Oceaneering International agreed to acquire C & C Technologies, Inc. (C&C), a provider of survey services, for approximately US$230 million in cash. Headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, C&C Technologies offers ocean-bottom mapping services…
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released the draft supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) for the US Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of Mexico map. From BOEM. The…
GE has launched GE Marine, a new organization focusing on the merchant, offshore and naval industries, to be led by Tim Schweikert, VP, GE Marine. This new organization brings together GE’s commercial and technological expertise in the…
Marine Well Containment Co. (MWCC) received delivery of its expanded containment system (ECS) for operations in the US Gulf of Mexico. MWCC Containment System in a 'cap and flow' scenario. From MWCC…
Seaway Heavy Lifting installed the last three topsides in one week for Pemex using its crane vessel Oleg Strashnov in the Gulf of Mexico. Out of a string of jackets and topsides in the Gulf of Mexico the last topside was installed on 28 January in the Bay of Campeche…
The Research & Development Corp. (RDC) is investing US$4.9 million in a multi-purpose survey, support and research and development vessel to be stationed in St John’s. The total cost to design, build and operate such a vessel over a 10…
Super major Shell is curtailing its spending by more than US$15 billion over the next three years and has futher options to reduce spending, the supermajor announced this morning, citing the dramatic, nearly 60% drop in oil prices over the past six months…
A team of US and UK supermajors led by Chevron are exploring and appraising 24 jointly-help offshore leases in the northwest portion of Keathley Canyon in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Image from BP. The deal between Chevron…
BG Group has signed a six-year global alliance with KBR to provide technical support, services (in both the pre-FEED and FEED stages), and project management expertise across BG Group’s global upstream portfolio. Under the agreement, which has options to extend up to 10 years…
The US Department of the Interior today (Tuesday) announced details of a proposed oil and gas leasing program for 2017-2022. US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell (pictured, right, with President Obama) and Bureau of Ocean Energy…
McDermott’s Derrick Barge 50 (DB50) completed the installation of a drilling and production platform that included the heavy lift of a 3250-tonne jacket in the Gulf of Mexico. The DB50 installation…
Hess shows the carefully staged choreography of 14 cranes as they hoisted the 1000-tonne Tubular Bells main deck 100ft in the air to set it into place atop the production and cellar decks at a Houma, Louisiana fabrication facility. The Tubular…
Technip won two contracts for flexible pipe supply and installation at the Amethyst field, in Mississippi Canyon 26, in the US Gulf of Mexico. The Deep Blue. From Technip. Both contracts are for operator Stone Energy…
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) responded to an Energy XXI, GOM-operated platform that was damaged by a fire in South Timbalier (ST) Block 27 in the Gulf of Mexico. The unmanned ST 27 IA platform…
Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE) announced the official opening of its new manufacturing facility in Brenham, Texas on 12 February 12 2015. The new site, which began production in November 2014, manufactures high performance compression…
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