By Georgina McCartney HOUSTON, May 5 (Reuters) – As Big Oil returns this week to the industry’s annual showcase for offshore energy projects and equipment in Houston, deepwater discoveries off Guyana, Namibia and the…
https://gcaptain.com/big-oils-embrace-of-deepwater-exploration/
HOUSTON, April 22 (Reuters) – As U.S. shale oil boomed last decade, an oil pipeline company pitched an ambitious multi-billion-dollar export port off the Texas coast to ship domestic crude to buyers in Europe…
https://gcaptain.com/as-shale-oil-gains-slow-deepwater-port-struggles-for-customers/
Russia’s federal agency FSUE Rosmorport and Primorsky Universal Transshipment Complex (Primorsky UPK) have signed an agreement to develop the first deepwater universal seaport complex in the Baltic…
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/russia-agreement-signed-for-1st-deepwater-port-in-the-baltics/
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said yesterday that they will advance new research into whether certain policy changes could help increase oil and gas production from deepwater infrastructure already in place in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).
“President Trump recognizes smart policy requires us to look for adjustments that need to be made today to facilitate U.S. offshore competitiveness, or we will experience problems...
The offshore community, particularly offshore service vessel operators and drillers in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, entered 2020 fairly confident that a drilling recovery was in the making, only to be sucker punched early on by a demand-sapping coronavirus pandemic and a global oil price feud.
To point, just as the escalating novel coronavirus was eroding demand and thoroughly disrupting the supply chain, Saudi Arabia-led OPEC and its one-time Russia ally split over production cuts in March,...
https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/offshore-oil-and-gas-recovery-fighting-stiff-headwinds/
Following the COVID-19 and the major disruption that has brought, the quarantine measures unexpectedly made Venice canals look clearer and cleaner. With no boats and the reduced traffic due to the country’s lockdown, small fish swimming around in the water canals are visible.
Except the negative impacts that the deadly pandemic is having, it has caused an unexpected positive side effect like this.
Specifically, a spokesman the Venice mayor’s office told to CNN that : “The water now looks clearer...
https://safety4sea.com/watch-venices-canals-become-clearer-due-to-covid-19-lockdown/
Chevron Corp. announced this week it has sanctioned the Anchor project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. This marks the industry’s first deepwater high-pressure development to achieve a final investment decision. Delivery of the new technology, which is capable of handling pressures of 20,000 psi, also enables access to other high-pressure resource opportunities across the Gulf of Mexico for Chevron and the industry.
“This decision reinforces Chevron’s commitment to the deepwater asset class,” Jay...
https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/chevron-sanctions-anchor-project-in-deepwater-gulf-of-mexico/
The Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA) director and chief executive officer James K. Lyons and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Mobile District commander Colonel Sebastien Joly have signed the Mobile Harbor Pre-Construction, Engineering and Design Agreement at the Port Authority’s headquarters in downtown Mobile. The engineering and design phase establishes the construction parameters to deepen and widen Alabama’s only deepwater seaport.
“This agreement is a critical step toward...
https://www.workboat.com/news/bluewater/port-of-mobile-to-deepen-widen-deepwater-channel/
Tanker BW Seine marked the start of operations at Oikos Storage Ltd’s new deepwater jetty.
Oceaneering International announced that it has secured a contract to carry out the first-ever deepwater Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) survey in Mexican waters. BHP will conduct the geophysical survey.
BHP will carry out the geophysical survey at its Trion development, with Oceaneering using the DP-2 Ocean Investigator, equipped with their OS-VI AUV and light geotechnical capabilities.
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Currently, work is underway and will continue for around 45 days....
https://safety4sea.com/first-deepwater-auv-survey-in-mexico-to-take-place/