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U.S.-based energy giant Chevron has revealed that its game plan during the Gulf of Mexico’s six-month hurricane season includes making sure its helicopters are ready to fly to and from the firm’s oil and gas platforms to lower the production disruptions should it become necessary to evacuate the offshore crew.

Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) has signed contracts for the bareboat charter of another two KFELS B Class rigs to be deployed in the Middle East.

Aquadrill, formerly known as Seadrill Partners, has entered into a memorandum of agreement with Brazil’s PetroRio to sell the semi-submersible drilling unit Capricorn for $40 million.

Danish offshore drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has secured a contract extension for a semi-submersible rig for operations in Australia.

Oil majors Chevron and Shell have worked out a farm-out agreement for Block 5, located offshore Suriname.

After slowly climbing up for two weeks, the number of offshore rigs in the U.S. stopped its upward movement and remained flat at 13 last week, based on Baker Hughes’ weekly rig count report from last Friday.

Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP has started drilling operations on its Mugnetind exploration well located offshore Norway, using a Maersk Drilling-owned jack-up rig.

Once the fire is out well go out and determine the cause of the fire. >> eric: casey stiegel live with the details. any indication what may have caused this explosion? >> we have a little better idea. officials believe there were some type of cleaning chemicals on the surface of that massive offshore rig that somehow ignited and caught fire. but now that the sun is up the investigators are back out on the scene this morning to get a better idea of what happened collecting evidence and looking fo...

Fighter jets to the military. deciding it wouldnt be appropriate to move forward with the delivery given everything going on with egypt right now. democratically elected mohamed morsi was thrown out of office after violent protests. there is concern among allies in that region the move will be seen as indirect support for morsis party, the muslim brotherhood and concern there will be more violence. breaking news this time from the gulf coast where a drilling rig is on fire. the well partially ...

Lieberman is an independent who often votes with democrats and he said moments ago he also want dead know what rules govern off duty agents on assignment, and that was the status of a dozen secret service agents and officers who met with prostitutes ahead of president obamas visit this month. six have been ousted and another dozen have also in the military have been implicated. >> former b.p. worker now faces the first criminal charges, the oil spill in the gulf of mexico two years ago. you will...