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The 1988 Piper Alpha disaster – which claimed the lives of 167 men when an explosion destroyed the UK North Sea production platform offshore Scotland – triggered a major transformation of the UK offshore oil and gas industry that ultimately reverberated around the globe...

2H Offshore, riser and conductor specialists in subsea services group, Acteon, have completed the installation of a retrofit conductor-supported platform (CSP)...

Rowan Companies announced that the Rowan EXL III, an EXL class high specification jackup rig, has been awarded a six-month contract from Cantium in the US Gulf of Mexico. The contract is expected to commence in early November 2018. The EXL III is currently under contract with Cantium in the US Gulf of Mexico through mid-to-late August 2018. Rowan is a global provider of contract drilling services with a fleet of 27 mobile offshore drilling units, composed of 23 self-elevating jackup rigs and four ultra-deepwater drillships. The company’s fleet operates worldwide, including in the United States Gulf of Mexico, the United Kingdom and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea, the Middle East and Trinidad. Additionally, the company is a 50/50 ...

Research, development and training firm GTI is leading a high-profile program on hydraulic fracturing test sites (HFTS) in the Permian Basin, bringing together government and industry to improve recovery, continue enhancing environmentally responsible methods of optimizing production and lowering costs in the Midland and Delaware Basins...