Gulf of Mexico

harvey-stone-esg — The multipurpose field support vessel Harvey Stone is one of the types of specialized offshore service vessels most likely to attract demand as the gulf deepwater and ultradeepwater market recovers. Eastern Shipbuilding Group photo.

Boat blues: Demand for Gulf OSVs remains soft

Kirk Moore

barges_mississippi_river_near_st_louis_usace — Barges transit the Mississippi River near St. Louis. USACE photo.

Inland uncertainty

Kirk Moore

perdido-spar-deepwater-gom-shell — Maneuvering Shell's Perdido spar into position in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico in 2008. Royal Dutch Shell photo.

Improving offshore drilling efficiencies could spell trouble for OPEC

WorkBoat Staff

ESG Harvey Stone 1 — Harvey Gulf's new multipurpose field support vessel from Eastern Shipbuilding, the Harvey Stone. Eastern Shipbuilding Group photo

Customs pulls back from Jones Act changes

Kirk Moore

brandon_bordelon_uliv_bordelon_marine — The Brandon Bordelon, a 260'x62' DP 2 subsea ultralight intervention vessel. Bordelon Marine photo.

Gulf of Mexico offshore service sector charts road to recovery

WorkBoat Staff

gom-jack-up-rig-osv-sun-crop-boem — Sun filters down on a jack-up rig in the Gulf of Mexico. BOEM photo.

GOM crude oil production hits annual high, expected to climb

WorkBoat Staff

rsz_chouest_facility — Chouest and BP recently signed a new 30-month agreement. ECO photo

Edison Chouest inks new agreement with BP

WorkBoat Staff

Thunder Horse platform Gulf of Mexico — Thunder Horse on location in the Gulf of Mexico along with the Discoverer Enterprise, Heerema Thialf and Heerema Balder

Anticipated Trump order would expand offshore drilling

WorkBoat Staff

BP's Na Kika platform in the Gulf of Mexico — BP's Na Kika platform in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. BP photo.

Two reasons for offshore optimism

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Ocean-Confidence-semisubmersible-GOM-BOEM — Ocean Confidence, a semisubmersible deepwater drill rig used in the Gulf of Mexico. Image via BOEM/Courtesy of Diamond Offshore

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Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale nets $275 million

Ashley Herriman

US agencies stop semi-submersible, seize 12,000 pounds of cocaine — A boarding team from the Coast Guard cutter Stratton on a drug smuggling semisubmersible intercepted in the eastern Pacific in August 2015. Coast Guard photo.

Coast Guard, NOAA budget fights loom between Trump and coastal states

Kirk Moore