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Energy Journal: The Big Business of Big Rigs
Posted at 6:27 am Jul 24, 2013 By Ben Winkley It’s a good time to be in offshore oil rigs. High oil prices have encouraged exploration and industry data from Rigzone shows 85% of the world’s rig fleet is now being used, even as more rigs […]
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Shell awards contract for world’s deepest floating production facility
Posted on July 23, 2013 at 11:59 pm by Emily Pickrell in Gulf of Mexico, Offshore A Dutch offshore services company will provide a floating production platform for Royal Dutch Shell’s Stones field project in the Gulf of Mexico, which the companies say will be the deepest-water field served by […]
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NOIA’s Randall Luthi Testifies at Senate Hearing
Contact: Nicolette Nye, (202) 465-8463, nnye@nullnoia.org NOIA’s Randall Luthi Testifies at Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Hearing Says Revenue Sharing and Offshore Access are Inextricably Linked Washington, DC – During testimony today at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on […]
Media Advisory: NOIA’s Randall Luthi to Testify at Senate Energy & Natural Resources
For Immediate Release: Monday, July 22, 2013 Contact: Nicolette Nye, (202) 465-8463, nnye@nullnoia.org NOIA’s Randall Luthi to Testify at Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Hearing NOIA president Randall Luthi will testify before a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing tomorrow […]
New oil platforms rise high to reach deep
Posted on July 22, 2013 at 6:56 am by Zain Shauk in Gulf of Mexico, Offshore INGLESIDE — The giants are visible from more than 20 miles away, rising like monuments from the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. They are oil platforms under construction — huge structures of steel […]
NOIA Surprised by Secretary Jewell’s Unfamiliarity with National Ocean Policy
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 Contact: Nicolette Nye, (202) 465-8463, nnye@nullnoia.org NOIA Surprised by Secretary Jewell’s Unfamiliarity with National Ocean Policy, Encouraged by Her Statement on Including New Areas in Future Offshore Leasing Plan Washington, D.C. – During a House Natural […]
Senior House Republican threatens fresh Interior subpoenas
By Ben Geman - 07/17/13 10:48 AM ET House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) is threatening to play hardball with the Interior Department over what he called a lack of responsiveness to requests for documents. “We are really out of patience with the department’s […]
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Shell shuts in giant Gulf platform for well hookups
Posted on July 17, 2013 at 11:21 am by Jennifer A. Dlouhy in Gulf of Mexico, Politics/Policy Shell announced Wednesday it had temporarily halted operations at its oldest tension-leg platform in the Gulf of Mexico as it nears the final stage of a $2.5 billion project to drain deep oil […]
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Time to Remove Roadblocks to Offshore Energy Production
Houston Chronicle By NOIA Chairman Dick Alario July 16, 2013 A decade ago, it seemed far-fetched that America would be poised to become the world's energy resource leader. Yet, that's the case today. America is on the path to overtake Russia as the top natural […]
BSEE Director James Watson to Join ABS
ABS, a leading provider of maritime classification services, announces that James A. Watson, Director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), will join ABS as President and Chief Operating Officer of the Americas Division on 2 September 2013. In this role, Watson will […]
