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Offshore personnel are reboarding Gulf of Mexico platforms, oil and gas production begins recovery.

TDI-Brooks hired Jayme McBee to lead the surface geochemical seep-hunting service line at TDI-Brooks. She holds a master’s degree in geology from Texas A&M University and brings over seven years’ experience serving the onshore and offshore energy industries. McBee previously worked at Fugro USA Marine where she held the position of senior geoscientist responsible for …

Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, has been awarded a 4D ocean-bottom-node (OBN) monitor survey in West Africa for a major oil company.

Global drilling and engineering contractor KCA Deutag’s (KCAD) land drilling operation has won three new contracts in Russia worth approximately $168 million. These contracts are for eight high-performance land rigs, seven of which were previously built by Bentec, KCAD’s rig and oilfield equipment manufacturer.

Expro has been awarded a contract by Pacific Drilling LLC’s subsidiary, Pacific Santa Ana, Ltd., for the provision of an intervention riser system (IRS) for Petronas’s Chinguetti Field Phase II plug and abandonment (P&A) contract, offshore Mauritania. The contract, valued at $20 million, will see Expro provide its IRS system with associated surface support equipment, …

All 20 dynamically positioned rigs have returned to pre-storm locations. Operators' reports of evacuated personnel remain unchanged from yesterday.

The Gulf of Mexico disturbance, Barry, made landfall today near Intracoastal City, Louisiana, and weakened to a tropical storm.

Shell is continuing its exploration of blockchain with yet another investment in the technology, this time investing in LO3, a startup using a modified version of the Ethereum blockchain to make it easier for individuals to buy and sell locally produced energy.

Digital transformation: It’s a phrase that seems to be on the lips of everyone in the oil and gas industry, and that was certainly true at the inaugural Energy in Data conference held in Austin. The conference, however, showed that the transformation is more than on its way. It’s here.

The Caribbean nation hopes the auction will lead to at least two exploration projects in a region that has become increasingly attractive thanks to new discoveries and investments made in neighboring countries.

The practice of safety has a definite ethical component. Often, the most ethical actions to take are obvious, such as the choice between a legal action and an illegal one. Other times, there are many considerations that may cloud decision-making.

Firms such as Netflix have had a solid digital transformation strategy. Now, industrial companies, including in the oil and gas sector, are on a similar, if less dramatic, trajectory.