Deepwater
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May 31, 2018
Shell Offshore, Inc. (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has announced the early start of production at the first phase of Kaikias, an economically resilient, subsea development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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May 28, 2018
Total and its partners have taken the final investment decision to launch the Zinia 2 deep offshore development in Block 17, 150 km offshore Angola.
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May 24, 2018
Shell Offshore, Inc. has announced a large deepwater discovery in the Norphlet geologic play in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico with its Dover well (100% Shell).
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May 08, 2018
Energean Oil & Gas announced that it has received Class approval from DNV-GL, the global quality assurance body, for the Basic Design of the new-build Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) that will be deployed at its deepwater Karish-Tanin development, offshore Israel.
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May 01, 2018
The Big Oil playbook has been straightforward for decades: Higher prices mean offshore projects that are further, deeper, more complex than ever before. It’s different this time, according to Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
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April 26, 2018
BP has selected Nexans to supply umbilicals for the second stage development of the Mad Dog offshore field in the Gulf of Mexico.
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April 24, 2018
Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, today announces the final investment decision for Vito, a deepwater development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico with a forward-looking, break-even price estimated to be less than $35/bbl.
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April 20, 2018
BP and Reliance Industries announced the sanctioning of the “Satellite cluster” project in Block KG D6, offshore India.
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April 12, 2018
Fieldwood Energy LLC has announced the closing of its acquisition of all of Noble Energy, Inc.’s deepwater oil and gas assets located in the Gulf of Mexico with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2018.
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April 11, 2018
MCEDD, the premier deepwater conference, continued on Tuesday afternoon and into today in Milan, Italy, with a timely mid-day keynote examination of the future of ultra-deep offshore activity, accompanied by a full slate of technical presentations on a variety of technical subjects.
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April 10, 2018
The premier deepwater conference kicked off with a speech by EniProgetti CEO Luciano Vasques that outlined the challenges facing operators and service companies in the deepwater offshore market.
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April 02, 2018
ExxonMobil has increased its holdings in Brazil’s pre-salt basins after winning eight additional exploration blocks during Brazil’s 15th bid round.
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March 30, 2018
Shell Brasil Petroleo, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), today won four additional deep-water exploration blocks in the Campos and Potiguar basins, bringing its total operated presence offshore Brazil to 18 blocks.
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March 27, 2018
Chevron Corp. is studding the ocean floor with heavy-duty pumping gear as part of an effort to make deepwater oil discoveries competitive with shale.
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March 14, 2018
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited, the Atlantic margins focused oil and gas exploration company, has commenced drilling on the Rabat Deep Permits in Morocco.
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March 12, 2018
Petrobras has announced that it has started the opportunity disclosure stage regarding the transfer of Petrobras’ total stake in the Piranema and Piranema Sul fields.
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February 28, 2018
Analysis of Ghana’s upstream oil and gas industry shows that the country currently has 21 licensed blocks, of which 14 are in the ultra-deepwater terrain, five are in shallow water, and two in deepwater, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
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February 09, 2018
Total-led international consortium (Total 40%, ENI 40%, Novatek 20%) signed two Exploration and Production Agreements (EPA) with the Republic of Lebanon, covering Blocks 4 and 9, located in the deep waters offshore Lebanon.
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February 05, 2018
Oil and Natural Gas Corp. is facing a delay of at least a year in starting production from its biggest project, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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February 01, 2018
Eni and its partner Qatar Petroleum have been awarded rights to Block 24 located in the deep waters of the Cuenca Salina basin in Mexico.
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February 01, 2018
In the deepwater bid round for the Mexican Gulf of Mexico, Shell Exploración y Extracción de México, S.A. de C.V., (Shell) won four exploration blocks on its own, one with its partner Pemex Exploración y Producción and four with its partner Qatar Petroleum International Limited.
