McDermott International, Inc.

Wood Group has been awarded a three-year offshore engineering blanket order by Pemex Procurement International for field development in Mexico’s Gulf of Mexico waters.

The Center for Biological Diversity formally and legally petitioned the US federal government to inspect all of California’s offshore pipelines for corrosion and other damages.

Paragon Offshore, a global provider of offshore drilling rigs, has stacked two jack-up drilling rigs and has been awarded several contract extensions with reduced dayrates.

Shell has asked US federal regulators for permission to drill deeper at its site in Arctic waters.

The deal, completed on Friday (7 August), was for an undisclosed amount.

The steel jacket for the Statoil-operated Mariner A platform on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) left the Spanish Dragados yard yesterday, August 10, and is now on its way to the North Sea.

Oil and gas operators will have to approach the challenge of decommissioning in new ways if the goal of maximising economic recovery from the UKCS is to be achieved, according to a report from professional services firm KPMG.

Montrose Port Authority has stepped forward to rival Dundee in the offshore decommissioning market.

The International Well Control Forum (IWCF), the independent organisation that sets international well control standards, has launched a new online administration system called “FORUM” which will change the way well control training is managed.