Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) has contracted 2H Offshore to do the detailed design of two 10-in. production steel catenary risers to use in Phase 1 of the Julia development in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Deepwater Horizon Gulf Coast Incident Management Team is going back to National Response Center reporting.

Anadarko (NYSE:APC) as operator has awarded Subsea 7 S.A. (Oslo Børs:SUBC) a contract for work at the deepwater Heidelberg development in the Gulf of Mexico.

Louisiana independent LLOG Exploration Co. is gearing up for an ambitious deepwater Gulf of Mexico drilling campaign at the Delta House project, scheduled for first oil in 2015.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and its predecessor the Minerals Management Service (MMS) have conducted thousands of inspections of offshore exploration and production facilities in federal waters.

Drilling activity in the Gulf of Mexico is rebounding slowly but surely from the events of 2010, and is part of a general recovery in E&P activity taking place in the Gulf in the wake of Macondo.

Drilling activities in the Gulf of Mexico are on the rise, as illustrated in a number of ultra-deepwater drilling contracts that the International Strategy & Investment Group LLC (ISI) highlighted in its mid-April Monthly Offshore Drilling Update.

Entering the fourth year of sweeping regulatory reform, the US oil and gas industry is still grappling with clarity and compliance.

The major topsides modules have been installed on the Olympus tension leg platform (TLP) as Shell prepares to tow the 120,000-ton structure from Kiewit Offshore Services yard to the deepwater Mars field late this month or early July.