Gulf Of Mexico News


Seaway nets Perla job offshore Venezuala

Apr 08, 2015

Seaway Heavy Lifting entered into a contract with Cardon IV in Venezuela for transportation and installation of the Perla project gas production platforms complete with tie-in of the subsea infrastructure.  The Perla development consists…

PEMEX to restore Abkatún production

Apr 06, 2015

After a fire that killed four workers, with three still missing, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) began to restore production at the Abkatún central processing platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Abkatún A. From PEMEX Flickr…

Island Performer docks in New Orleans

Apr 03, 2015

As the last throes of winter ushered in the grey, misty weather upon the mighty Mississippi River in early March, a soon to be familiar visitor in the Gulf of Mexico sat docked at the Port of New Orleans, Island Offshore’s newbuild subsea support vessel Island Performer…

Lewek Constellation in Rotterdam

Apr 02, 2015

On 1 March, EMAS AMC officially christened and named its flagship, the Lewek Constellation, prior to her departure to the Gulf of Mexico to start work for Noble Energy. EMAS AMC’s Lewek Constellation…

RWLI makes its mark

Apr 01, 2015

Ask about subsea well intervention and most assume it’s riserless light well intervention you want to talk about – for good reason. Elaine Maslin reports. Subsea light well intervention visualized by FMC Technologies…

BMT monitoring for Stampede

Apr 01, 2015

BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT) is to supply an integrated marine monitoring system (IMMS) for Hess' Stampede tension leg platform (TLP) in the US Gulf of Mexico. The system includes instrumentation to measure the environmental conditions…

Intervening on Pompano

Apr 01, 2015

Unique fields deserve equally unique intervention solutions when production begins to wane, this was the challenge Stone Energy had to meet when it contracted Cross Group to develop new methodology and technology for its Pompano subsea production template…

Pushing the technology boundaries

Apr 01, 2015

Sir Ian’s Wood Report, published last year, identified technology as an integral component to ensuring the success of maximizing the economic recovery of the UK Continental Shelf (MER UK).    As the Wood Report states, new field discoveries…

Oceangoing giants

Apr 01, 2015

Rotterdam was home to three giants of the sea in early March – offshore industry flagships, not least Allseas’ newly renamed Pioneering Spirit. Elaine Maslin took a tour. Pioneering Spirit’s lifting beams loom from its bows…

Rapp Marine delivering 150-tonne crane

Mar 31, 2015

Rapp Marine will deliver its largest engineered crane for one of Otto Candies’ vessels. The 150-tonne active heave compensation (AHC) crane will be capable of lifting 150-tonne at 17m, and will be certified by Lloyd’s registry. It will…

McDermott lands Jack St Malo gig

Mar 31, 2015

McDermott International has been awarded a contract to transport and install subsea umbilicals, manifolds, jumpers and flying leads for Chevron to support the brownfield expansion of the Jack and St. Malo fields in the US Gulf of Mexico. Image from Chevron…

ExxonMobil starts at Hadrian South

Mar 30, 2015

ExxonMobil began production at its deepest subsea tie-back, Hadrian South in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Image from ExxonMobil.   Hadrian South is located about 230mi offshore in the…

Post-Macondo EU cannot be complacent

Mar 27, 2015

Mediterranean countries cannot be naive about the industrial risks around oil and gas exploration and production, delegates at the Offshore Mediterranean Conference (OMC) in Ravenna were warned this morning. The region, which comprises EU member states as well as non-member states…

Fugro takes delivery of newbuild

Mar 24, 2015

Fugro took delivery of the Fugro Americas, a newbuild shallow draft survey vessel this month. The Fugro Americas. From Fugro.   Custom designed to Fugro’s specifications, the vessel…

Schlumberger completes GOM shoot

Mar 23, 2015

Schlumberger has completed the acquisition of about 2750sq km of two new full-azimuth multiclient seismic surveys over the Garden Banks and Green Canyon areas in the Gulf of Mexico. Both shoots are the initial phase of the Revolution X and Revolution XI surveys and will provide full-azimuth…

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