Posted on 14 July 2010 in IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
OSHA announced in a notice of proposed rulemaking on 24 May that it plans to make sweeping changes in fall protection regulations…
Posted on 14 July 2010 in IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
The unfolding drama in the Gulf of Mexico has been breathtaking. The sight of a tremendous vessel buckling and sinking, taking human life with it…
Posted on 14 July 2010 in IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
On 22 June, the deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico was set aside by a preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge…
Posted on 14 July 2010 in IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
IADC celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2010. In recognition of this milestone, and in anticipation of the decades ahead, DC is publishing retrospectives…
Posted on 30 April 2010 in 2010, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, May/June
IADC celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2010. In recognition of this milestone, and in anticipation of the decades ahead, DC is publishing retrospectives from issues of decades past…
Posted on 30 April 2010 in 2010, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, May/June
IADC is celebrating its 70th anniversary by comparing and contrasting the perspectives of industry veterans with the newer professionals who are transitioning into the industry’s hierarchy…
Posted on 30 April 2010 in 2010, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, May/June
To the surprise of the US offshore drilling industry, the Obama administration announced that it will potentially open areas in the mid- and south Atlantic, eastern Gulf of Mexico and parts of Alaska to offshore drilling…
Posted on 30 April 2010 in 2010, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, May/June
Speaking at a diplomatic meeting in early March in Lagos, US ambassador to Nigeria Robin Sanders took up an industry cause and cautioned the Nigerian government against an “unrealistic timeline” in its local content bill…
Posted on 30 April 2010 in 2010, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, May/June
IADC celebrated its 70th anniversary on 18 March in Copenhagen. On behalf of 2010 chairman Louis Raspino, Pride International, and president Dr Lee Hunt, IADC invited representatives of the…
Posted on 30 April 2010 in 2010, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, May/June
In the oil and gas business, most people adopt an evenly balanced approach to energy and the environment. The people I brush shoulders with don’t trumpet oil-and-gas solutions for every niggling energy problem…