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Paragon revises bankruptcy plan

Aug 08, 2016

Paragon Offshore and its lenders have entered into an agreement to revise the company's restructuring plan in hopes to emerge from its bankruptcy process later this year in October. The Paragon MSS1…

TGS, WesternGeco use latest techniques in GOM

Aug 04, 2016

TGS and Schlumberger have started the Dual Coil Shooting multivessel full-azimuth acquisition Revolution XII and XIII surveys in the US Gulf of Mexico. The surveys will cover about 7150sq km (306 blocks) in the Green Canyon, Atwater Valley…

Oil spill off Louisiana

Aug 03, 2016

An oil spill with an estimated maximum potential of 4200 gallons of crude oil occurred yesterday (2 August) from a well owned by Houston-based Texas Petroleum Investment Co. (TPIC), near Main Pass offshore Louisiana, according to the US Coast Guard (USCG)…

Vaalco CEO retires

Aug 03, 2016

Vaalco Energy’s chief executive officer (CEO), Steve Guidry, will retire from the company and board of directors effective 1 September 2016.  Guidry joined Vaalco as CEO in October 2013 after having worked for 33 years at Marathon Oil Corp…

Cobalt focuses on Angola, closes Mexico office

Aug 02, 2016

Cobalt International Energy is setting Angola as its number one priority, as the Houston-based company disclosed a multimillion-dollar loss in Q2 2016 due to a dry well in the Gulf of Mexico. The Rowan Reliance drillship…

Transocean to acquire subsidiary, three vessels

Aug 01, 2016

Transocean has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding common units of Transocean Partners not already owned by Transocean in a share-for-unit merger transaction that will also see the Houston-based company takeover three vessels. In the merger…

Anadarko’s Heidelberg

Aug 01, 2016

In this video, Anadarko talks about its Heidelberg project, in the Green Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico. Heidelberg, which came onstream four months ahead of schedule in January 2016, is an 80,000 b/d floating production facility…

Pipe-in-pipe solutions

Aug 01, 2016

Considerations for pipe-in-pipe designs for high-pressure, high-temperature fields were set out by Subsea 7 engineers at this year’s OTC. Jerry Lee takes a look. Subsea 7’s flowline solutions (from left: bundle…

Enhancing production

Aug 01, 2016

Oceaneering’s Justin Pizzitola discusses the use of an open water dual coiled riser based system for rigless stimulation. Back deck of an Oceaneering vessel. Images from Oceaneering International…

Changing the game

Aug 01, 2016

In advance of OE’s 2016 Deepwater Intervention Forum, held in Galveston, Texas, Audrey Leon discusses the next game-changing technologies with the forum’s board members. The Helix Well Enhancer…

Conoco, Marathon cut short Maersk Valiant contract

Jul 28, 2016

ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Corp. have signed an early termination agreement for the deepwater drillship Maersk Valiant, Maersk Drilling says. The termination, which comes following Conoco's decision to halt Gulf of Mexico deepwater exploration spending…

BSEE issues casing jack safety alert

Jul 27, 2016

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has issued recommendations for safety measures developed from the investigations into two offshore incidents involving the use of hydraulic casing jacks, where one incident resulted in a fatality…

FET opens Houston Syntech plant

Jul 25, 2016

Forum Energy Technologies (FET) has opened a new plant near Houston expanding its syntactic foam manufacturing capabilities. The six-acre facility in Bryan, Texas, brings Forum’s Syntech product line closer to clients in the oil and gas industry and has the capacity to support future growth…

BOEM to hold first online lease sale

Jul 22, 2016

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is gearing up to hold is first ever lease sale via a live broadcast later this summer that will mark the last lease sale for the Western Planning Area of the current five-year program. Image of Hopper…

Schlumberger job cuts hit 16,000 in 2016

Jul 22, 2016

Schlumberger has reduced its workforce by 16,000 so far this year, which the oil services giant attributed to weak activity that it expects to persist throughout the year. Image from Schlumberger…

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