Subsea7 will be responsible for transporting and installing flexible pipelines, umbilicals, and associated subsea components for the connection of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel as well as the pre-laying activities for an upcoming drilling campaign. SourceContinue Reading
Chevron Corp. and local authorities in Angola are searching for a missing worker after a fire broke out on a deepwater oil platform. The fire occurred while the platform was undergoing scheduled maintenance, injuring 17 people, including four who suffered severe injuries. SourceContinue Reading
DOF Group ASA has secured four long-term charter and service contract awards with Petrobras in Brazil following a competitive tender process. The combined value of the contracts is approximately $480 million USD. SourceContinue Reading
U.S. officials from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have lifted the stop-work order for Equinor’s Empire Wind project, offshore New York. “I would like to thank President Trump for finding a solution that provides for continued investments in energy infrastructure in the U.S.,” said Anders Opedal, President and CEO of Equinor ASA. SourceContinue Reading
Venezuela released an American citizen on the same day the U.S. was set to give Chevron another 60-day waiver to operate in the country, part of a push by President Nicolas Maduro’s government and the Trump administration to improve ties. SourceContinue Reading
Leaders from the American Petroleum Institute and National Ocean Industries Association today voiced their support of the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service’s release of a new biological opinion for the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico. SourceContinue Reading
Law firm Haynes Boone defended The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), now known as Renaissance Africa Energy Company (RAEC), against a $58 million lawsuit, securing a complete dismissal in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. SourceContinue Reading
SLB has launched Retina™ at-bit imaging, a first-of-its-kind solution which enables identification of formation characteristics. Retina addresses the limitations of traditional imagers, which are often restricted by operational factors like drilling fluid type and wellbore damage, SLB stated. SourceContinue Reading
U.S. officials from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have lifted the stop-work order for Equinor’s Empire Wind project, offshore New York. “I would like to thank President Trump for finding a solution that provides for continued investments in energy infrastructure in the U.S.,” said Anders Opedal, President and CEO of Equinor ASA. SourceContinue Reading
The Railroad Commission of Texas recently trained more than 300 employees in Phase I of the agency’s Boots on the Ground initiative. The goal of the program is to bring more consistency across all the agency’s oil and gas districts. SourceContinue Reading
