Deepwater
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April 03, 2019
Maersk Drilling has announced that the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible Mærsk Deliverer has been awarded a three-year contract by Inpex Australia and joint venture participants for drilling at the Ichthys gas and condensate field in the Browse Basin offshore Western Australia.
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March 26, 2019
Weatherford International plc has brought to market the world's first remote-activated, single-trip deepwater completion system.
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March 26, 2019
Total SA’s discovery of South Africa’s first oil in deep water could prove to be a bonanza for a country lacking crude reserves of its own and prompt a rush from other majors. That’s if they’re able to solve the engineering challenges of operating in one of the fastest ocean currents in the world.
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March 13, 2019
Eni announces a major oil discovery in Block 15/06, in the Agogo exploration prospect, in Angola’s deep water.
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March 13, 2019
Exceed, a well management and performance improvement specialist, continues to consolidate its West African presence, by announcing the company’s first contract to be undertaken offshore Guinea Bissau.
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March 08, 2019
ADES International Holding PLC, a leading oil & gas drilling and production services provider in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), is pleased to announce that it has entered, through its subsidiary ADES S.A.E., into a short-term exploration contract with Dana Gas for deepwater drilling services in the Egyptian Mediterranean basin.
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March 04, 2019
Aker Energy, as the operator of the Deepwater Tano Cape Three Points (DWT/CTP) Block, announces that it encountered oil in the Pecan South-1A well, offshore Ghana.
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February 27, 2019
Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. said it’s nearly doubling rental rates for deepwater drillships as oil explorers return to sea.
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February 20, 2019
Benthic, a global geosciences company, partnered with Asian Geos Sdn Bhd (Asian Geos), has successfully completed its geotechnical investigation in the Limbayong Field, offshore East Malaysia for PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PETRONAS Carigali).
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February 13, 2019
Rowan Companies plc has announced that the Rowan Renaissance, an R-Class ultra-deepwater drillship, has been awarded a one-well contract in Mexico by PC Carigali Mexico Operations, S.A. de C.V. for an estimated duration of 80 days that is expected to commence in the second quarter of 2019.
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February 12, 2019
Sentinel Midstream has announced its planned development of Texas GulfLink, a proposed Deepwater Crude Oil Export Terminal, located near Freeport, Texas
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February 06, 2019
Airborne Oil & Gas announces that Renato Bastos has joined Airborne Oil & Gas, as V.P. Brazil, strengthening its presence in Brazil.
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February 01, 2019
Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. and consortium partners have announced the start of production at the Lula North deepwater project in the Brazilian Santos Basin.
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January 28, 2019
McDermott International, Inc. has announced a sizeable contract award by LLOG Exploration Company, L.L.C. for deepwater subsea pipeline tiebacks and structures from the Stonefly development to the Ram Powell platform.
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January 16, 2019
Airborne Oil & Gas B.V. has been awarded a contract from TOTAL to supply a TCP (Thermoplastic Composite Pipe) Jumper for a deepwater project in West Africa.
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January 08, 2019
Danos has secured a contract with Equinor for production operation support on its Titan SPAR platform, located in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
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December 31, 2018
Transocean Ltd. has announced that it has signed a rig design and construction management contract, as well as a five-year drilling contract, with Chevron USA, Inc. for one of its two dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater drillships currently under construction at the Jurong shipyard in Singapore.
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December 18, 2018
Angola’s Sonangol and BP today signed an agreement to progress to final investment decision the development of the Platina field in deepwater Block 18, offshore Angola.
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December 12, 2018
AFGlobal and MHWirth have entered into a distribution agreement, providing the managed pressure drilling market with a comprehensive package for deepwater rig systems.
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December 11, 2018
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement recently conducted its final pre-production inspection of Chevron’s Big Foot tension leg platform, moored in the Gulf of Mexico about 225 mi south of New Orleans.
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December 03, 2018
Rowan Companies plc has announced that ExxonMobil has exercised the first two options for the Rowan Relentless, an R-Class ultra-deepwater drillship.
