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ConocoPhillips cancels Ensco drillship

Jul 17, 2015

Houston-based ConocoPhillips terminated its order for the recently delivered Ensco DS-9 deepwater drillship in concurrence to its plans to reduce future capital expenditures in deepwater exploration. The Ensco DS-9…

Castex starts drilling offshore Louisiana

Jul 16, 2015

Image: Hummer drilling operations/Petsec Energy Castex Offshore Inc. commenced drilling the Main Pass Block 270 #3 well. The exploratory well is being drilled in federal offshore waters on Petsec’s Hummer prospect…

BOEM to offer 22 million acres for GoM development

Jul 16, 2015

As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper announced that the bureau will offer approximately 21…

EMGS in Mexico multi-client survey

Jul 16, 2015

Mexico's Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) authorized permits for Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) to acquire about 88,000sq km of 3D electromagnetic (EM) multi-client data over a five-year period off Southern Mexico. SENER’s…

Genesis to acquire GoM pipeline business for US$1.5 billion

Jul 16, 2015

Enterprise Products Partners LP executed definitive agreements to sell its offshore Gulf of Mexico pipelines and services business to Genesis Energy, LP for approximately US$1.5 billion in cash. Image from Enterprise…

Talos consortia only Round One winner

Jul 16, 2015

The Talos Energy, Sierra Oil & Gas, and Premier Oil joint venture was the only winner at Mexico’s historic Round One, in which the consortia was awarded two blocks. Map of Blocks 2 and 7. From Premier…

ARKeX gets east coast survey permit

Jul 15, 2015

ARKeX announced it has been awarded the first geological and geophysical oil and gas exploration permit by the Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM).  The ARKeX survey will acquire an airborne broadband gravity and magnetic survey over Outer…

Aker bags Hebron work

Jul 15, 2015

Aker Solutions has won a maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) contract from ExxonMobil for engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance services at the Hebron oilfield offshore Canada. The Hebron oil field is located offshore Newfoundland and Labrador…

SBM Offshore sells Turritella stake

Jul 15, 2015

SBM Offshore has divested a 45% stake in the FPSO Turritella to Mitsubishi Corp. (MC) and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line). MC purchased 30% stake and NYK Line purchased 15% stake in the joint venture companies incorporated for the purpose of owning and operating the vessel…

Mexico's bleak Round One ends

Jul 15, 2015

Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) opened the first public tender process early this morning (15 July) in the country's historic and disappointing Round One that offered Mexico's upstream opportunities to international companies for the first time in decades…

Schlumberger first to receive SEMS certification

Jul 14, 2015

The Center for Offshore Safety (COS) announced that Schlumberger is the first service/supply contractor to achieve the voluntary COS member certification of its safety and environmental management systems (SEMS).  SEMS, which focuses on establishing…

ProSep awarded PEMEX contract

Jul 13, 2015

Houston-headquartered ProSep, an oil, gas and water treatment specialist, has been awarded a contract with PEMEX to supply its ProBlend mixer technology. The six-month project – awarded through ProSep’s in-country agent AGA Process – will…

PEMEX bows out of Round One

Jul 10, 2015

Mexico’s national oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is joining a list of international oil and gas companies by opting out of Mexico’s historic Round One. Image from PEMEX. At an event in Mexico City…

Photos: Heidelberg spar upended

Jul 10, 2015

Anadarko recently completed the successful upending of its massive 23,000-ton Heidelberg floating spar in 5300ft water depth, in Grand Canyon block 859, about 140mi off the coast of Louisiana. The 80 MMscf/d capacity Heidelberg truss spar is the second of Anadarko’s “design one…

Pacific Rubiales buyout off the table

Jul 09, 2015

Mexico’s ALFA S.A.B. and US-based Harbour Energy are terminating the proposed US$5.3 billion acquisition of Toronto-based Pacific Rubiales Energy. Image from Pacific Rubiales.  'The…

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