conductive, high strength ceramic proppant. It was initially…
W&T Offshore has secured the Enterprise Offshore 264 jackup rig to drill the South Timbalier Block 224 condensate prospect in the US Gulf of Mexico, says partner Otto Energy. According to Otto, W&T expects to spud the well in Q4. The prospect is in approximately 170ft of water…
Anadarko Petroleum failed at two wildcats offshore Cote D’Ivore in West Africa. Walker. Image from Anadarko. The first exploration well, Paon-6A, was drilled at Block CI-103 in Q2…
ASV Global has started phase 2 of a multi-phased project with Shell aiming to develop an unmanned seismic energy source vessel as part of their Rapid Autonomous Marine 4D (RAM4D) source concept. Upcoming trials for the project will include…
Oilfield giant schlumberger has revealed a slew of new contacts including a deal to supply equipment to the Leviathan field, offshore Israel, and to perform ocean bottom survey work on BP's Clair Ridge field, west of Shetland, UK. The…
Some 75.9 million acres offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are to be offered for oil and gas exploration and development, US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced. Image from BOEM…
Royal Dutch Shell encountered hydrocarbons in the initial Whale exploration well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Noble Globetrotter I. Image from Huisman. The well was safety…
Map of Anchor, from Chevron. Houston’s Cobalt International Energy has entered into a definitive agreement with its co-owners in the Anchor development to unitize and include Cobalt’s…
Trendsetter Engineering has successfully completed live well operations with their new 15,000 psi subsea hydraulic intervention system (referred to as STIM). Trendsetter's STIM. Image from Trendsetter…
Shell is buying the deepest floating production unit in the world, the Turritella floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit in a US$1 billion cash deal that will allow the supermajor to assume operatorship of the entire Stones development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico…
Cantium has taken over US supermajor Chevron’s Bay Marchand and Main Pass assets in the Gulf of Mexico. The takeover includes five fields located on the Gulf of Mexico’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and in Louisiana state waters…
Otto Energy has farmed into the South Timbalier 224 (ST 224) lease, taking 25% stake in the Gulf of Mexico, with drilling expected to start later this year, and first production set for the end of 2018. Map of SM 71 (left) and ST 224 (right)…
Sheffield Forgemasters' offshore oil and gas specialist, Vulcan SFM, secured a US$7.1 million (5.5 million GBP) contract with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to supply 73 steel castings ranging from 0.5-tonne to 19.5-tonne, for a semisubmersible oil platform…
While significant costs have been stripped out of the oil and gas industry, shale is fighting back. And, if the subsea industry is to survive, it will need more than just reduced costs, industry executives told the Underwater Technology Conference (UTC) in Bergen…
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