Offshore Oil
Gulf of Mexico Lease Sales Show Continued Strong Interest Despite Competing Factors
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 Contact: Nicolette Nye, (202) 465-8463, nicolette@nullnoia.org Gulf of Mexico Lease Sales Show Continued Strong Interest Despite Competing Factors Washington, D.C. – National Ocean Industries Association President Randall Luthi issued the following statement following today’s Gulf of Mexico offshore oil […]
Energy XXI chief: Massive Gulf merger will drive oil field growth
by Collin Eaton Energy XXI expands Gulf presence with $1.5B acquisition (Dave Rossman / For the Houston Chronicle) CEO John Schiller at Energy XXI Wednesday Sept. 19,2012. HOUSTON – Energy XXI’s $1.5 billion deal to buy another offshore oil and gas producer is notable in the energy industry, […]
Harvey Weinstein, ‘Big Oil’, And Rational Tax Policy
By David Blackmon Last week saw a couple of news events that caught my attention and made me think about how silly our societal priorities have become. The first event was the Obama Administration’s release of its annual federal budget plan which, for the sixth […]
Critics take aim at upcoming federal report on Atlantic drilling
Posted on February 26, 2014 at 6:00 pm by Jennifer A. Dlouhy in Offshore WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s Interior Department is on track this week to release a final environmental analysis that would help pave the way for the first seismic studies in decades to pinpoint […]
Obama hikes ceiling for corporate oil-spill compensation
BY JENNIFER A. DLOUHY Hearst Newspapers February 21, 2014 WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Friday took the unprecedented step of moving to hike the amount companies must pay for oil spills, amid a congressional deadlock on the issue nearly four years after the Deepwater […]
Moving Forward in the Decommissioning Industry
DecomWorld 2/21/2014 VIA Rigzone Within the last four years, the decommissioning and abandonment (D&A) business in the Gulf of Mexico has taken on an unrivalled pace of platform removal and well plugging and abandonment activity. With over 600 platforms currently eligible for decommissioning in this region […]
Nye: Time for Virginia to take part in the energy boom
Nye: Time for Virginia to take part in the energy boom Jason Nye | Nye is senior vice president for Statoil and serves on the National Ocean Industries Association's board of directors. He is a 1983 graduate of Northside High and native of Roanoke. | […]
NOIA Response to the SOTU
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 Contact: Nicolette Nye, (202) 465-8463, nicolette@nullnoia.org NOIA Response to the SOTU- Expand Opportunity for Americans through More Offshore Energy Washington, D.C. – National Ocean Industries Association President Randall Luthi issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s […]
Feds will wait til March to open sealed Gulf bids
Posted on January 24, 2014 at 5:24 pm by Jennifer A. Dlouhy WASHINGTON — Oil companies that hope to nab new drilling leases near the U.S.-Mexico boundary in the Gulf of Mexico will have to wait a little longer to see if they were successful. Interior Secretary Sally […]
NOIA Echoes Importance of U.S. House Subcommittee Hearing on Atlantic Seismic Exploration
For Immediate Release: Friday, January 10, 2014 Contact: Nicolette Nye, (202) 465-8463, nicolette@nullnoia.org NOIA Echoes Importance of U.S. House Subcommittee Hearing on Atlantic Seismic Exploration Washington, D.C. – National Ocean Industries Association President Randall Luthi issued the following statement on the hearing on seismic […]
