Subsea 7 S.A. today announced a contract award by Anadarko and their partners for the Heidelberg development in the Gulf of Mexico. The work scope includes the engineering, fabrication, and installation of risers, pipelines, and flowlines in water depths over 1,600 metres. Project management and engineering will commence immediately at Subsea 7’s offices in Houston. [...]
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Director James Watson and U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Joseph Servidio announced yesterday at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas a new Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that will strengthen the working relationship between their two agencies on the management of safety and environmental protection responsibilities on the [...]
Mechanical engineering group EnerMech announced at OTC in Houston that it has invested more than £13 million ($20.2m) as it steps up its drive to cement its presence in the US and Mexico. A recent move to a new 50,000 sq ft workshop, office and storage facility near to Houston’s Energy Corridor has been followed [...]
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Friday visited an offshore drilling rig and production platform in the Gulf of Mexico, capping a two-day visit to the Department’s regional offices that oversee oil and gas development in federal waters. Earlier, Secretary Jewell met with Interior employees, praising them for their professionalism and commitment to their [...]
CDC has, in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), published an analysis of Fatal Injuries in Offshore Oil and Gas Operations — United States, 2003–2010. During 2003–2010, the U.S. oil and gas extraction industry (onshore and offshore, combined) had a collective fatality rate seven times higher than for all U.S. workers (27.1 versus 3.8 deaths per 100,000 [...]
After speaking directly with Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew on the importance of the oil and gas industry to the Alaska and U.S. economies, U.S. Sen. Mark Begich introduced legislation that would share federal energy revenues generated off Alaska’s coasts with Alaska’s state and local governments as well as Alaska’s Native peoples. “This is just [...]
BP yesterday announced that the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has accepted the company’s plea resolving all federal criminal charges against the company stemming from the Deepwater Horizon accident, oil spill, and response. The company offered its plea to the Court and was sentenced in connection with the agreement BP reached [...]
The ultra-deepwater drillship, Titanium Explorer, started its drilling contract with Brazil’s Petrobras in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, on Friday, December 7. The Titanium Explorer, formerly known as the Dragonquest, owned by Vantage Drilling, is contracted for eight years. Under the contract, Brazilian-state controlled oil company Petrobras has the right to re-locate and utilize the [...]
International offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation on Thursday, December 6, announced that the company has secured a new contract for its Noble Driller rig in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The semi-submersible drilling rig of Aker H-3 Twin Hull S1289 Column type has been hired by Marubeni Oil & Gas at a dayrate of $405.000. [...]
BP was quick to react after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued a press release in which it said that the British oil giant would be temporary banned from making new arrangements with the federal government. In a statement issued on its website BP highlighted that the temporary suspension relates only to future potential [...]
