Industry News
Media Advisory: VA Energy & Opportunity Forum
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 Contact: Robert Myers, (202) 465-8464, rmyers@nullnoia.org NOIA’s Randall Luthi to Moderate Panel at Virginia Energy & Opportunity Forum “A Discussion with Virginia’s Gubernatorial Candidates” NOIA President Randall Luthi will moderate an expert panel discussing Virginia’s Opportunities for Offshore […]
Western Gulf Sale Shows Continued Focus on Deepwater
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 Contact: Nicolette Nye, (703) 732-0801, nnye@nullnoia.org Western Gulf Sale Shows Continued Focus on Deepwater Washington, D.C. – National Ocean Industries Association President Randall Luthi today issued the following statement on bidding in Western Planning Area Lease Sale 233: […]
New Offshore Drilling Regulator Takes Helm
Posted on August 26, 2013 by Jennifer A. Dlouhy Oil and gas companies drilling in U.S. waters have a new regulator in the nation’s capital, as a Coast Guard veteran formally took the helm of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement on Monday. Former […]
Greetings From New BSEE Director Brian Salerno
It is an honor to join BSEE today as the new Director. I am looking forward to working with the offshore community to ensure safe, secure, and environmentally sound offshore operations. In my previous positions with the US Coast Guard I had the privilege of […]
Company’s report blames contractor for fatal offshore blast
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy August 22, 2013 WASHINGTON - A fatal explosion on a Gulf of Mexico production platform last November was triggered by contractors conducting maintenance work at the site, according to an investigation commissioned by the Houston-based company that owned the facility. Federal […]
Feds push stricter rules for offshore oil and gas production systems
Posted on August 21, 2013 at 8:53 am by Jennifer A. Dlouhy The Obama administration on Wednesday proposed a rule to tighten standards for oil and gas production systems used offshore, in a bid to keep pace with the industry’s march into deeper waters and more challenging […]
Seismic Surveys Prospecting for Offshore Wind in Maryland
Cruise mapping wind prospects off Maryland State-funded survey collecting data for turbine development By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun5:00 a.m. EDT, August 20, 2013 OCEAN CITY — The high-rise towers of Maryland's Atlantic beach resort were blips on the horizon from 13 miles offshore. Except for […]
Report: Oil and gas can boost economies and outdoor recreation
Posted on August 20, 2013 at 11:43 am by Jennifer A. Dlouhy Oil and gas development can coexist with hiking and hunting — and sometimes even fosters that outdoor recreation — according to a new study on how counties are balancing the activities. The research, […]
Arctic Development Trajectory is Irreversible
By Margaret Kriz Hobson, E&E reporter Published: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 The importance of the Arctic to world economic, political and military policy is increasing and irreversible, according to a recent analysis by Chatham House, a British think tank. The report argues that climate change, which […]
Anadarko pushes boundaries with newest deep-water platform
Posted on August 20, 2013 at 5:45 am by Zain Shauk INGLESIDE — Of the towering oil platforms under construction along the Texas coast, one stands out because it can’t yet stand. It’s a 23,000-ton cylindrical column the length of two football fields, and it […]
