Volume 73, Issue 7

A great deal of engineering expertise is being applied these days to well intervention.

For much of this year, the Kiewit Offshore Services fabrication yard in Ingleside, Texas, has resembled a small city in itself, with thousands of engineers and craftspeople onsite...

Like all aspects of ultra-deepwater exploration and production, mooring presents extraordinary challenges, both to engineers and to the people who hold the purse strings.

Singapore-based Energy Drilling has ordered three newbuild tender rigs from COSCO Shipyard in Guangdong, China.

When it comes to surveying large areas of frontier exploration acreage in limited windows of opportunity, seismic operators are required to think big and move fast.

Shipyards that build offshore drilling rigs continue to stay busy with new construction projects.

The world's deepwater (>3,000 ft, or 914 m) drilling rig fleet continues to grow in order to meet operators' increasing demands for rigs capable of drilling wells to deeper depths...

As Greece searches for a solution to its unending debt debacle and Cyprus seeks €5.8 billion ($7.6 billion) for its European bailout, both countries' best hope may lie under their...

The record $1.4 billion raised in signing bonuses from the Brazil Petroleum Agency's (ANP) 11th oil and gas licensing round in May marked a successful conclusion to the first ...

Mexico is one of the 10 largest oil producers in the world and the third-largest in the Western Hemisphere.

National oil companies dominate Latin America's oil and gas industry: Petrobras in Brazil, Pemex in Mexico, PDVSA in Venezuela, Ecopetrol in Colombia, Petroperu in Peru, Enap ...

Dolphin Geophysical has secured a 3D award from an undisclosed client for work in the North Sea.

The 2013 Offshore Technology Conference presented a trove of technology innovations.

Louisiana-based offshore supply vessel provider Tidewater has entered a $395-million agreement with HitecVision to acquire Troms Offshore Supply AS.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has ordered subsea hardware for its Heidelberg field in the Gulf of Mexico from FMC Technologies Inc.

The major topsides modules were installed on the Olympus tension leg platform (TLP) as Shell prepared to tow the 120,000-ton structure from Kiewit Offshore Services yard to the...

Statoil's oil discoveries in the Barents Sea ensured a strong response to Norway's frontier 22nd licensing round.

Husky Energy is pushing ahead with a third satellite extension at the White Rose field in the Jeanne d'Arc basin, 350 km (217 mi) offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.

Offshore development in Latin America is expected to remain dominated by Brazil until the end of the decade.

The world's largest undeveloped discovery, Libra, will be up for bid this October in Brazil's unprecedented presalt bid round.