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Federal safety regulators, state oil and gas authorities, and the energy industry need to close regulatory gaps that contributed to the worst oil drilling accident in nearly a decade, the board said in an unprecedented report.

Phase 1 production from the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico field is expected to reach 30,000 BOPD. The field contains an estimated 5 billion bbl of oil in place.

Funded by a €10.6 million grant from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program, the ambitious project will, for the first time, undertake an oceanwide approach to understanding the factors that control the distribution, stability, and vulnerability of deep-sea ecosystems.

Saudi Aramco awarded a contract* to McDermott International for engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) services in the Marjan and Zuluf fields, offshore Saudi Arabia.

Wood secured two new contracts from Equinor for onshore and offshore facilities in Norway.

The oil industry is investigating carbon capture and sequestration projects after Congress passed expanded tax credits last year. But questions linger about how much industry investments will actually lower greenhouse gases.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement is launching a safety initiative to bring critical information directly to offshore workers on the outer continental shelf. The BSEE!Safe program uses text messages to send links to its published Safety Alerts and Bulletins.

A key driver of socioeconomic change in any project context can be rapid population growth. Labor influx can have positive effects, but it often results in adverse effects. This paper summarizes a portfolio review focused on labor influx and social effects commissioned by the World Bank.

Equinor has awarded Subsea 7 with an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract for the Johan Sverdrup Phase 2 project in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract covers approximately 62 mi of rigid pipelines, including 25 mi of pipe-in-pipe flowlines, 17 mi of water injection, and 23 mi of gas injection pipelines. Project management and eng…

DNV GL has won a contract to provide independent verification services for Energinet’s section of the Baltic Pipe project offshore Denmark. The Baltic Pipe project will enable the transport of gas from Norway to an export facility on the Danish island of Zealand via the Europipe II in the Danish North Sea. DNV GL’s contract includes independent verification and submar…