Just a few short years ago, few had heard of Fieldwood Energy. In five short years, the privately-held company purchased properties and assets when Apache, SandRidge and Noble Energy exited the area.Now, Fieldwood says it is the largest leaseholder in the Gulf of Mexico鈥
Congo (Brazzaville), sub Saharan Africa's third largest oil producer, has intensified its campaign to promote the country's offshore drilling and exploration investment opportunities.The Ministry of Hydrocarbons hopes to ride on the new hydrocarbons鈥
As the Brazilian oil and gas market emerges from a four year crisis, with expanded oil block tenders including the high quality/high yield pre-salt plays desired by most major IOCs, new subsea solutions are required to increase operational efficiency while decreasing costs鈥
Norway鈥檚 overall, oil-fueled economic expansion may be hampering the offshore industry from recruiting the engineering talent it needs, just as signs of recovery appear from segment-to-segment.More openly than ever, a Norway-based offshore industry鈥
The high cost of producing offshore reserves is increasingly driving operators to seek out efficiencies, such as doing more with the data they collect.鈥淎 lot of people reconsidered how to handle offshore when the downturn came,鈥 Nate Clark, principal at Deloitte Consulting鈥
A report back in 2014 from numbers crunchers Rystad Energy 鈥 about the timing of an upturn for subsea engineering 鈥 appears to be proving largely true. Recovery, it said, would begin haltingly in two parts: first subsea services and then subsea equipment鈥
