OE’s Audrey Leon speaks with Scott Munro, McDermott’s Vice President, Americas, Europe and Africa, about recent projects undertaken at the company’s Altamira facility. PB-Litoral-A topsides floatover operations…
Juan Carlos Luna discusses the risk, compliance and anti-corruption challenges of doing energy deals in Mexico. Image from iStock. Mexico’s energy reform became law on 21 December 2013…
DNV GL’s Santhosh Mony, Eckhard Hinrichsen, and Pedram Fanailoo offer the regulatory perspective on offshore risk management. Photo from DNV GL. Mexico is recognized as one of the top 10 oil producers of the world…
35 offshore projects and 100 rig years have slipped after the oil price collapse. Oddmund Føre, Analyst, Rystad Energy, explains. The market for oilfield services is hurting and offshore drilling is no exception. The global market for…
Due to the low oil prices heard around the world, Mexico’s Pemex is cutting its budget by a massive US$5.52 billion ($100 billion pesos) to help meets its financial goal by deferring and dropping less-urgent projects. Undersecretary…
National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) president Randall Luthi, issued the following statement supporting the Atlantic Offshore Energy Caucus’s call for the Department of the Interior's retention of proposed Atlantic lease sale: “I…
Oilfield services giant Halliburton will reduce its workforce by 8%, or 5000 positions, amid the falling oil prices. Image from Halliburton Twitter. The recent cuts add to the approximate 26…
José Antonio González Anaya has only been on the job for two weeks, but he’s ready to work. The new head of Pemex made his debut at IHS CERAWeek on Tuesday afternoon in a discussion session with IHS moderators Daniel Yergin and Carlos Pascual…
Global oil prices are bound to turn around to play its part of the oil and gas industry’s cyclical series that has been in place for decades, with standardization playing a key role, industry experts said at IHS CERAWeek in Houston on Tuesday…
Three of Latin America’s top oil and gas companies, Pemex, Ecopetrol, and Petrobras, gathered to speak in Houston this morning at IHS CERAWeek with a mirrored message that echoes in the industry across the world: the main challenges that…
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto told delegates at this year’s IHS CERAWeek forum in Houston that the fourth phase of Mexico’s historic Round One, will go forward in early December. The long-anticipated fourth phase of Round One will auction off 10 deepwater blocks…
The European Union (EU) suspended the deadline for its review of Halliburton’s US$34.6 billion pending acquisition of Baker Hughes last week, about a month after the EU opened an in-depth investigation to find out if the merger would impede effective competition…
In the Gulf of Mexico, Chevron is putting its focus on its deepwater assets, and is on the fast-track to sell its shelf assets in the area, as the company looks to divest up to US$10 billion in the next two years. Big Foot…
Mexico’s Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) authorized CGG to commence a multi-client airborne gravity and magnetic survey offshore Mexico, which will include the acquisition of approximately 200,000km over six areas across the Mexican Gulf of Mexico…
ExxonMobil added 1 billion boe of proved oil and gas reserves in 2015 for a total of 24.8 billion boe that was a result of new developments, and a significant discovery offshore Guyana. Image from ExxonMobil…
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