Atlas Copco will be introducing its new Hurricane M-41 booster module in its OTC booth this year.

Halliburton has won an OTC Spotlight Award for its EquiFlow autonomous inflow control device.

Baker Hughes has been recognized by OTC Spotlight Awards committee for the TeleCoil downhole communication system.

Versabar has received the OTC Spotlight Award for the Claw, a subsea grappling device.

Subsea 7 will showcase a range of new developments at the upcoming OTC.

WorleyParsons and INTECSEA will bring a comprehensive, full-service offshore facility design capability to OTC again this year.

ABS will offer a variety of technical papers at this year’s OTC on topics ranging from FLNGs and ISO standards to jackups, offshore vessels, and steel catenary risers.

Shell has issued an update on the oil sheen spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, between the Mars and Ursa production area.

The Marine Spill Response Corp. has completed its “Deep Blue” Gulf of Mexico expansion program.

Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to regain the momentum it had before the Macondo incident according to an analysis by EIC Consult.

The United States and Mexico have agreed to cooperate in oil and gas developments along the maritime border between the two countries in the Gulf of Mexico.

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has approved Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc.’s Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) for the Chukchi Sea.

National Ocean Industries Association President Randall Luthi has issued a statement on the Obama administration’s budget request for the Department of the Interior.    

Buccaneer Energy has agreed to acquire the two main productive leases in the former Cosmopolitan Unit (Cosmo) from Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska.

Cal Dive International Inc. has won a field abandonment and decommissioning contract from a Gulf of Mexico operator.

Alden J. “Doc” Laborde, a graduate of the US Naval Academy and World War II veteran, left his job with Kerr-McGee in 1950 to found the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co.

The consolidated Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 216/222 is scheduled for June 20, 2012 in New Orleans.

A fourth joint project to map the Arctic Ocean continental shelf by the United States and Canada is now complete.

The Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) has approved conditionally Shell’s Revised Chukchi Sea Exploration Plan set to begin this year.

Enbridge is investigating the report of a small natural gas leak in the West Cameron block 275, about 66 mi (106 km) off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico.