A new offshore drilling safety rule proposed by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is expected to improve safety offshore in response to the Deepwater Horizon incident five years ago. The proposed rule, 30 CFR Part 250鈥
National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) president, Randall Luthi, joined API鈥檚 Jack Gerard and IADC鈥檚 Stephen Coleville this morning to discuss improvements in offshore safety since the Macondo Well accident five years ago. Luthi鈥檚鈥
'Our first three months of emission control area operation have run without a hitch,' says Carisbrooke Shipping CEO Robert Wester. 'We put this down to careful preparation supported by the skill and diligence of our sea staff.' Carisbrooke鈥
Energy Secretary Ed Davey has announced that civil servant Sir Patrick Brown will take up the role of chairperson of the North Sea's new regulator Oil and Gas Authority (OGA). Sir Patrick, former Permanent Secretary to the Department for Transport from 1991-1997鈥
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released proposed regulations for exploratory drilling activities on the US Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) concerning exploratory鈥
Abigail Ross Hopper has been appointed Director of the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), effective 5 January, the US Department of the Interior announced on 18 December 2014. Hopper, who will be the second director in the agency鈥檚 history鈥
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is inching closer to an oil and gas lease sale in the Cook Inlet offshore Alaska. The agency said it intends to publish an environmental impact statement (EIS) in the federal register on 23 October 2014 for Sale 244鈥
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management鈥檚 (BOEM) first Gulf of Mexico lease sale in 2015 will feature almost 44 million acres off Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, encompassing all available unleased acreage in the Central Gulf of Mexico planning area鈥
ExxonMobil chief executive officer Rex Tillerson spoke at the first-ever Greater Houston Partnership鈥檚 鈥淪tate of Energy鈥 event, giving his perspectives on the intrinsic ties between the energy industry and the city of Houston and highlighting North America鈥檚鈥
On Friday, The US International Trade Commission endorsed anti-dumping duties on steel pipe imports from four Asian countries, Turkey, and Ukraine. The USITC voted on 22 August that imports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from South Korea鈥
Mexico's Pemex has started a corporate restructure to become a more 'flexible and efficient,' it announced today. The announcement comes after Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto approved the country's historic energy reform earlier this month鈥
Mexico鈥檚 Ministry of Energy (SENER) granted Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) almost all of the acreage detailed in its Round Zero wish list, including rights to all requested domestic proven and probable reserves (2P). The government fast鈥
Mexico鈥檚 senate has given the final congressional approval to the country鈥檚 watershed energy reform that will open up the oil industry to private investment in a 78-26 vote late Wednesday night. The reform, which initially became law 21 December 2013鈥
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has compiled a new web-based map tracking North American LNG export facility projects. API says approving the LNG sites are critical to US export goals: the proposed export terminals are a 'roadmap to a lower trade deficit鈥
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lifted a suspension and proposed debarment and removed the statutory disqualification imposed on Houston-based explorer W&T 云顶赌场老虎机, the company announced on 5 August 2014. US EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy鈥
