Offshore Drilling

Coast Guard rescues lift boat crewmembers — Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a distress call from the lift boat, Superior Trust, near Southwest Pass, Louisiana, Feb. 15, 2017. Coast Guard photo)

Four crew rescued in Louisiana liftboat mishap

Kirk Moore

stacked-oil-equipment-texas-generic-cc-carol-m-highsmith — Oil rigs off the coast of Galveston, Texas. The western and central Gulf of Mexico, which includes offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, is one of the major petroleum-producing areas of the United States, accounting for 19.5% of all US oil.

Still no relief for the offshore sector

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mars-platform — The Mars platform in the Gulf of Mexico. BOEM photo.

In the oil patch, battle over Jones Act heats up

Kirk Moore

stacked-OSVs_La-KHocke — Stacked vessels in Louisiana in August 2016. Ken Hocke photo.

Offshore drilling recovery continues to lag

WorkBoat Staff

Oseberg field centre — Statoil’s Oseberg field center in the North Sea. Statoil / Harald Pettersen photo.

Shell’s North Sea deal offers decommissioning blueprint

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.

Industry applauds US Customs closing Jones Act 'loopholes'

Kirk Moore

drillship-with-support-vessel-gom-generic-bp — An offshore service vessel alongside a drillship in the Gulf of Mexico. BP photo.

World oil discoveries crashed to a 65-year low in 2016

WorkBoat Staff

offshore-rig-derrick-from-below-generic-bp — A rig's derrick from below. BP photo.

Canada will not grant Arctic oil drilling extensions for Exxon, BP

WorkBoat Staff

boem-mid-atlantic-planning-area-map — The Obama administration denied six pending permits to conduct seismic surveys for oil and gas off the Atlantic coast. BOEM image.

Obama administration denies Atlantic survey permits

Kirk Moore

Low cost of offshore exploration sets Statoil spending again

WorkBoat Staff

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

2017 outlook mixed for offshore

WorkBoat Staff