Deepwater

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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.
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November 28, 2018
BP has announced that the new floating production unit for the Mad Dog 2 project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico will be named Argos.
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November 21, 2018
Chevron Corporation has announced that the Chevron-operated Big Foot deepwater project, located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, has started crude oil and natural gas production.
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November 12, 2018
Weatherford International plc has introduced Vero automated connection integrity, which applies artificial intelligence to minimize safety risks and validate well integrity with absolute certainty.
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November 11, 2018
The Angolan State Minister for Economic and Social Development, Manuel Nunes Junior, the Chairman and CEO of Total, Patrick Pouyanné, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sonangol, Carlos Saturnino, inaugurated the Kaombo project
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October 24, 2018
New, deepwater production is underway today at Lula Extreme South in the Brazilian Santos basin. Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. (Shell) and consortium partners, announces that the FPSO P-69 is now producing.
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October 24, 2018
Exxon Mobil resumed talks with Ghana Oil as the major nears a deadline to find a local exploration partner at an offshore field.
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October 19, 2018
JupiterMLP has secured funding from Charon System Advisors to build a 1 MMbpd oil pipeline from the Permian basin to the Port of Brownsville, Texas.
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