Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling News: Offshore Oil Drilling and Exploration News

Offshore Oil


  Petroleum Video News



  Offshore Magazine Video News

The Offshore Middle East Conference recap; The Middle East will be world?s largest offshore producer according to John Westwood of Douglas-Westwood Ltd. ; Offshore's Eldon Ball speaks with OME 2008 keynote speaker Said Mubarak Al-Mohannadi of Qatar Petroleum; Offshore's David Paganie speaks to Reelwell GM Ola Vestavik; Offshore's Tracy Dulle talks to Nigel Patrick Kitchingham, Assistant Diving Operations Manager for Halul Offshore Services Co.; Offshore's Eldon Ball talks to Mubarak A. Al-Harji, Operations Manager (Offshore Fields) for Qatar Petroleum; Offshore's David Paganie talks to Kelly McHenry, Country Manager for Rowan Companies; Offshore's David Paganie speaks to Mohamed Hassan, Wireline Marketing and Sales Manager for Schlumberger; Featured Videos of Offshore Middle East Conference 2008


From the Pages of Offshore Magazine

Petroleum White Papers

Recent White Papers

Characterizing a Multi-Channel Controller for Gas Detection and Monitoring
Protecting people, equipment and plants operating in hazardous environment industries, such as oil/gas, chemical, pulp/paper, electric utilities, water/waste treatment, ...
Sponsored By:  General Monitors
Latest Offshore Oil Drilling News
ExxonMobil drills, cases Point Thomson well

ExxonMobil Production has drilled and cased PTU-15, the first development well for the Point Thomson project on Alaska’s North Slope.

EnCore aiming to drill Catcher, Cladhan

EnCore Oil has contracted two rigs to drill exploration wells on its prospects in the UK North Sea.

Songa Venus contracted for Shell Browse basin campaign

Shell Development has contracted the semisubmersible Songa Venus for a 156-day exploration drilling campaign in the Browse basin, offshore Australia.

North Sea wildcat well dry

Wildcat well 35/9-5 in the North Sea is dry, says operator Nexen Exploration Norge.

Reader-Contributed Offshore Articles
Simulation Demonstrates Ability to Improve Deep Subsea Oil and Gas Drilling Performance

The ongoing push for more producible oil and gas reservoirs is leading the industry into greater offshore depths and harsher environments. Traditional design approaches to developing equipment and systems for shallower offshore wells often don’t work effectively in these deeper, harsher environments. How can petroleum and marine mechanical engineers move outside their traditional realm of experience to develop new designs that will improve drilling performance in these new challenging environments?

read more
Offshore Oil Research
Petroleum Webcasts

On Demand Webcasts

EOR/IOR and the Future of Global Oil Supply null
Sponsored By: 
PennEnergy

Frontiers of Geophysics Technology null
Sponsored By: 
BlueArc