Houston-based oilfield services provider Halliburton has selected its current president, Jeff Miller, to succeed CEO Dave Lesar, effective 1 June 2017. Miller will serve as both president and CEO. Image of Miller…
Wood Group has signed a 10-year master services agreement (MSA) with Chevron that allows them to deliver conceptual engineering, pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED), FEED, detailed design and procurement services in multiple locations…
Oceaneering International will support the design, fabrication and installation of ancillary flowline hardware at Royal Dutch Shell’s Appomattox development in the Gulf of Mexico. Under the contract, Oceaneering will procure and install pre-lay and post-lay crossing mattresses…
A recent Wood Mackenzie survey finds that 80% of oil and gas operators expect oil prices to reach the US$50-$60/bbl range this year. Despite optimism over oil prices, survey respondents remain very cautious right now, with little appetite for risk…
LQT Industries has been awarded multiple Gulf of Mexico projects including aluminum accommodation rental packages, construction, and refurbishment projects. LQT is providing aluminum accommodation packages for major oil and gas operators on two separate offshore platforms…
Premier Oil says it will begin a short subsea tie-in campaign next month at the Varadero prospect, as its Catcher project remains on track to deliver first oil later this year. Image from Premier Oil Premier…
Avangrid Renewables and Vineyard Wind have formed a strategic partnership to jointly develop a large scale wind energy project off the coast of Massachusetts. Last summer, Massachusetts required utilities to procure 1600 MW of clean…
Gulf of Mexico operators BP and Murphy Oil sing the praises of a new below US$50/bbl breakeven world at this year’s OTC Houston. Audrey Leon reports. Image of Morrison presenting at OTC. Images from OTC…
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) is moving forward with its evaluations from six companies to conduct geological and geophysical (G&G) activities in the Atlantic Ocean, as part of the Trump Administration’s 'America First' offshore energy strategy…
Anadarko Petroleum named Daniel E. Brown executive VP, International and Deepwater Operations. Darrell E. Hollek, formerly executive vice president, Operations, will serve as a senior adviser until his retirement later this year. Brown began his career with the company in 1998…
Illustration of RAR Plus, from Delmar. Delmar Systems unveiled the new RAR Plus and the MOORMax Releasable Mooring System. The RAR Plus is the next generation of Rig Anchor Release (RAR)…
TGS and Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) have expanded their jointly owned multi-client library offshore Eastern Canada. Map of Cape Broyle 3D, from TGS. The new Cape Broyle 3D survey…
Image from Weatherford. Weatherford International has commercially released the ForeSite production optimization platform at the Weatherford Enterprise Software Conference. The ForeSite…
Cobalt International Energy has opened a data room for its deepwater US Gulf of Mexico North Platte field as it announced the latest appraisal well drilling results on the field. Cobalt, which says the field, with an estimated 500-800 MMbbl resource range…
In this video, Weatherford shows the benefits of the company’s RipTide RFID (radio-frequency identification) drilling reamer that can be enhanced with the ReamSync borehole enlargement performance system—a three-tiered process that combines dull grading analysis…
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