Industry News
Offshore Wind Will Need Bigger Boats. Much Bigger Boats
Bloomberg | Lars Paulsson, Jeremy Hodges & Chris Martin | May 13, 2019 How do you install a wind turbine almost the size of the Chrysler building in the open ocean? Just get a boat with deck space larger than a football field and a […]
WoodMac: Exploration survey shows industry optimistic amid geopolitics
Oil & Gas Journal | Paula Dittrick | May 13, 2019 Wood Mackenzie said its 11th annual exploration survey shows the oil and gas industry foresees a return to profits enabling exploration of promising prospects. WoodMac surveyed 258 senior energy leaders and exploration professionals worldwide. […]
Oil industry under-invested in Gulf of Mexico?
FOX Business May. 08, 2019 Fieldwood Energy CEO Matt McCarroll on the state of the oil market, Anadarko's decision to go with Occidental's buyout offer over Chevron and address environmental concerns over drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Video Link
OTC 2019: Hess VP says offshore oil ‘a growth business’
Offshore | May 11, 2019 HOUSTON – Growing demand for energy and for petroleum products will spur offshore activity in the near term and the upstream oil and gas industry needs to be ready to answer that need, said Gerbert Schoonman, Vice President, Global Production—Offshore, […]
A forgotten anniversary underscores importance of offshore access
Houston Chronicle | Randall Luthi | May 7, 2019 Six months ago an important offshore anniversary quietly slipped by seemingly forgotten. A decade ago, on October 1, 2008, a 27-year congressional moratorium on oil and gas drilling in the U.S. outer continental shelf expired. In […]
NOIA Welcomes Final Well Control Rule
For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 2, 2019Contact: Nicolette Nye, (202) 465-8463, nnye@nullnoia.org NOIA Welcomes Final Well Control Rule Washington, D.C. – National Ocean Industries Association President Randall Luthi issued the following statement on the final Well Control Rule announced today by the Department of the […]
NOIA Statement on Interior’s Indefinite Delay of New Five Year Program
For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 25, 2019 Contact: Nicolette Nye, (202) 465-8463, nnye@nullnoia.org Contact: Justin Williams, (202) 465-8464, jwilliams@nullnoia.org NOIA Statement on Interior’s Indefinite Delay of New Five Year Program Washington, D.C. – National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Randall Luthi tod
Guest Column: Support offshore oil and gas production
South Strand News | Perry Collins | April 23, 2019 The decision by some South Carolina state officials to oppose offshore natural gas and oil development in the Atlantic shows their true lack of seriousness about finding real, achievable solutions to improve our state’s economic […]
Elizabeth Warren has a lot of bad ideas, but her anti-drilling plan might be the worst
Washington Examiner | Mark J. Perry | April 22, 2019 The United States needs more oil and natural gas production on federal land and in coastal waters. Consider the enormous demand for energy. The Energy Information Administration expects demand will increase 6.3% through 2050. Wind […]
Offshore Wind Farms Are Spinning Up – At Last
WIRED | Eric Niiler | April 17, 2019 ON JUNE 1, the Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts will shut down, a victim of rising costs and a technology that is struggling to remain economically viable in the United States. But the electricity generated by the aging nuclear station soon will […]
