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Deepwater Horizon Rig Sinks in Explosion. 11 Workers Still Not Found

Crews searched by air and water for 11 workers still missing from the Deepwater Horizon, though one ...

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509 Oil Rig Fire Outbursts since 2006

Nine major oil rig fires have killed at least two people and seriously injured 12 since 2006 in the ...

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Somali Pirates Responsible for 35 Piracy Incidents in 2010

Somali pirates were responsible for 35 of the 67 piracy incidents reported worldwide during the firs...

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Deepwater Horizon Fire: 11 Workers Still Missing

At approximately 10 p.m. (CST) Tuesday night, an explosion rocked Transocean’s Deepwater Horiz...

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OPEC: Positive Forecast for Latin America Countries Production

Oil production in Latin American countries outside of the OPEC cartel and Mexico should average 4.66...

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India: Great Offshore Ltd. Reports 2.38 Per Cent in Net Profit

Integrated offshore oilfield services provider Great Offshore on Tuesday reported a marginal growth ...

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Singapore: Seadrill Delivers West Orion Semisub 10 days Ahead of Schedule

Seadrill today took delivery of the new deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig West Orion from the J...

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  • Equipment
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Transocean Declares Start of Trading on SIX Swiss Exchange

Transocean, the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor, has announced that its shares wi...

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USA: Transocean’s Rig Deepwater Horizon Caught by Fire

Transocean Ltd. today reported a fire onboard its semisubmersible drilling rig Deepwater Horizon. Th...

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Japan: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Completes Development Related to LNG-FPSO

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has completed a new development related to floating production, st...

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Greece: Tsakos to Sign $620 M Contract for New Deepwater Drillship

Tsakos Energy Navigation is reportedly close to signing a contract worth US$620 million for a new ul...

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  • Business & Finance
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Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Spectrum Starts Fourth Phase of Seismic Survey

Oil services company Spectrum said it has started the fourth phase of its seismic programme in the e...

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  • Business & Finance
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Brasil: Aker Solutions Signs $300 M Contract with Petrobras

Aker Solutions has signed a frame agreement with Petrobras to supply 40 subsea trees for the Iara an...

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  • Business & Finance
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North Sea Oil Rig Helicopter Flights Partially Resume

Flight restrictions affecting Helicopter flights to offshore oil platforms in the UK and Norwegian s...

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USA: Baker Hughes Inc.- Rigs Number Reaches 1,491

The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by 15 this week ...

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USA: Seismic Companies Wait for New Offshore Spots to Open

Seismic companies that map vast areas beneath the ocean floor for oil and gas deposits won’t b...

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North Sea: EDSA to Deploy New Groundbreaking System to Offshore Oil Field

EDSA,the leading developer of power analytics solutions for the design, testing, and management of c...

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  • Equipment
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China-Based Yangzijiang Shipbuilders to Buy PPL Holdings for $155 M

Yangzijiang Shipbuilders, together with its nonexecutive director Yu Kebing and an unnamed Middle Ea...

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  • Business & Finance
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USA: Lockhead Martin Thinks Big with OTEC

Lockheed Martin is progressing with Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. Known as OTEC, this technology ...

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USA: Salazar Reveals Research Plan for Drilling Offshore Arctic

Federal scientists have until Oct. 1 to decide what additional research is needed to determine the e...

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China: CNOOC Finds Considerable Oil Reserves in Eastern Bohai Bay

CNOOC Limited announced today that the Company has successfully made an important new discovery — Pe...

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  • Business & Finance
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Angola: Dresser Masoneilan Announced ESD supplier for BP’S Floating Production

Dresser Masoneilan today announced that it has been named the emergency shutdown device (ESD) suppli...

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  • Business & Finance
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Gulf of Mexico: ATP Granted a Lease for Offshore Drilling at Entrada Block

ATP Oil & Gas Corp. said that the Minerals Management Service has accepted ATP’s bid of $2...

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  • Business & Finance
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Norway: Det Norske Makes Significant Oil Discovery on Storklakken

Det norske has made an oil discovery in exploration well 25/1-11 on Storklakken in PL 460. A nine me...

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Singapore:Viking O&M Plans to Increase its International Profit by 60 Percent

Viking Offshore & Marine (O&M) is aiming to grow its international revenues to 60 per cent o...

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