An early morning fire on Friday at an offshore platform, run by the Mexican state oil company Pemex in the Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico, led to the death of two workers while another is still missing. The fire started at the Nohoch-A platform and later spread to a compression platform. The platform […]
In a substantial investment decision, Australia’s Woodside Energy Group has committed to moving ahead with the $7.2 billion Trion oil project in Mexican waters. The capital-intensive deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico, operated by Woodside with a majority stake of 60%, anticipates producing an estimated 479 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe) of best […]
American insurance brokerage firm PCF Insurance Services has acquired Oak Point Risk Advisors, a Louisiana-based risk management and insurance agency, for an undisclosed price. Oak Point Risk Advisors caters to the maritime, oil and gas, and construction industries located along and on the Gulf of Mexico with commercial insurance solutions. Ronny Sternfels — Oak Point […]
Prosafe said that it has signed an accommodation services contract worth around $33 million for its Safe Concordia accommodation vessel in the US Gulf of Mexico from an undisclosed operator. The signing of the contract follows a letter of award received by the company in September 2022. According to Prosafe, the firm duration of the […]
Seadrill Limited, an offshore drilling contractor, has won new contracts totaling $105 million for the West Neptune and the Sevan Louisiana drillships. The West Neptune drillship has won a contract extension for drilling four more wells with two one-well options from LLOG Exploration Offshore in the US Gulf of Mexico. The firm-term will begin, continuing […]
Oil and gas giant bp has started production at the Herschel Expansion project in the Mississippi Canyon block 520 in the Gulf of Mexico. Herschel is the first of four major oil and gas projects that bp has scheduled to bring online globally this year. Phase 1 of the Herschel Expansion project involved the development […]
PGS ASA, a Norwegian marine geophysics company, said that it has bagged a 4D seismic survey contract in the Gulf of Mexico from an undisclosed client. The company did not disclose the value of the contract. According to PGS ASA, its Ramform Titan-class vessel is slated to begin acquisition of the 4D seismic data later […]
Worley has won an engineering and procurement services contract from Chevron to deliver brownfield modification services for a subsea tieback to one of the latter’s deepwater production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the Australian engineering services company, the project will set up a subsea tieback development scheme for the Ballymore field, which […]
Subsea 7 has won a contract for work in the Gulf of Mexico pertaining to the engineering, procurement, construction, and the installation of subsea pipelines, and transport and installation works related to an undisclosed project. The UK-based offshore contractor said that the contract will be recorded in backlog in Q2 2020. Without revealing the exact […]
US midstream company Williams said that its Devils Tower Spar platform will offer offshore natural gas and oil gathering and production handling services to LLOG Exploration Offshore’s Taggart development under a new tieback agreement signed by the parties. The Devils Tower Spar platform is located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico, […]