Industry News
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 […]
UL helps develop technology to ‘remove human danger’ with Swiftships
Wearing a suit and tie, U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany used an iPad to control a camouflage boat, the Anaconda, through the Atchafalaya River on Tuesday afternoon. A broad smile covered his face as he sent the boat left instead of right using technology developed by a team […]
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 […]
Week Ahead: Time to lift the oil export ban?
January 27, 2014 By Laura Barron-Lopez A Senate committee plans next week to broach an idea that had been considered unthinkable for decades: lifting the nation’s ban on crude oil exports. The ban was established in the 1970s during the Arab oil embargoes. Talk of […]
Pemex sees production ventures as early as year end
Davos, Switzerland — Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico’s state- owned oil company, expects to sign its first exploration and production agreements with international companies as early as year-end after Mexico ended its 75-year monopoly. Pemex, as the state oil company is known, will initially focus on mature […]
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 […]
Shipping and Offshore Industries Sector Conferences and North American Marine Awards Dinner
MORGAN MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS 690 Mill Hill Terrace Southport, CT 06890 USA +1 203 255 4686 (tel.) +1 203 260 0480 (mob.) C.lyden-kluss@nullmorganmarketcomm.com www.morganmarketcomm.com For Immediate Release North American Shipping and Offshore Industries Head to Houston for Sector Conferences and North American Mari
