Offshore Drilling News

Depleting shallow water reserves and a lack of new shallow water discoveries means that offshore exploration and production activity in deepwater regions is becoming a new fashion, states a new report by energy experts GBI Research.

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Better keep that tarball scooper handy. Government officials and oil industry lobbyists aren't just talking about expanded drilling in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Offshore drilling giant, Transocean Ltd. , recently issued a Fleet Update Summary for the period commencing May 15, 2013 to date.

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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management hosted the meeting Tuesday night to begin a long process of developing an Environmental Impact Statement, an assessment of the effects an activity such as seismic surveying has on the environment.

In its weekly release, Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. reported a dip in the U.S. rig count .

The Virginia Beach chapter of the NAACP threw its support this week behind federal legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell , R-Virginia Beach, to lift the moratorium on drilling for natural gas and oil in the state's coastal waters.

A Louisiana oilfield contracting company has been under intense scrutiny in the wake of a deadly oil platform explosion last November.

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Duncan, one of President Barack Obama's most vocal opponents on many issues, deserves credit for setting aside those differences to work with Democrats on a bill that has the support of the administration and that can help move the nation's energy policy forward.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said following a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing June 6 that the administration will not expand drilling to include the Atlantic Ocean.

Marine biologists at Louisiana State University captured the mysterious fish on camera in 2011 through a partnership with an offshore drilling company in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Broad, bipartisan support is building among lawmakers at the state and federal levels for expanding access to offshore oil and gas drilling and development, said Erik Milito, American Petroleum Institute director of upstream and industry operations.

With its large and growing fleet of offshore drilling rigs, the company has a lot of insight into the demand from exploration and production companies.

Noble Corporation today announced that its report of drilling rig status and contract information has been updated as of June 6, 2013.

Former U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will start work next week as a partner in an international law firm that will allow him to remain in his home state and work on cases involving the energy industry he once regulated.

ON TAP THURSDAY: Interior Secretary Sally Jewell makes her first appearance before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee since being confirmed in her new role.