In 4Q 2014, Aberdeen-based Return To Scene, a subsidiary of SeaEnergy, completed project delivery of its first contract with Pemex. Capturing the Ku-S platform. Photo from Return2Scene. The…
National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) president, Randall Luthi, joined API’s Jack Gerard and IADC’s Stephen Coleville this morning to discuss improvements in offshore safety since the Macondo Well accident five years ago. Luthi’s…
While the countdown to Round One has dominated activities in the Mexican offshore sector over the past 12 months, there have still been other notable contracts awarded. Pemex’s Ku-S platform in the Bay of Campeche…
As Mexico’s energy industry slowly opens up to outside investment, the country’s industry is assured to look very different in the future from today. GlobalData’s Adrian Lara and Will Scargill examine the details. Pemex has had a monopoly…
Apache agreed to sell its Australian subsidiary Apache Energy Ltd. to a consortium of private equity funds managed by Macquarie Capital Group Ltd. and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. for cash payment of $2.1 billion. With the sale, the company…
ABS’ Henrique Paula provides insight into the secondary laws – CNH, CRE, and ASEA – being used to implement Mexico’s energy reforms. The ABS-classed Centenario semisub drilling unit, built in 2010…
Dallas Parker and Gabriel Salinas, of law firm Mayer Brown, explain the main points of Mexico’s new exploration and production contracts, as well as the Hydrocarbons law and Hydrocarbons Revenues Law that became effective August 2014. Pemex’s…
Statoil made an oil discovery at Walker Ridge’s Yeti in deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Yeti map. From Statoil. The Yeti exploration well is located in Walker Ridge Block 160, approximately 15km south of Chevron’s Big Foot field…
Semco Maritime restructured part of its Aberdeen team with three new appointments. Brian Donaldson has been appointed business development manager, while Colin Stewart and Gustav Ferrao have been appointed assistant accountant and senior systems engineer…
Hess Corp. will host a visit on 9 April of a bipartisan Congressional Delegation to its Tubular Bells oil and gas production facility, located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Tubular Bells…
French super major Total has awarded the marine warranty services (MWS) contract for its Kaombo project offshore Angola to DNV GL. The Kaombo, in Block 32, in 1400-1950m water depth, about 150km offshore Angola, comprises six fields (Gindungo…
Dubai-based Drydocks World has completed a rig refurbishment project on Abu Dhabi-based National Drilling Company’s (NDC) offshore drilling rig jackup Beynouna in record time. The work on rig Beynouna, which included dry docking, hull treatment…
UK-based Falklands explorer Premier Oil has spudded its second 2015 exploration campaign well in the north Falklands basin. The Eirik Raude. From Ocean Rig. If successful, the 14/20…
Africa-focused proprietary investment firm L.A.T. Cleveson (LATC) signed an order with Damen Shipyards Group for two PSV 3300 platform supply vessels and two FCS 5009 fast supplier vessels. This order will bring next generation Damen…
David Shields provides a glance at Mexico’s energy reform and Round One. Pemex’s Ku-S platform at the Ku Maloob Zaap oil field in the Bay of Campeche. Image from Return To Scene. Round One…
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