Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) today announced that Robert Douglas (“Doug”) Lawler, 46, Senior Vice President, International and Deepwater Operations at Anadarko Petroleum, will join Chesapeake as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, effective June 17. Lawler is a petroleum engineer with 25 years of experience in the upstream Exploration [...]
Brazil’s national oil company Petrobras presents long-term technological strategy for deepwater production. Executive emphasizes, at the OTC, the importance of the company’s partnership with universities and suppliers
The Pazflor deep offshore development in Angola, with the world’s largest FPSO, received a Distinguished Achievement Award at the Offshore Technology Conference.
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Tata Steel will demonstrate its ability to deliver pipeline solutions to some of the world’s most challenging and complex projects at this year’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston May 6-9 2013. As global demand for key energy sources increases and the search for hydrocarbons takes the industry into deeper and more difficult environments, Tata [...]
Over the next five years, Quest expects an 88% growth in floating production system (FPS) award levels illustrating a strong resurgence of investment in high-capital, major deep water developments. This growth coupled with current high levels of offshore rig construction will buoy oil & gas related utilization of major offshore fabrication shipyards to record levels. [...]
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Wood Mackenzie’s economic assessment of Nigeria’s proposed fiscal changes reveals gas and deepwater projects would be hardest hit.
Italy’s oil and gas company Eni announced today it has been awarded a deepwater exploration block (Block 9) in the Eastern Mediterranean of Egypt within the EGAS 2012 International bid round in Cairo (Egypt). Through its fully owned affiliate, IEOC, Eni will act as Operator of Block 9 with 100% equity. Block 9, also named [...]
API Director of Standards David Miller announced yesterday the publication of two new oil and natural gas industry standards for well design and drilling operations. “Every industry standard we develop shares the goal of safely and responsibly producing more of the energy America needs,” said Miller. “These new guidelines will help the industry to continue [...]
Cobalt International Energy, Inc. on Tuesday announced extraordinary results from its Shenandoah #2R appraisal well, located in Walker Ridge Block 51, and provided an update on its North Platte #1 exploratory well, located in Garden Banks 959, both located in the Inboard Lower Tertiary Trend, deepwater Gulf of Mexico. At Shenandoah, the well’s operator announced [...]
Dril-Quip, Inc. today announced that Dril-Quip Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, its wholly owned subsidiary, in conjunction with its local representative UMW Petrodril (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., has been awarded a contract to supply drilling and production equipment and related services to Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Limited for the Shell Malikai TLP project located offshore Malaysia in [...]
