Deepwater
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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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October 11, 2018
The world's deepest installation of a CAN-ductor (Conductor Anchor Node suction pile with integrated conductor) well foundation has been completed after being successfully recovered from Woodside Energy's Ferrand-1 deepwater exploration well.
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September 28, 2018
ExxonMobil has increased its holdings in Brazil’s pre-salt basins after it won the Titã exploration block with co-venturer Qatar Petroleum during Brazil’s 5th pre-salt bid round.
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September 25, 2018
Aker Energy and Maersk Drilling have agreed upon a new contract that will send deepwater drillship Maersk Viking from the Gulf of Mexico to Ghana to start drilling an appraisal well during fourth-quarter 2018.
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September 24, 2018
Deep-sea oil drillers are once again riding the wave of investor enthusiasm that next year will be better for profits.
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September 06, 2018
Fugro has won three contracts with BHP Petroleum (Deepwater) Inc., which see the company delivering a range of specialist services to support exploration and production operations in Trinidad and Tobago and the Gulf of Mexico.
