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Petrobras says it can produce oil for a lower break-even price than onshore shale plays, including the Permian Basin. Brazil’s offshore sector has cut the cost of deepwater production but comparisons based on break-even prices are slippery.

The song is about writing songs. But it makes writing songs sound so much like engineering I had to write about it.

Unmanned minimum facility platforms are a reliable alternative to traditional wellhead platforms or subsea installations, and the technologies enabling simpler designs have evolved.

Wireline formation tests are a critical piece of the exploration and appraisal process, yet they come with a degree of uncertainty. The supermajor has tapped a new software developer to see if it can clear things up.

Up to 1,000 gallons of oil per day are being removed from the site of the Taylor Energy spill, says the owner of the company that installed a containment system.

The recent production freefall could accelerate even further as US sanctions-related deadlines pass, the US Energy Information Administration said.

Some 3,000 people and counting intrigued by UK oil and gas data have signed up for access to the country’s new National Data Repository. What motivated the OGA to make the data available to the public, and what can the public do with the data?

Petrobras has awarded McDermott with a significant contract for the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of subsea rises and flowlines for the first phase of the Sepia field, located 174 mi from the Rio de Janeiro coastline in Brazil. The project scope includes detailed engineering, surveys, supply, installation, and pre-commissioning of rigid pipe…

The Colorado Petroleum Council named Lynn Granger executive director. She joins the council, a division of the American Petroleum Institute, from Colorado Concern, a business advocacy association in the Mountain West, where she served as chief operating officer. Previously, she was the communications director for the Colorado Department of Revenue. Granger began her c…

Oceaneering International appointed Charles (Chuck) W. Davison Jr. to succeed Clyde W. Hewlett as chief operating officer effective upon Davison's commencement of employment with Oceaneering, which is expected on or about 3 June. Oceaneering intends that Davison will have worldwide responsibility for Oceaneering's energy-related segments. Davison has served as CEO and…

Oceaneering awarded Deepsea Technologies a contract to provide engineering, procurement, and construction of equipment to be used on drillpipe risers offshore Brazil, expected to deploy by Q4 this year. The contract is supported by project management, engineering, procurement, and QHSE efforts from both Houston and Brazil operations.

Vast amounts of offshore and onshore reliability data will be made available as the project by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate provides access to its now-digital data in an effort to improve accessibility and efficiency for oil and gas industry reliability data.