The US Coast Guard confirmed Thursday, 2 September 2010 that it was responding to a fire at a Mariner Energy-operated production platform in Vermilion block 380 off the coast of Louisiana ...

Calmer seas could allow BP to begin the process of swapping out blowout preventers at the deepwater Gulf of Mexico Macondo well as early as Thursday, the federal official in charge of spill operations said Wednesday, 1 September 2010

For more than 20 years, the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority has led various initiatives to reduce the risks to helicopters operating to moving platforms in the North Sea. Dr Athena Scaperdas and Dr Paul Gallagher of Atkins describe one such project . ....

When the ideal coiled tubing string for a sleeve-shifting operation was too heavy for the platform crane, the string was split and then rejoined offshore. BJ Services’ Godwin Effiong and Greg Dean explain how they kept the job safe . . .

High seas in the Gulf of Mexico will set back BP's plans to permanently plug the deepwater Macondo well by about three days, the federal official in charge of spill response operations said Monday, 30 August 2010 ...

BP was scheduled to replace the blowout preventer at the deepwater Gulf of Mexico Macondo well this week as the company prepares for an early September relief well bottom kill ...

Efforts to remove sections of pipe from the deepwater Gulf of Mexico Macondo well were pushed back 24-36 hours following the unscheduled removal of hydrate deposits in the well's capping stack ...

America's Jones Act fleet is committed to completing the clean-up of the Gulf oil spill as swiftly and effectively as possible, the Maritime Cabotage Task Force (MCTF) pledged today ...

Stavanger - A new collaboration between Norwegian research institutes and universities will seek to develop enhanced oil & gas recovery techniques and safety methods for North Sea fields ...

Stavanger - Decom North Sea is launching a mapping exercise to help the UK supply chain benefit from the £25-30 billion of North Sea work forecast for the future ...

Stavanger - BP's chief economist on Wednesday, 25 August 2010 offered a strong defense of the company's response to the deepwater Gulf of Mexico Macondo oil spill while affirming BP's ability to absorb the ongoing costs of the disaster ...

BP will remove two short sections of pipe found inside the deepwater Gulf of Mexico Macondo well but has not yet determined if the well's main drill pipe can be extracted ...

BP has come under fierce criticism for its response to the Macondo blowout, a months-long saga of top hats, riser insertion tools and other containment efforts that only began collecting a significant portion of the oil spilling into the Gulf several...

Four of the largest oil companies have pledged $1 billion to build a rapid response system designed to capture and contain oil in the event of another Macondo-style blowout in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico . . .

Unfair though it may seem, it is conceivable that the Macondo incident will have at least as damaging and persistent an impact on the offshore industry as Chernobyl does on the nuclear power industry . . .