Middle East: KTL Global Plans to Set Up Rigging and ...
KTL Global, the supplier of rigging equipment to the offshore oil and gas (O&G) sector, says it will invest $6 ...
read more →India: Aban Offshore Adds Amendment to Deep Venture Contract
Aban Offshore today announced that `Venture Drilling (a 50% indirect joint venture of the company) and Maersk Oil ...
read more →UK: Northern Offshore Ltd. Receives Contract for Energy ...
Northern Offshore UK, a subsidiary of Northern Offshore, which is engaged in the provision of offshore contract ...
read more →Deepwater Horizon Rig Sinks in Explosion. 11 Workers ...
Crews searched by air and water for 11 workers still missing from the Deepwater Horizon, though one relative said ...
read more →509 Oil Rig Fire Outbursts since 2006
Nine major oil rig fires have killed at least two people and seriously injured 12 since 2006 in the Gulf of Mexico, ...
read more →Somali Pirates Responsible for 35 Piracy Incidents in 2010
Somali pirates were responsible for 35 of the 67 piracy incidents reported worldwide during the first quarter of ...
read more →Deepwater Horizon Fire: 11 Workers Still Missing
At approximately 10 p.m. (CST) Tuesday night, an explosion rocked Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon ...
read more →OPEC: Positive Forecast for Latin America Countries ...
Oil production in Latin American countries outside of the OPEC cartel and Mexico should average 4.66Mb/d in 2010, ...
read more →India: Great Offshore Ltd. Reports 2.38 Per Cent in Net ...
Integrated offshore oilfield services provider Great Offshore on Tuesday reported a marginal growth of 2.38 per ...
read more →Singapore: Seadrill Delivers West Orion Semisub 10 days ...
Seadrill today took delivery of the new deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig West Orion from the Jurong Shipyard ...
read more →Transocean Declares Start of Trading on SIX Swiss Exchange
Transocean, the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor, has announced that its shares will begin ...
read more →USA: Transocean’s Rig Deepwater Horizon Caught by Fire
Transocean Ltd. today reported a fire onboard its semisubmersible drilling rig Deepwater Horizon. The incident ...
read more →Japan: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Completes ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has completed a new development related to floating production, storage and ...
read more →Greece: Tsakos to Sign $620 M Contract for New ...
Tsakos Energy Navigation is reportedly close to signing a contract worth US$620 million for a new ultra-deepwater ...
read more →Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Spectrum Starts Fourth Phase of ...
Oil services company Spectrum said it has started the fourth phase of its seismic programme in the eastern Gulf of ...
read more →Brasil: Aker Solutions Signs $300 M Contract with Petrobras
Aker Solutions has signed a frame agreement with Petrobras to supply 40 subsea trees for the Iara and Guará fields, ...
read more →North Sea Oil Rig Helicopter Flights Partially Resume
Flight restrictions affecting Helicopter flights to offshore oil platforms in the UK and Norwegian sectors of the ...
read more →USA: Baker Hughes Inc.- Rigs Number Reaches 1,491
The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by 15 this week to 1,491. ...
read more →USA: Seismic Companies Wait for New Offshore Spots to Open
Seismic companies that map vast areas beneath the ocean floor for oil and gas deposits won’t be trolling ...
read more →North Sea: EDSA to Deploy New Groundbreaking System to ...
EDSA,the leading developer of power analytics solutions for the design, testing, and management of complex ...
read more →China-Based Yangzijiang Shipbuilders to Buy PPL ...
Yangzijiang Shipbuilders, together with its nonexecutive director Yu Kebing and an unnamed Middle East investor, ...
read more →USA: Lockhead Martin Thinks Big with OTEC
Lockheed Martin is progressing with Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. Known as OTEC, this technology leverages the ...
read more →USA: Salazar Reveals Research Plan for Drilling ...
Federal scientists have until Oct. 1 to decide what additional research is needed to determine the effects of ...
read more →China: CNOOC Finds Considerable Oil Reserves in Eastern ...
CNOOC Limited announced today that the Company has successfully made an important new discovery — Penglai(PL)9-1 in ...
read more →Angola: Dresser Masoneilan Announced ESD supplier for ...
Dresser Masoneilan today announced that it has been named the emergency shutdown device (ESD) supplier for ...
read more →Gulf of Mexico: ATP Granted a Lease for Offshore ...
ATP Oil & Gas Corp. said that the Minerals Management Service has accepted ATP’s bid of $232,100 for ...
read more →Norway: Det Norske Makes Significant Oil Discovery on ...
Det norske has made an oil discovery in exploration well 25/1-11 on Storklakken in PL 460. A nine meter oil column ...
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