Offshore

By Bob Dudley, Group Chief Executive, BP p.l.c. A year ago [Wednesday, April 20], the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 men and causing the

Keppel FELS has announced Tuesday that its new multi-purpose self-elevating platform (MPSEP), SEAFOX 5, has secured its first job in offshore wind market in a

WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE)

Halliburton (HAL), which provided services to BP on its doomed Macondo well, hasn’t had any trouble getting back to work in the Gulf of Mexico’s

The high-tech marvel that’s enabling oil companies to return to the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico sits in a sun-baked industrial lot in the outskirts

Image: Arctic sea ice credit NOAA HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSB) expects to start drilling in Alaska’s Arctic waters in the

AMSTERDAM -(Dow Jones)- SBM Offshore NV (SBMO.AE) said Friday that on behalf of its Joint Venture companies with Sonangol it has received a Letter of Intent

Let me start by saying this is not your typical gCaptain job listing but hey, you never know. Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and

  Ever wonder where drillship crew workers come from?  Either way, a former shipmate on the Transocean’s drillship Discoverer Americas mapped

Partial collapse of the platform Flotel Jupiter – April 12, 2011 Name: JUPITER 1 Flag: Mexico Rig Type: semi-submersible platform IMO No.: 8757283 Owner

OFFSHORE GULF OF MEXICO (Dow Jones)–During a trip to a floating drilling rig in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Offshore explorer ATP Oil & Gas Corp. (ATPG) has resumed drilling at its Telemark field in the Gulf of Mexico, one of the first

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–After a year in which the Obama administration revamped rules for oil and gas drilling in U.S. waters, the administration is

Seadrill has been having a good week.  Yesterday, the company announced it has exercised an option to build a new ultra-deepwater dual derrick drillship at

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX: RIGN) said Monday that its ultra-deepwater drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 has set what it believes to be a world record

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) has approved Statoil to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The approved permit

Photo: An overflight of relief well operations by an Air Station New Orleans HH-65 Dolphin helicopter manned by a Coast Guard HITRON crew from Jacksonville,

Hamilton, Bermuda, April 11, 2011 – Seadrill (NYSE:SDRL) has exercised an option to build a new ultra-deepwater dual derrick drillship at the Samsung

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) has approved a deepwater permit for the drilling of a ninth well in the U.S. Gulf of

Seadrill, through its affiliate Sea Dragon de Mexico, has settled the final agreement with Pemex for the provision of the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible