Oil & Gas UK and two UK trade unions have issued a joint statement opposing the European Union proposal to centralize regulation of offshore oil and gas safety.
Total UK Ltd. said contractor Transocean Ltd. has started drilling a relief well to stop a natural gas leak from well G4 on the Elgin platform in the North Sea, while workers ...
Dow Chemical Co. announced plans to build a 1.5-million tonne/year ethylene plant at its Texas operations in Freeport under a strategy reported a year ago of integrating US operations...
Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced plans for one of its subsidiaries to buy Cove Energy PLC for $1.81 billion in a transaction marking Shell's entry into Mozambique and Kenya.
High speed reaming toolsThe Turbocaser Express and Turborunner suite of high speed reaming technologies is available to the industry.Turbocaser Express (shown at right) enables...
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's latest definition of a swap dealer is an improvement on its original proposal because it recognizes the difference between a dealer...
AlaskaBuccaneer Energy Ltd., Sydney, signed a binding agreement to acquire a 12,000-ft depth capacity land rotary rig on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula from Marathon Oil Corp.'s Glacier...
US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar leveled a broadside against US House Republicans and other critics of the Obama administration's energy policies who he said are living in a politically...
The US Chemical Safety Board is moving ahead with its investigation of the Macondo deepwater well blowout, explosion, and fire and expects to complete its final report in early...
BP PLC agreed to pay $7.8 billion in settlement agreements with the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC) to resolve most of the private economic loss, property damage, and medical...
The US Geological Survey estimates that the world's undiscovered, technically recoverable conventional oil and gas resources outside the US total 565 billion bbl of oil, 5,606...
A former BP PLC engineer was arrested on charges of intentionally destroying evidence sought by federal criminal authorities investigating the 2010 Macondo deepwater well incident...
Williams Partners LP's discussions with potential shippers and other market inquiries regarding the Atlantic Access expansion of its Transco interstate pipeline have prompted ...
BP PLC and partners in the Shah Deniz consortium have approved initial work on second-stage development of their giant natural gas and condensate field offshore Azerbaijan in ...
An Apr. 13 safety alert shows how the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement is approaching its mission in its early days as a separate agency from the Department of...