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EDITORIAL: Don’t let Vineyard Wind lose momentum
Newbury Port News | September 2, 2019 An important piece of the energy future of Massachusetts and New England lies somewhere in the water south of Martha’s Vineyard, and it’s up to federal officials who’ve slowed its progress to make sure the opportunity doesn’t slip […]
First contact: Using offshore technology to find life on Mars
Offshore Technology | Umar Ali | September 2, 2019 The offshore oil and gas industry and space exploration have very different goals, but the conditions faced are similar. Much like operations in the inhospitable reaches of space, offshore oil and gas involves operating in temperatures […]
Why the Offshore Drilling Recovery Is Real
Yahoo! Finance | Matthew DiLallo | August 19, 2019 After several years of declines, the offshore drilling market is on track to see its first annual increase in investment spending since crude oil prices started tanking in 2014. The industry's rebound should continue for several years, even though oil prices […]
Democrats Abandon Obama-Era Energy Policy For “Radical” Green New Deal Approach
InsideSources | Michael Graham | August 12, 2019 Democratic presidential candidates want the American people to know that they are taking the threat of global climate change seriously. More seriously, in fact, than even former President Barack Obama or 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton. As a […]
Murphy Green-lights King’s Quay FPS
Offshore Engineer | August 9, 2019 Murphy Oil has sanctioned the King’s Quay project in the US Gulf of Mexico, the US independent revealed in its second quarter earnings report. Anchored by the deepwater Khaleesi/Mormont and Samurai developments, the King’s Quay floating production system (FPS) […]
The COASTAL Act Will Protect the Energy Future & Environmental Legacy of the Gulf of Mexico & Alaska
For Immediate Release: Friday, August 2, 2019 Contact: Justin Williams, (202) 465-8464, jwilliams@nullnoia.org The COASTAL Act Will Protect the Energy Future & Environmental Legacy of the Gulf of Mexico & Alaska Washington, D.C. – National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) Vice President for Government and Political […]
Americans Need a Real Deal, Not a Green New Deal
InsideSources | Randall Luthi | August 2, 2019 As president of the National Ocean Industries Association, it has been my privilege to represent the women and men of the offshore energy industry for nearly a decade. As I leave NOIA, these hardworking and dedicated women […]
Global energy workforce shifting from onshore shale to offshore
Houston Chronicle | Jordan Blum | July 31, 2019 As U.S. shale activity plateaus for now and the offshore oil and gas industry recovers, the employment growth in the global energy sector has shifted from onshore to offshore. In 2017 and 2018, offshore services firms […]
Swing-state households would lose at least $70G within first year of Green New Deal, study finds
FOX News | Sam Dorman | July 30, 2019 Radically transforming energy consumption under the "Green New Deal" (GND) would cost the average household at least $70,000 in the first year of its rollout, and a cool quarter-million dollars total after five years, a new study concluded. The study, […]
LTE: Seismic data is of immense scientific value
The Post & Courier | Chris McClindon | July 29, 2019 As an outspoken advocate for the collection of scientific data to study the Earth, I was gratified by Bo Peterson’s May 30 story on U.S. Geological Survey’s project to collect geophysical data to study […]
