Offshore Energy Leaders,
Due to major travel and work commitments, blog posting will be limited for the next few weeks.
Thanks for visiting the site and for your interest in offshore safety, energy and regulatory policy issues.
Bud
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Syttende Mai 2011
Posted in Norway, Uncategorized, tagged Norway, Syttende Mai on May 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Children's Parade in Oslo, Stortinget (Parliament) in Background
This is the second Syttende Mai for the BOE blog. Best wishes to our many Norwegian friends on their National Day, which celebrates the signing of their Constitution on May 17, 1814.
Way, Way Offshore
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
So, this morning I received an email message (pasted below) from Amazon.com. Observations:
- The internet marketers know all about us (no surprise there).
- Rightly or wrongly, book publishers are quick to respond to crises. Maybe we should ask them to prepare reports on the accidents for which no official reports have been published.
- Seems kind of strange to see the National Commission report being hawked by internet vendors. What’s up with the $.07 discount?
- Who is going to write about Montara? Lots of interesting story lines there, some of which have received very little attention.
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Oil industry CEOs now testifying before Senate Finance Committee
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
On Mothers’ Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mothers Day, Oilfield wives on May 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I thought I would draw attention to this Facebook page. 
This is a place for the wives and gf’s and mothers of oilfield workers here in Clarke County. I believe that our oilfield workers should have the same esteem as our military men and women. The way our world is now, these oilfield workers are sacrificing a lot to contribute their part of the oilfield.
I agree with those sentiments!
Best wishes to my mother and wife, and to all other mothers on this special day.
More BOP innovation on display at OTC
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged accidents, blowouts, BOP, Deepwater Horizon, drilling, macondo, offshore drilling, OTC, safety, well control on May 4, 2011| 1 Comment »
“I didn’t have a lot of set ideas about how things should work in the energy industry,” Jahnke said. “So I thought ‘Why can’t we try a curved blade?’ like the curved hook on a Swiss Army Knife can opener.”
Since January, T-3 has been testing Jahnke’s design, slicing through just about every size of drill pipe and casing used in the Gulf.
National Oilwell Varco is showing customers its new shear rams — a pair of trident-like blades that puncture a drill pipe before cutting it to shreds. The ShearMax Low Force Casing Shear Rams are aimed at cutting through tool joints – the thickest section of a drill pipe where it screws into another section of pipe.
GE Oil & Gas’ Hydril line of blowout preventers include a hardware and software system that allows an operator to know exactly how far shear rams close within the blowout preventer.
Another new Hydril product captures the natural pressure thousands of feet underwater to help activate a shear ram.
Weatherford International has touted its new “closed-loop” drilling system, which allows for better monitoring for gas as mud comes back from a well during drilling.
Harper’s victory margin encouraging for offshore energy?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Canada, offshore drilling, offshore oil on May 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
From Platt’s Oilgram News: 
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper turned two minority election victories since 2006 into a clear-cut majority win May 2, giving him the freedom to govern unchallenged for four years and, if he chooses, open the door to Canada’s first offshore oil and natural gas exports, climate change legislation, a national energy strategy and increased resource sector takeovers by foreign state owned companies.
Harper wasted no time telling reporters May 3 that Western Canada, whose economies rely heavily on oil, natural gas and mineral resources, can “breathe a lot easier.” He said NDP and Liberal policies calling for a ban on crude oil and LNG tankers off the northern British Columbia coast and a cap-and-trade emissions-reduction plan “were pretty seriously threatening” to Western Canada. “It’s a great thing those policies won’t be coming to fruition,” Harper promised.
PTTEP to drill 2 new wells near Montara
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Australia, blowouts, Montara, offshore drilling, PTTEP, safety, well control on May 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
PTTEPAA, through its responsible and proactive response to the Incident has shown its commitment to responsible environmental management.
Comment: Those who read the Montara submissions and closely followed the official inquiry are likely to question this conclusion. Perhaps PTTEP should have emphasized the lessons learned and their commitment to better performance in the future.
Mexican oil exports to end?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged exports, Mexico, oil production on May 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Mexico, the third-largest supplier of foreign oil to the United States, could lose the capacity to export crude altogether within a decade without major new investments in exploration and production, warns a research group report released on Friday. New York Times
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