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 ...
read more →Singapore:Viking O&M Plans to Increase its ...
Viking Offshore & Marine (O&M) is aiming to grow its international revenues to 60 per cent of its overall ...
read more →Cote d’ Ivoire: Lukoil Declares Drilling Orca ...
Vanco, along with partners Lukoil and the state oil company Petroci, has completed drilling the Orca exploration ...
read more →Statoil gives Seadrill a Letter of Intent for Drilling ...
Seadrill has a letter of intent from Statoil for a new harsh environment jackup to drill on the Norwegian ...
read more →Malaysia: Kencana Petroleum Secures Service Contract ...
Kencana Petroleum Bhd announced today that one of its companies has secured a service contract for the supply of ...
read more →Apache Corp. Buys Mariner Energy Inc. for $4 billion in ...
U.S. energy firm Apache Corp. (APA) has agreed to acquire Texas-based oil and natural gas explorer Mariner Energy ...
read more →Keppel Delivers DSSTM 21 Deepwater Semisumersible to ...
Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS) has delivered the third DSSTM 21 deepwater semisubmersible (semi) drilling rig to ...
read more →Exxon Drills Longest Ever Extended-Reach Well From ...
Exxon Mobil Corp. has set another record, and this time it has nothing to do with its annual profits. The ...
read more →New Zealand: AWE Ltd. Reports on Hoki-1 Well
AWE Limited reports that at 0600 hours (NZ Time) today, the Hoki-1 well, located in exploration permit PEP 38401 in ...
read more →Polarcus Asima, Company’s Most sophisticated 3D ...
Polarcus Limited held the naming ceremony for the Company’s third and most sophisticated 3D seismic vessel ...
read more →UK: EnerMech Ltd. Pay $11 million to Buy Norson Power
Hydraulics engineering firm Norson Power has been acquired by mechanical services company EnerMech Ltd in an £11 ...
read more →Israel: Several Firms to Bid for Benjamin offshore gas ...
Several firms, including foreigners, are considering bids for the offshore license. ACC Group, headed by Chaim ...
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