Offshore

Congressman Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Tennessee, last week reintroduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would require all vessels

By Cassandra Sweet, The Wall Street Journal Online The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency removed a longtime obstacle to Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Arctic

The U.S. offshore regulator, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), has completed its first post-Macondo unannounced spill

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–Michael Bromwich, the former federal prosecutor who has led the U.S. agency that oversees offshore drilling through its response

– By Russell Gold, Wall Street Journal The Gulf of Mexico has staged a comeback as a source of oil for big energy companies, little more than a year

ANKARA, Turkey—Turkey said it will declare a border on the continental shelf if the island of Cyprus proceeds with offshore oil and gas drilling

The Commandant of the US Coast Guard, Admiral Robert Papp, released his final report on the Deepwater Horizon Investigation today. The contents of the report

Complimenting today’s official  (and final) US Coast Guard investigation report into the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Bureau of Ocean Energy

By Russell Gold A federal investigation into the cause of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico points the finger at BP PLC, but also its

Hercules Offshore Inc. (HERO) said its acquired an added 6.1 million shares of Discovery Offshore SA (DISC.OS), bringing the contract driller’s stake to

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–The U.S. Interior Department Tuesday proposed additional workplace safety requirements for offshore oil and gas drillers. The

Mexican state-owned petroleum company Pemex reported Sunday that 7 of the ten missing persons from the abandoned Trinity IIhave been found alive in the

PARIS (Dow Jones)–French oil services group Technip SA (TEC.FR) Monday announced the acquisition of U.S.-based Global Industries Ltd. (GLBL) for $8.00 a

UPDATE: Read HERE for Monday update on this incident. Ten people are missing after a liftboat contracted by the seismic data services company, Geokinetics,

HAMILTON – Seadrill (NYSE: SDRL) announced today that they had secured a four-year contract for their ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig West

In this report issued by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, researches assess just how much oil and gas spilled as a result of the Deepwater Horizon

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–The chairman and chief executive of Chevron Corp. (CVX) said Wednesday that the U.S. offshore drilling regulator needs more

Bourbon Front, the first of four ULSTEIN PX105 platform supply vessels built at China’s Zhejiang Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. has been delivered to Bourbon

ABERDEEN, Scotland (Dow Jones)–The organization tasked with policing safety on U.K. North Sea oil and gas installations said Wednesday it is prepared to

Today, at the SPE Offshore Europe 2011 conference in Aberdeen, Britain Energy Minister, Charles Hendry MP, announced that a new piece of equipment said to be