Technip will install an electro-hydraulic control umbilical for the Bass Lite in the Gulf of Mexico, a Mariner Energy contract of unspecified value. 
Delmar Systems, Inc. under an EPCI (Engineer, Procure, Construct, Install) contract with Shell Exploration & Production Co., Inc., delivered preset MODU (mobile offshore drilling unit) moorings for the Perdido Deepwater Development located in Alaminos Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. Using the latest in deepwater mooring technology, Delmar provided multiple mooring systems for this development drilling project. 
U.K. independent Empyrean Energy has reported another gas discovery at the Margarita project on the Gulf Coast of Texas, it was announced Tuesday.
Texas producer Universal Energy Resources, Inc has sold all its assets — said to be $650,000,000 worth — to 1st Texas Natural Gas Company, Inc., it was announced Monday. 
A consortium of oilfield infrastructure builders J. Ray McDermott and Fluor has been awarded a contract to engineer, build, install and procure for BG’s offshore Poinsettia project in Trinidad & Tobago. 
Aker Kvaerner Subsea will engineer and deliver the Gulf of Mexico deepwater project Noonan for U.S. outfit Helix Energy Solutions, in a $14 million deal. 
Superior Offshore has posted a $5.7-million drop in first-quarter net income over the same time a year ago, a $6.2 million result blamed on less day-earnings for its offshore fleet. 
Fred Olsen Energy business, Dolphin Drilling, has cut a tentative, five-year, $436-million deal for the semi-submersible Borgny Dolphin. 
Gulfsands Petroleum plc, the oil and gas production, exploration and development company with activities in the U.S.A., Syria and Iraq, is pleased to provide an updated reserves study as of 31 December 2006 for Gulfsands' USA oil and gas properties. 
Entek Energy announces that the stabilized flow rate was 50.5 MMscfD with approximately 384 barrels of condensate per day. |
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Drilling contractor Noble Corp. has posted $250.3 million in net income for the first quarter of 2007, 72 percent better than the year-ago period on more drilling. 
Louisiana oilfield-services outfit Superior Energy has bought Texas company Advanced Oilwell Services for $24.1 million in cash, it was learned Tuesday. 
Shell has won the 2006 National Ocean Industries Association prize for its recovery of the Mars platform in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it was learned Friday. 
Technip will install water-injection flowlines and risers at the Ursa and Princess field developments in the Gulf of Mexico, the Paris-based oilfield services outfit declared Wednesday. 
Superior Offshore International, a leading provider of subsea construction and commercial diving services on the outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico, has been designated the preferred diving operations contractor for Heerema Marine Contractors, or HMC, for work on both the Independence Hub and the Neptune tension leg platform.
The U.S. Minerals Management Service is seeking to simplify the way oil and gas production is reported, in a complete rewrite of regulations for offshore operations, it was learned this week.
Noble Drilling Services Inc. has hired out a high-spec semisubersible drill rig, the Noble Bingo 9000 Rig 4, to Marathon Oil on terms yet to be worked out, it was understood Wednesday. 
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has agreed to sell a portion of its interest in the K2 Unit in the Gulf of Mexico to two undisclosed parties for $1.2 billion. The sale is effective Jan. 1, 2007. 
Baker Energy, a unit of Michael Baker Corporation announced that the U.S. Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) has recognized Baker’s dedication to safe and responsible operations with three District-level 2006 Safety Awards for Excellence (SAFE), in the Production Contractor category, for the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) region. 
Shallow-water driller TODCO of Houston has secured a two-year drilling contract with Mexican oil company Pemex for “THE 2005” rig on the U.S. Gulf Coast, it was learned Wednesday. |
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