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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)...

US Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced on 15 August that region-wide Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 251 generated $178,069,406 in high bids for 144 tracts covering 801,288 acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A total of 29 companies participated in the lease sale, submitting $202,667,923 in bids. “Today’s lease sale is yet another step our nation has taken to achieve economic security and energy dominance,” Mr Bernhardt said. “The results from the lease sale will help secure well-paying offshore jobs for rig and platform workers, support staff onshore, and related industry jobs, while generating much-needed revenue to fund everything from conservation to infrastructure.” Lease Sale 251, livestreamed from New Orleans, was the third offshore sale held ...

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...