Weatherford achieved a new world record by landing an 1180-ton (2,360,700-lb) casing string at a total depth of 26,805 ft (8170 m). The job was performed on a deepwater rig in the Gulf of Mexico this fall. The operator of a deepwater rig in the Green Canyon required installation of a heavy…
An accident onboard the drillship Pacific Santa Ana has left one worker dead. The news was confirmed by the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), operator Chevron, and the drillship's owner, Pacific Drilling. The Pacific…
Freeport-McMoRan announced positive drilling results from the Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas (FM O&G) 100%-owned Horn Mountain Deep well in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Initial production from this well, which will be tied back to existing facilities…
Vallourec delivered 14,000-tonne of premium tubes in the scope of a contract with Hess Corp. for the Stampede project in the US Gulf of Mexico. Stampede is a deepwater subsea development which is located in the Green Canyon Block area…
InterMoor provided Anadarko Petroleum Corp. with rapid hook-up services for their Heidelberg truss spar in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico after stepping in at short notice for another contractor. The company hooked up the 80,000 b/d spar to three mooring lines in Green Canyon block 860…
2H Offshore has been awarded two separate contracts, one by Hess Corp. and a second contract by Enbridge Energy Co., to verify the design, fabrication and installation phases of the steel catenary risers (SCRs) for the Stampede field development in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM)…
Harris CapRock Communications, a provider of managed communications services for remote and harsh environments, has been selected by Hess Corp. to provide a turnkey, integrated telecommunications solution to support the Stampede offshore field development project…
Schlumberger has completed the acquisition of about 2750sq km of two new full-azimuth multiclient seismic surveys over the Garden Banks and Green Canyon areas in the Gulf of Mexico. Both shoots are the initial phase of the Revolution X and Revolution XI surveys and will provide full-azimuth…
Oceaneering International is to provide the umbilicals and umbilical distribution hardware for Hess' Stampede Project in the Green Canyon area of the US Gulf of Mexico. The hardware will be used to transmit hydraulic control fluids, chemicals…
Hess awarded Enbridge a contract to build, own, and operate a lateral pipeline estimated at US$130 million, to connect the Stampede development to an existing third-party pipeline system in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of Mexico platform…
Chevron discusses what it takes to deploy the technology and deliver first oil from the Jack/St. Malo fields, which are among the largest in the Gulf of Mexico. Discovered more than a decade ago, Jack and St. Malo are expected to deliver more than 500MMbbl…
Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by the Hess Corporation for installation work in support of the Stampede Project in deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. The scope of work involves installation of flowlines, steel catenary risers, umbilicals…
Hess Corp. began production from the Tubular Bells field, located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Tubular Bells floating production facility. From Hess…
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. awarded Technip a contract for the K2 Riser Base Gas Lift project, located in Green Canyon 608 in the Gulf of Mexico, at a water depth of approximately 1300m. Upon the terms of agreement, Technip will provide…
Pulse designed, manufactured and installed a powerful motion and strain monitoring system to verify the design of the first lazy-wave steel riser system to be installed in the Gulf of Mexico. The monitoring program at Anadarko’s Constitution…
