COSL Drilling Europe is examining the development of fully electric blowout preventer (BOP), a move the company says could ...

Testing of Shell’s proposed Arctic-ready capping stack system was supervised this week by the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) in Puget Sound, BSEE Director Brian Salerno ...

I’ve already asked whether President Obama’s deepwater drilling moratorium is a smart policy, given the fact that it won’t do much unless we attack oil demand at the source. But I still thought that a ...

Gas kick management is a critical aspect of maintaining well control and ensuring the safety of drilling operations. It involves the early detection, accurate simulation, and timely mitigation of ...

US SUPERMAJOR Chevron is working on new technology for global offshore operations that its supporters hope could be the alternative that Canadian Arctic explorers are looking for when it comes to ...

Frustrated twice by the federal courts—which had overturned his original temporary moratorium on deepwater drilling—President Obama Monday evening decided to do what most of us have probably wanted to ...