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North Sea Oil Exploration Continues with the Award of 46 New Licenses

By On December 30, 2011

LONDON (Dow Jones)–The U.K. has awarded 46 new licenses to explore for oil and gas in the North Sea, the Department of Energy and Climate Change announced on its website [...]

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Oil-Drilling Boom Under Way

By On February 10, 2011

Oil-drilling activity in the U.S. has accelerated to a pace not seen in a generation as energy companies, oilfield contractors and landowners rush to exploit newly profitable sources of crude. [...]

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Marathon Oil sets $5.267 billion capital, investment and exploration budget

By On February 2, 2011

HOUSTON, Feb. 2, 2011 – Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) announced today a $5.267 billion capital, investment and exploration budget for 2011, consistent with prior guidance and a 9 percent [...]

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Cobalt International Energy’s Bet On Deepwater Angola

By On January 16, 2011

The New York Times brings us an in depth look at Cobalt International Energy and its lead oil man, former head of worldwide exploration for BP, Jim Farnsworth, as they [...]

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Discoverer Americas – A 6th Generation Drillship Leaves the Gulf of Mexico

By On September 21, 2010

For Statoil and Transocean’s crew assigned to the Discoverer Americas, heading to Egypt had always been part of the long term plan, however in this case, the schedule got moved [...]

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“Skandi Aker” named ‘ship of the year’ at SMM

By On September 8, 2010

Aker Solutions’ new deepwater intervention vessel, Skandi Aker, has today been announced winner of the coveted international “Ship of the Year 2010″ award. The award was presented today to Stig [...]

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Interesting Ships of The Week – Blue Dolphin and HOS Centerline

By On August 6, 2010

This weeks interesting ships are none other than the Blue Dolphin and HOS Centerline, the two vessels used to supply drilling mud to the Q4000 as part of the Static [...]

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Life on an Oil Rig – Gulf of Mexico

By On May 7, 2010

____________________________________________ From the gCaptain Offshore Archives – 2008 ____________________________________________ Life on an Oil Rig in the Gulf of Mexico “Just Another Day at Work” By Captain Ben Dinsmore For the [...]

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Gulf Oil Spill Infographic

By On May 5, 2010

Click HERE for high resolution While quick google search will reveal a number of infographics on the Gulf oil spill, we thought that this one in particular gives a good [...]

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Obama Announces Expansion of Offshore Oil and Gas exploration

By On March 31, 2010

(CNN) — President Obama unveiled plans Wednesday to open large swaths of U.S. coastal waters in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural gas drilling [...]

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US Misses Deadline for Offshore Drilling Study

By On February 26, 2010

By Siobhan Hughes Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES FEBRUARY 25, 2010 WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–The Obama administration failed to meet a deadline for submitting a court-ordered analysis of the environmental effects of [...]

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Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon Drills World’s Deepest Oil and Gas Well

By On September 3, 2009

Transocean Ltd. has announced that its ultra-deepwater semisubmersible rig Deepwater Horizon recently drilled the deepest oil and gas well ever while working for BP and its co-owners on the Tiber [...]

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