BP is facing more setbacks for its Great Australian Bight drilling program, following a further request from Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) for information on the environment plan…
Australia's National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has advised BP that it will be taking additional time to assess the company’s environment plan proposing to drill the Stromlo-1 and Whinham-1 exploration wells in the Great Australian Bight (GAB)…
Cathelco Middle East FZC based in Sharjah won an order to supply a marine growth prevention system (MGPS) for the latest in a series of jackup drilling rigs to be built by UAE-based Lamprell, a provider of fabrication, engineering and contracting services…
Oceaneering International has completed its acquisition of Meridian Ocean Services. Meridian uses remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to perform surveys on mobile offshore drilling units and floating production systems that satisfy the…
Drilling operations have been suspended at Husky Energy’s North Amethyst field offshore Canada, after a leak occurred today (15 July), according to the Canada-Newfoundland & Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB). The Henry Goodrich…
Australia's National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) is giving UK supermajor BP until the end of August to resubmit its modified environmental plan for exploration drilling at the Great Australian Bight that the offshore regulator rejected last year…
Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) has been awarded an offshore drilling contract in Tunisia by Numhyd. Drilling operations will be carried out with the GSP Jupiter, a cantilever type mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU). The rig is currently under preparation for the contract in Limassol…
India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) has set a new pre-monsoon rig move record offshore India, with the support of Aqualis Offshore, a specialized marine and offshore engineering consultancy. ONGC executed a total of 33 mobile offshore…
In the Commonwealth waters, there was a 49% increase in the number of injuries to the offshore workforce compared to 2014, says the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA), Australia’s Commonwealth statutory agency…
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine has entered into an agreement with Russian oil major, Rosneft, and Norwegian drilling equipment firm, MHWirth, to set up a Singapore incorporated joint venture company (JVCO). The shareholding of Keppel O&M…
Australia's National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) told oil major BP to modify and resubmit its environment plan for exploration drilling in the Great Australian Bight (GAB). NOPSEMA said if BP accepts what it described as 'an opportunity…
Drilling giant Transocean swung back into profit in Q1 2016, despite revenues having hemorrhaged compared to Q1 2015. Rig utilization was 51% in Q1, compared with 60% in the prior quarter, and 79% in the same period last year. Utilization is lowest in the ultra-deepwater floater segment…
Transocean, has opted to delay delivery, and final payments, on two dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater (UDW) drillships currently under construction at Sembcorp Marine's subsidiary Jurong Shipyard. The proprietary Jurong Espadon…
The repair of the Polyarnaya Zvezda and Severnoye Siyaniye, sixth generation semisubmersible mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), have been completed under the survey of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) at Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Shipyard in Yantai…
Nearly six years after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Hollywood is taking its shot at recounting the tragedy with a film due this fall aiming to tell the story on the fatal blowout and its aftermath. The oil spill, one of the largest environmental disasters in global history…
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