Helix Energy Solutions Group is selling its 50% stake in Marco Polo platform owner Deepwater Gateway to a subsidiary of Genesis Energy for US$25 million. Anthony Tripodo, Executive Vice President and CFO of Helix, said: “The sale of the…
Water treatment solutions company Water Standard secured a contract with Shell Offshore for the design, fabrication, testing, and shipment of an ultrapure water generation package (UWGP) to be integrated on Appomattox, Shell’s floating production system located in deepwater…
Byron Energy mobilized the Hercules 205 jackup drilling rig to the SM 6 #2 well location in the Gulf of Mexico last week, and expects to spud the well this week. Hercules 205. Image from Hercules Offshore…
Seatronics, an Acteon company and part of its survey, monitoring and data business, has announced the recruitment of Janelle Pence as vice president for the US region. Pence will be responsible for managing and developing Seatronics’…
Paragon Offshore is planning to file for bankruptcy this week in a deal that will eliminate more than US$1.1 billion of debt and reduce annual cash interest payments by nearly $60 million. Image from Paragon…
Transocean’s Deepwater Thalassa has commenced operations on its 10-year contract for Shell’s Stones project in the US Gulf of Mexico this month. The Deepwater Thalassa. Image from Transocean. Stones…
SBM Offshore says there are no signs of recovery before 2018, as the floating production specialist reduced its workforce by 3200 in 2015, with more job cuts expected this year. Image of the Cidade de Saquarema in Guanabara Bay…
Bristow Group has invested US$4.2 million in Sky-Futures, drone inspection data services provider for the oil and gas industry, giving Bristow immediate entry to the fast-growing UAV services business. Image from Sky-Futures…
Denmark's DONG Energy will take over an offshore New Jersey wind lease previously held by RES Americas Developments that had been awarded to RES in an auction held by the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in November 2015. The New Jersey lease encompasses 160…
In the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) oil market report for February 2016, signs of a demand slowdown surface, with higher OPEC output only partly offsetting non-OPEC decline. Having peaked, at a five-year high of 1.6 MMb/d in 2015…
Fugro and technology partner Areté Associates have successfully delivered near real-time, synoptic, surface current data to characterize loop current and loop current eddy conditions in the US Gulf of Mexico during a period of intense current conditions…
Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract by Deep Gulf Energy III for the development of the deepwater Southe Santa Cruz and Barataria fields, in 200m water depth in the Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. The contract consists of: Project management and engineering services…
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has fired Emilio Lozoya Austin as CEO at the country's state-owned oil company, Pemex. Lozoya will be replaced by José Antonio González Anaya (pictured), the country’s current director of the Social Security Institute (IMSS)…
National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) president, Randall Luthi, issued the following statement ahead of President Obama’s budget request: “The [US] is the global leader in oil and gas production and American consumers are enjoying the lowest gasoline prices in a decade…
Murphy Oil Corp. has elected to terminate the contract for the ultra-deepwater drillship Discoverer Deep Seas. The rig's contract was scheduled to end in November 2016. Transocean, which owns and operates the unit, says it will be compensated…