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LQT inks GoM accommodation modules work

Aug 24, 2017

LQT Industries has been awarded aluminum accommodation modules to three platforms in the Gulf of Mexico to support drilling and production operations. The packages consist of 24 aluminum accommodations modules that will house approximately 136 personnel to support offshore operations…

Updated: Harvey leads to shut ins, evacuations in GoM

Aug 23, 2017

Oil and gas operators are preparing for the approach of Tropical Storm Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico, as the US National Hurricane Center warns Harvey could form into a hurricane by Friday.  Coastal watches/warnings and forecast cone for storm center…

DOF Subsea inks global deals

Aug 23, 2017

DOF Subsea has been awarded several global contracts, securing utilization for several vessels in the subsea IMR projects segment. In the Asia Pacific region and the Atlantic region, DOF Subsea has been awarded several contracts and work under existing frame agreements…

BHP hits at Wildling-2 in GoM

Aug 22, 2017

BHP Billiton has made an oil discovery in multiple horizons at the Wildling-2 appraisal well in the ultra deepwaters of the Gulf of Mexico. Deepater Invictus. Image from Transocean. According to the company…

US Lease Sale 249 reaches US$121 million

Aug 16, 2017

The US Bureau of Ocean Management's (BOEM) Lease Sale 249 brought in high bids of US$121 million from 27 companies with a total of 99 bids earlier today (16 August). Image from BOEM Facebook. A total of 90 blocks were offered…

Energy XXI scraps remaining 2017 drilling plans

Aug 11, 2017

Energy XXI reported mixed results for its current development drilling plans in the West Delta area of the Gulf of Mexico, and has cancelled plans to spud any additional wells in 2017. Source: Energy XXI…

M2 Subsea ink Harvey Gulf services deal

Aug 10, 2017

M2 Subsea, the global independent provider of ROV services, has formed an alliance with vessel operator Harvey Gulf Marine International to provide subsea ROV services in the Gulf of Mexico. The alliance will see M2 Subsea’s ROVs utilized on board Harvey Gulf’s DP2 survey support vessel…

Appomattox hull sets sail for US Gulf

Aug 09, 2017

The hull for Royal Dutch Shell’s Appomattox field development project has set sail from Geoje, South Korea to Ingleside, Texas for completion of construction. Source: Shell Fabrication on…

API disappointed in BOEM seismic assessment

Aug 07, 2017

The American Petroleum Institute (API) says it is disappointed in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on seismic surveying in the Gulf of Mexico. The programmatic EIS…

Cox buys FCX Tiger Shoal stake

Aug 01, 2017

Cox Oil Offshore has purchased a majority stake in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) Outer Continental Shelf from Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas (FM O&G), a subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan. The deal includes FCX’s interests in the Flatrock and Hurricane areas of the OCS-310 Tiger Shoal lease…

BP closing in on Juniper, Zohr

Aug 01, 2017

BP is on track to start up its Juniper project off Trinidad in the coming weeks, and bring Eni’s Zohr online offshore Egypt by the end of 2017. The supermajor was hopeful in its Q2 2017 earnings call, announcing the possibly of having final…

Making MODUs into FPUs

Aug 01, 2017

Mobile offshore drilling units could be a FPU conversion alternative. Karen Boman sets out the details. InterMoor tows the ATP Innovator FPU from the Gomez field in the Gulf of Mexico.Photo from InterMoor’s Flickr…

Designs on the future

Aug 01, 2017

Diamond Offshore is championing a new Floating Factory concept meant to meet future deepwater challenges, but drumming up support during the downturn may be tough. Karen Boman reports. Photo from iStock…

Talos completes Zama-1 well, no oil in Zama Deep

Jul 31, 2017

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…

Supermajors lean on KRYPTOSPHERE in GoM

Jul 26, 2017

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…

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