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Airborne inks flexibles deal with Wild Well

Nov 16, 2015

Airborne Oil & Gas will supply non-collapsible flexible jumpers to Wild Well Control for the deepest riser less plug and abandonment in the Gulf of Mexico Wild Well Control awarded Airborne Oil & Gas (AOG) a contract for the supply of two flexible TCP Jumpers…

Atwood, Noble Energy extend rig contract

Nov 10, 2015

Atwood Oceanics announced that one of its subsidiaries agreed to an extension and rate adjustment to its existing contract with Noble Energy for the ultra deepwater rig, the Atwood Advantage, effective 9 November, 2015.  The agreement…

Marathon sells Gulf of Mexico assets

Nov 10, 2015

Houston headquartered Marathon Oil has agreed to sell all its operated producing properties in the US Gulf of Mexico and a tranche of non-operated interests for US$205 million. The deal with an undisclosed buyer is said to be part of…

Farstad gets GoM subsea contract

Nov 03, 2015

Image: Far Sentinel/Farstad Shipping Farstad Shipping has been awarded a three-year contract with up to three years options for CSV Far Sentinel by Subtec de C.V. for delivery of light construction work…

Stone in Q3 loss, to cut jobs in Q4

Nov 03, 2015

As Stone Energy reported a net loss of US$8.4 million in Q3 2015, the company’s operations in the Gulf of Mexico are moving full steam ahead, with exception of the decision to shed a minority stake in one non-operated project, in addition to cutting some of its workforce in Q4…

Investigating the deep

Nov 01, 2015

Heather Saucier speaks with Mark Randolph and Susan Gourvenec, professors at the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, about deepwater geotechnical challenges, such as complex carbonates found off the coast of Australia…

Tablet-based software for Ex inspections and maintenance

Nov 01, 2015

René Larsen, of Inspection and maintenance software specialists SafeEx, discusses how Ex inspection software was deployed on a gas compression jackup rig destined for the Cantarell field offshore Mexico. Data collection…

Thinning the herd

Nov 01, 2015

For the offshore floating rig market, the downturn presented the perfect storm: too many rigs, not enough demand, and with some 200 newbuilds set to enter the market over the next decade. Audrey Leon reports. The Maersk Developer…

ConocoPhillips in deepwater departure

Oct 30, 2015

Houston-based ConocoPhillips has made the strategic decision to drop out of its deepwater exploration program by 2017, despite a significant program that the company is executing in 2016. Ekofisk…

DNV GL develops BOP retrieval decision tool

Oct 29, 2015

Retrieving an unreliable blowout preventer (BOP) is a necessary but expensive operation, costing upwards of US$1-2 million dollars. This cost can easily escalate in developing ultra deepwater regions such as Brazil, West Africa and Gulf of Mexico…

Jumbo delivers McDermott modules

Oct 29, 2015

Jumbo's heavy lift vessel Jumbo Vision transported subsea pump modules for McDermott International from the OneSubsea facility in Horsoy, Norway to Ingleside, Texas this month. The cargo consisted of several modules with a maximum cargo lift weight of nearly 350t…

Chevron hits at Anchor appraisal

Oct 29, 2015

Chevron’s appraisal of the Anchor discovery proved successful oil pay in the Lower Tertiary Wilcox Trend, in the US Gulf of Mexico that the company says indicates a significant discovery of potentially hub class scale. Chevron's…

Noble brings Big Bend online

Oct 28, 2015

Noble Energy has commenced production from the Big Bend oil development in Mississippi Canyon 698 of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Noble and partners expect the single-well field to reach a maximum gross production rate of approximately 20…

Helix's Q5000 enters service

Oct 27, 2015

Helix Energy Solutions Group's dedicated DP3 well intervention unit, the Q5000, semisubmersible entered service last week and is currently on hire for an unnamed client in the Gulf of Mexico, the company announced on 27 October. Helix took delivery of the semisub in May…

Worker named in deadly GoM accident

Oct 27, 2015

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) identified the Pacific Drilling employee who died during drilling operations onboard the Pacific Santa Ana drillship in the US Gulf of Mexico. BSEE has confirmed that 34-year-old Sam Whitley…

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