Tag: Offshore Drilling
Blackstone Energy Partners ventures into offshore oil & gas drilling services
Blackstone Energy Partners partnered with most of former executive management team from Pride International Blackstone Energy Partners today announced that it has formed Clarion Offshore Partners LLC , a new platform to provide strategic solutions to the offshore oil and gas drilling and services sector, with a financial commitment from private equity funds managed by Blackstone. […]
Statoil rig hit by heavy wave in North Sea, three injured
Statoil rig evacuated, down to safety crew UPDATE: Statoil reports one worker was killed and two were injured when a big wave slammed into a drilling rig in the Troll field, also in the North Sea. Statoil and COSL mobilized their emergency response organizations after three people were injured when a heavy wave hit a drilling rig […]
Texas-based Kosmos Energy makes second major gas discovery offshore Mauritania
2nd major discovery of 2015 offshore Mauritania and Senegal for Kosmos Energy DALLAS, TX – Kosmos Energy has announced that the Marsouin-1 exploration well, located in the northern part of Block C-8 offshore Mauritania, has made a significant, play-extending gas discovery. This is the company’s second major discovery of 2015. Based on preliminary analysis of drilling […]
US Gulf of Mexico share of active offshore rigs declines since 2000
US Gulf of Mexico offshore rig count currently 33 The US Gulf of Mexico is rapidly losing offshore rigs. The American share of active offshore rigs has dropped to less than 20 per cent since 2008, according to the US Energy Information Administration. In response to the decline in crude oil prices since mid-2014, the […]
New offshore drilling safety rules could cause industry slowdown: Republicans
Tougher offshore drilling safety rules proposed by Obama administration NEW ORLEANS – Republican lawmakers on Tuesday criticized an Obama administration move to toughen standards for offshore drilling, saying the new rules would be costly for drillers and threaten to shut down oil and gas exploration off the nation’s coasts. The Interior Department is preparing to issue standards […]
Exxon Mobil halts drilling off Santa Barbara after spill crippled pipeline
Drilling at three offshore Exxon Mobil platforms stopped The shutdown of a pipeline that spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara coast forced Exxon Mobil Corp. to halt operations at three offshore platforms because it couldn’t deliver oil to refineries, the company said Tuesday. The company temporarily ceased operations last week because […]
Scene of catastrophic BP blowout to be drilled again
BP blowout at Macondo reservoir killed 11 workers Deep-water drilling is set to resume near the site of the catastrophic BP PLC well blowout that killed 11 workers and caused the nation’s largest offshore oil spill five years ago off the coast of Louisiana. A Louisiana-based oil company, LLOG Exploration Offshore LLC, plans to drill […]
2004 Gulf oil leak: Senator presses for data, records
Drilling platform toppled during Hurricane Ivan, resulting in Gulf oil leak A U.S. senator from Florida is pressing federal officials to disclose technical data and other information about a decade-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, after an investigation by The Associated Press revealed evidence that the spill is far worse than a company or government regulators […]
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