Deepwater
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November 08, 2017
Abrado Wellbore Services, a multi-string section milling and wellbore clean-out specialist company, has secured its first projects in the West Africa region.
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November 03, 2017
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for wellbore 7219/12-2 A S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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November 02, 2017
Engie E&P, the operator of the Cara-license (PL 636) in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, is increasing the resource estimate. Engie E&P now estimates that the Cara discovery contains 56 to 94 MMboe.
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November 01, 2017
Commenting on two major North Sea deals completed within the past 24 hours, Deirdre Michie, chief executive at the industry trade association Oil & Gas UK, said the deals are "hugely significant."
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October 30, 2017
Aberdeen-based AISUS has invested a six-figure sum in upgrading and developing cutting edge inspection technology as it looks to further broaden its range of services and increase its geographical reach to provide its customers with the most efficient, cost-effective technological solutions.
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October 30, 2017
Plug & abandonment specialists HydraWell targets the oil and gas market with another cost-saving solution: plugging offshore wells without the support of a drilling rig.
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October 27, 2017
Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) and its partners won today three, 35-year production sharing contracts for pre-salt blocks located in the Santos basin, offshore Brazil.
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October 27, 2017
Statoil Brasil Oleo e Gas Ltd., a subsidiary of Statoil ASA, ExxonMobil Exploracao Brasil Ltda., a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corporation, and PETROGAL BRASIL, SA, a subsidiary of Galp, were the high bidders for a production sharing contract for the Carcará North Block in Brazil’s second pre-salt offshore licensing round held on Oct. 27.
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October 27, 2017
Avitas Systems, a GE Venture, announced a strategic partnership with Kraken Robotics to integrate autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), acoustic and laser sensor technology, and artificial intelligence-based navigation software into unique subsea inspection solutions for the oil and gas, offshore renewable energy, and shipping industries.
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October 26, 2017
Leaner and fitter after three years of low prices, oil majors are descending on Rio de Janeiro to join a deep-water bonanza that has already helped state-controlled Petrobras emerge from financial heartache.
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October 25, 2017
New Technology Showcase winners from the 2017 Louisiana Gulf Coast Oil Exposition (LAGCOE) in Lafayette, La., presented their award-winning tools and equipment during a technical session at the conference on Oct. 25.
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October 25, 2017
International oilfield services company, Expro, has successfully accomplished the world’s first proven wireless transmission of reservoir pressure data to surface, from a recently abandoned subsea appraisal well which incorporated a rock-to-rock cement plug, the company announced during LAGCOE 2017.
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October 25, 2017
Winds of change are afoot in the U.S. government’s energy-regulating bodies, and consequently, new access to the U.S. outer continental shelf (OCS) is on the horizon for oil and gas companies.
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October 24, 2017
One of the biggest topics at a recent industry event held by Lloyd’s Register was Shell’s new requirement for offshore containers. The audience at the event in Lafayette had plenty of questions regarding Shell’s decision to follow global trends and require independent certification of offshore container units.
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October 24, 2017
The U.S. Gulf of Mexico’s E&P industry has been through tremendous hardship since crude dropped in late 2014, and it’s imperative that companies change business models to sustain future deepwater U.S. oil production growth, according to Ryan Malone, BP’s projects general manager for the Gulf of Mexico.
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October 24, 2017
The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is on a mission to unlock a new wave of heavy investment for oil and gas production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, via renewed collaboration with offshore oil companies and refocused regulation.
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October 24, 2017
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has announced that the Department is proposing the largest oil and gas lease sale ever held in the United States--76,967,935 acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
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October 19, 2017
Lebanon reached an important milestone on Oct. 12, which was the deadline set for pre-qualified companies to submit their bids on the open blocks within the country’s first offshore licensing round.
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October 18, 2017
Transocean Ltd. is finally sending Pathfinder to its grave, after two years in a Caribbean purgatory that cost about $15,000 a day.
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October 17, 2017
FairfieldNodal’s project to acquire and process high-resolution 3D marine seismic for the Libra consortium has left port for deeper waters to begin work.
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October 12, 2017
Weatherford International plc today announced that it has been awarded a contract for plug and abandonment (P&A) services by Repsol Norge AS. The work will commence in October 2017 and is estimated to be completed over a period of three years.
