TGS is continuing its Explorer series seismic acquisition program in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico with Panfilo 3D. Panfilo 3D will add 11,500sq km to TGS' multi-client library in the Lund and Henderson Central Gulf of Mexico protraction areas…
Singapore-based Marine Contracting Pte Ltd. has received an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract (EPCI) from Rotterdam-based Jord Oil & Gas Systems BV (JOGS) to install an interconnecting bridge and tripod support…
Houston-based Wild Well Control has unveiled its new subsea capping stack for response to a global deepwater well control incident that will be located in Singapore. Image from Wild Well The Singapore capping stack…
LQT Industries engineered and built a new series of aluminum accommodation modules that will be utilized by a major oil and gas operator on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The buildings are 10ft x 35ft and weigh 16,000lb. The built modules…
Noble Energy awarded Dutch services provider SBM Offshore a contract for the Big Bend and Dantzler fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Thunder Hawk from SBM Offshore The two companies signed a…
Technip has agreed to its North American diving assets to Ranger Offshore as it looks to focus on high technology and ultra-deep water products and services. Proceeds from this divestment will be partially reinvested directly into Technip's subsea business…
Consulting petroleum geologist Colin Stabler spoke to a full house at the Houston Geological Society's General Dinner on 15 September 2014, presenting 'Mexico's Challenge to Explorationists.' Stabler has worked Mexican subsurface geology since 1966…
The outlook for the deepwater and ultra deepwater market is positive, with a forecast capital growth rate of around 8% between 2014 and 2018, according to Infield Systems Ltd.’s deepwater and ultra deepwater report. Infield Systems anticipates…
McDermott International, Inc. completed the Jack and St. Malo project for Chevron USA Inc. located in the Gulf of Mexico Walker Ridge area. The just-completed project is part of the first stage of development of the Jack South, St. Malo South and St…
Deep Gulf Energy II has awarded Technip a lump sum contract for the development of the deepwater, high-pressure, high-temperature Kodiak field, in Mississippi Canyon Blocks 727 and 771, in the Gulf of Mexico. The in 1472-1710m water depth…
In Shell’s latest video, the supermajor shows how Cardamom is extending the life of Auger to provide as many as 50,000 more boe/d, increasing Auger’s production capacity to 130,000boe/d. OE reported earlier this week of Shell beginning…
Shell started production from its Cardamom subsea oil and gas field located in the Gulf of Mexico. The Cardamom system is tied back to Shell's Auger tension leg platform (TLP), marking the seventh subsea development to come onstream through the platform since first oil was achieved in 1994…
Sevan Drilling's cylindrical drilling unit, the Sevan Louisiana (pictured), continues to encounter operational difficulties due to the BOP and supporting systems, the firm said today (September 8). An original issue with the unit's BOP…
A US federal district court judge ruled on Thursday that the Macondo blowout, which killed 11 workers, and spilled millions of barrels into the US Gulf of Mexico was the result of BP’s gross negligence and willful misconduct. BP’s contractors Transocean and Halliburton were both found negligent…
Statoil’s Martin prospect located in Mississippi Canyon block 718 in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) has been plugged and abandoned. Statoil said while a discovery was made, it was non-commercial. Statoil says the Maersk Developer semisubmersible rig…