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Freeport-McMoRan axes top execs

Apr 05, 2016

Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) subsidiary Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas (FM O&G) has shaken up its workforce with a reorganization that sees four top executives depart the company in a move that will reduce costs, streamline functions, and enhance capital allocation…

Honeywell appoints new president, COO

Apr 05, 2016

Honeywell has appointed Darius Adamczyk to the company’s newly created role of president and chief operating officer (COO) effective immediately, reporting to chairman and CEO Dave Cote. Image of Adamczyk…

Murphy Oil: A reduction in force

Apr 04, 2016

Murphy Oil is planning to make cuts to its worldwide workforce in direct response to the negative impacts of low commodity prices. Image from Murphy Oil. “Over the course of the past year and a half…

OneSubsea in GoM subsea boosting systems start-up

Apr 04, 2016

OneSubsea has announced the successful commission and start-up of subsea boosting systems installed in ultra deepwaters, located in the Gulf of Mexico. Installed in depths of approximately 7000ft (2100m), the subsea boosting systems consist of three retrievable 3 MW single-phase pump modules…

Byron spuds first SM 71 well

Apr 04, 2016

Byron Energy spudded the South Marsh Island 71 #1 (SM 71 #1) well located in South Marsh Island Block 71 in the Gulf of Mexico, using the Hercules 205 jackup drilling rig this week. Current operations at the SM 71 #1 well are drilling ahead at 671ft measured depth…

Schlumberger US$14.8 billion Cameron merger complete

Apr 04, 2016

Oil Services giant Schlumberger has completed its US$14.8 billion merger with rival Cameron International, less than a year after the deal was proposed. Schlumberger CEO Paal Kobsgaard, image from Schlumberger…

PECOM 2016 highlights Mexico’s potential

Apr 04, 2016

All eyes will be on the current and future potential of Mexico’s oil and gas industry at the 22nd annual Petroleum Exhibition & Conference of Mexico (PECOM),taking place 5-7 April in Villahermosa, Tabasco. PECOM 2015 exhibit floor…

BP Nova Scotia drilling delayed to 2018

Apr 01, 2016

BP Canada is putting its Nova Scotia exploration drilling activity on the back burner until 2018, as it waits out the economic slump the entire industry has been enduring. Map of BP's Scotian basin exploration drilling project…

Robots in disguise

Apr 01, 2016

Elaine Maslin speaks with Oceaneering about its latest underwater technologies and its thoughts on the future of the ROV and AUV industry. The NEXXUS ROV working in the Gulf of Mexico off the Olympic Intervention IV vessel…

Cracking the code

Apr 01, 2016

Scot McNeill and Kenneth Bhalla, of Stress Engineering Services, show how measured data coupled with engineering analysis can increase asset utilization. To date, the oil and gas industry has struggled to employ structural monitoring data in meaningful way…

Automating drilling fluid analysis

Apr 01, 2016

Clint Galliano and André Rand of Halliburton; and Steve Sparling and Pat Watson of Anadarko Petroleum discuss how automated, real-time measurement of fluid density and rheology can enhance drilling operations. Offshore workers…

OTC: adapting to new realities

Apr 01, 2016

The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) returns to Houston with strategies for adapting to the new normal. Images from OTC. In its 48th run, the 2016 Offshore Technology Conference…

Maersk cuts Chissonga jobs in Houston, Angola

Mar 31, 2016

Some 100 job cuts are being made at Maersk Oil as the company struggles with improving returns on its unsanctioned Chissonga project in Angola that will see the closing of its Houston office and reducing its staff in Luanda. Image…

Byron abandons GoM well, moves to next

Mar 30, 2016

Byron Energy’s attempt to drill a sidetrack well to SM 6#2 after a drill pipe became stuck has turned out to be unsuccessful in the Gulf of Mexico, with the company abandoning the well and moving on to another. The Hercules 205…

BP layoffs to hit Houston in June

Mar 30, 2016

UK giant BP is set to layoff some 500 workers in Houston come June, as part of the company’s plan to cut about 4000 from its global upstream sector by 2017. Image from BP. All…

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