BP receives clearance to enter into new contracts with US
BP.jpg” style=”padding: 10px” width=”79″ />The US Government lifted a ban on British oil firm BP that blocked it from bidding for government contracts, after it agreed to a set of safety, operations and compliance requirements.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and BP reached a five-year agreement, ending the prohibition on bidding for federal contracts on everything from fuel supply contracts to offshore leases.
Under the terms and conditions of the agreement, BP agreed to a set of safety and operations, ethics and compliance, and corporate governance requirements.
Shell bids for four blocks to expand Gulf of Mexico portfolio
Anglo-Dutch oil firm Shell announced that the company is the high bidder on four blocks during the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) lease sale 231.
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The company gave a vote of confidence to its properties located in the Jurassic-Norphlet trend in the deep-water US Gulf of Mexico and devoted nearly half of its leasing budget to a single block in the play.
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By GlobalDataThe company, which bid on a total of eight blocks and exposed approximately $100m, noted it was the high bidder on the blocks totalling more than $45m, including a key block that will consolidate its position in the greater Appomattox/Vicksburg area.
DECC recommends NCIMB’s toxicity tests
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) approved Aberdeen-based microbiology and chemical analysis company NCIMB’s toxicity tests as the preferred method of offshore discharge testing to reduce marine environment risk.
DECC recommended the MARA and LumiMARA bioassays as part of the UK’s implementation of a risk based approach (RBA) to testing of produced water discharges from offshore installations.
Said to include an array of carefully selected microorganisms, the bioassays have been recommended in preference to single species microbial testing.
BOEM reveals final environmental study for oil and gas exploration in Atlantic Ocean
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) revealed a final environmental review of geological and geophysical (G&G) survey activities on the effects of geological and geophysical activities to explore energy resources along the Atlantic seaboard.
The review establishes multiple mitigation measures that have been designed to cut down the impacts to marine life.
BOEM’s review also sets a path for survey activities that are set to update nearly four-decade-old data on offshore energy resources in the region.
In the programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS), the agency identifies the protective mitigation measures, as well as the safeguards to reduce or eliminate impacts to marine life.
Ukraine’s offshore natural gas reserves development to hang in limbo
The large natural gas reserves development offshore Ukraine could hang in limbo after the Crimea peninsula returned to Russia’s rule, according to Platts.
Platts’ article focuses on the Ukraine crisis, as well as its implications for natural gas prices and European energy trade flows.
Platts explores how the Crimea returning to Russia has upended Ukraine’s hopes of becoming a natural gas exporter in the near future, and its Black Sea offshore reserves are now owned by Russia.
Maersk introduces two offshore emergency training courses
UK-based Maersk Training introduced two new offshore emergency courses, which will be delivered using a newly built helicopter simulator and helideck.
The courses OPITO helideck emergency response team member training (HERTM) and the OPITO 6-day combined helideck and team member training are expected to start this month at the company’s training centre in the north-east of Scotland.
In 2013, Maersk Training in Aberdeen built a new dual helicopter, which can simulate Sikorsky S92 and Eurocopter 225 types of aircraft simulator, and 144m² helideck fire ground to support the courses.
North Sea helicopter crash might have been prevented, inquiry reveals
A fatal accident inquiry found that the North Sea helicopter crash, which claimed the lives of 14 oil workers and two crew, might have been prevented.
The crash involved a Eurocopter AS332L2 Super Puma Mk 2 belonging to Bond Offshore Helicopters.
Relatives of oil workers and pilots who died when the Bond-operated Super Puma suffered a catastrophic gearbox failure have called for a criminal inquiry, but the Crown Office defended its decision not to prosecute.
Subsea 7 wins $110m contract from Shell for BC-10 project in Brazil
Subsea 7 was awarded a contract valued around $110m by Shell for the installation of jumpers, umbilicals and associated subsea structures for the BC-10 phase 3 project.
Shell operates the Parque das Conchas (BC-10) project offshore Brazil, in which it holds a 73% interest.
BC-10 lies in approximately 1,780m of water in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil.
Due to start in the first quarter of 2014, Subsea 7 will perform project management and engineering from its offices located in Rio de Janeiro.
