Popular news, April 20 – 26, 2015

Last week was all about thirty fourth IHS CERAWeek conference in Houston, so naturally some of the most read articles on Offshore Energy Today include the stories reported by our team attending the conference.
The speech made by Statoil’s CEO Eldar Sætre during IHS CERAWeek conference tops our list of the most read articles during the week. Next up was Schlumberger’s announcement about a new round of job cuts that will affect staggering 11.000 jobs.
You also read about the fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Transocean’s latest fleet update, Senator Murkowski’s speech during IHS CERAWeek, Maersk Drilling’s appointment of new COO, and our report about job cuts at GE Oil & Gas.
Scroll down for more popular news of the week:
Statoil CEO: Our industry has bad memory
Schlumberger cuts 11.000 more jobs
Deepwater Horizon: Five years later
Transocean: Two contracts in, one out, one rig to the scrapyard
Sen. Murkowski: U.S. sanctioning itself by lifting sanctions against Iranian oil
Maersk Drilling picks new COO from Baker Hughes’ rows
Report: GE Oil & Gas to cut jobs to reduce costs
ConocoPhillips to plug and abandon wells in Gulf of Mexico and Angola
IHS CERAWeek 2015: Industry is in survival mode, ConocoPhillips CEO says
Offshore Energy Today Staff