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One of Russia’s European neighbors is fully embracing U.S. liquefied natural gas.
Crude rose to highest level since 2014 as the drop in U.S. inventories helped to sustain a rally spurred by geopolitical unrest.
The first export of natural gas from the U.S. East Coast has set sail.
The U.S. wants to fund research targeting improved cybersecurity for the nation’s power grid and the oil and natural gas industry.
After amassing billions in debt and pushing a bold spending plan, Charif Souki was fired in 2015 by the LNG company he founded.
ConocoPhillips announced it has concluded its 2018 winter exploration and appraisal program in Alaska.
Fieldwood Energy LLC has announced the closing of its acquisition of all of Noble Energy, Inc.’s deepwater oil and gas assets located in the Gulf of Mexico with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2018.
Offshore investments may still be slow to accelerate, but that hasn’t stopped companies from ramping up R&D efforts to create a safer, more efficient and more productive offshore industry.
Statoil and Total have completed their acquisition of Cobalt International Energy’s 60% operated interest in the North Platte discovery in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) for an aggregate purchase price of $339 million.
China’s tariffs in one corner of the energy market signal U.S. shale fields may follow the nation’s farms as a target if a trade war escalates.
Oil held near $63.bbl after U.S. crude stockpiles declined and trade tensions between the U.S. and China showed tentative signs of easing.
As Shell finishes construction on its Appomattox Semi-Submersible Platform hull, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement engineers and inspectors signed off on several topsides components during a pre-production inspection March 27, 2018.
Lease Sale 251, scheduled to be livestreamed from New Orleans, will be the third offshore sale under the National Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2017-2022.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced it will publish in the Federal Register a call for information and nominations covering a proposed lease sale in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea Planning Area in 2019.
TechnipFMC has been awarded an integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (iEPCITM) contract by LLOG Exploration.
What would it take for China to reduce its trade gap with the U.S.? Buy more natural gas, says Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.
In support of President Donald J. Trump's America-First Offshore Energy Strategy, Interior Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Joe Balash has announced that region-wide Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 250 generated $124,763,581 in high bids for 148 tracts covering 815,403 acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Randall Luthi issued the following statement following today’s Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 250:
Abrado announced today that it has completed its first true single spacer direct displacement for a major shelf operator in the Gulf of Mexico using its VeriClean 200X chemical system.
Beginning April 1, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is increasing physical inspection time offshore, while reducing taxpayer burden by nearly $20 million over 3.5 years, providing significant cost-savings to the American public.