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As decommissioning costs mount in the US Gulf of Mexico, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is looking to change financial requirements for ­lessees and operators in federal waters for the first time in more than 20 years.

This is an update on several managed-pressure drilling (MPD) technologies and downhole drilling performance-enhancing tools in use onshore and is the first of a two-part series. The second article on offshore MPD technologies will appear in the February issue of JPT.

Downhole data acquisition by fiber-optic technology, particularly distributed fiber-optic (DFO) sensing, has gained rapid acceptance. Compared with conventional data acquisition, DFO provides a much better understanding of well and reservoir behavior.

This month, Mexico will begin opening data rooms as it prepares for its first upstream bidding round involving foreign participation.

Many offshore decommissioning costs are higher than necessary because of decisions made during the initial engineering and construction for an oil or gas field.

With a high demand for plug and abandonment (P&A) of subsea wells in the future on the Norwegian continental shelf, industry is challenged to find alternatives and rigless technologies that can make P&A operation more cost-effective and -efficient.

This paper describes the preplanning and execution of Australia’s largest subsea well-abandonment campaign to date.

As an operator approaches the end of a field’s life, the remaining value may lie predominantly in a low-cost decommissioning delivery coupled with some upside value from the retention of critical infrastructure to enable maximum regional resource recovery.

Neil Chapman was appointed as the president of ExxonMobil Chemical and elected to serve as the vice president of ExxonMobil, replacing the retiring Stephen Pryor. Chapman joined the company in 1984, working for an Esso Chemical refinery in the United Kingdom. He advanced within the company in a series of engineering, operations, planning, and marketing roles in chemic…

Plains All American Pipeline entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Occidental Petroleum’s 50% share in BridgeTex Pipeline Company for USD 1.075 billion. BridgeTex owns the BridgeTex Pipeline—a 300,000 B/D crude pipeline system that extends from Colorado City in west Texas to Texas City, approximately 15 miles from the port of Galveston. The remaining 50% of …