Find out what goes into keeping an offshore facility's galley operating 24/7.

Having grown up on the Louisiana Gulf Coast, I had a number of friends and acquaintances who worked offshore.

LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Axpo, a Swiss utility and energy trader, said on Thursday it was in talks with a Canadian BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast planning to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the country's East Coast for a 10-year supply deal.

HOUSTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - There were signs that a natural gas well was not fully sealed before it exploded in January, killing five workers, the U.S.

The September WTI oil futures prices ended Thursday's session six cents shy of the intraday high.

The September WTI oil futures price ended Thursday’s session six cents shy of the intraday high.

Norway's Mongstad oil refinery stopped oil rig flanges gulf coast production on Wednesday following a power outage.

OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Norway's Mongstad oil refinery stopped oil rig flanges gulf coast production on Wednesday following a power outage and it was unclear when output would restart, operator Equinor said.

Savannah Petroleum plc announced Wednesday that it has made an oil discovery at the Eridal-1 exploration well, which is situated onshore Niger.

Preliminary results indicate that the well encountered a total estimated 44.6 feet of net oil bearing reservoir sandstones in the E1 reservoir unit, within the primary Eocene Sokor Alternances objective, according to a Savannah statement.

SATORP has granted Jacobs ZATE a two-year contract extension to provide general engineering services.

Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Co. (SATORP) has granted a two-year contract renewal to Jacobs Zamel and Turbag Consulting Engineers (Jacobs ZATE) to provide general engineering services at SATORP’s facilities in Jubail Industrial City 2 in Saudi Arabia, Jacobs Engineering Group reported Wednesday.

Pressure to drive down breakeven cost contributes to upstream culture shift.

A cultural shift is underway in the upstream oil and gas industry, according to an executive with the asset optimization software BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast AspenTech.

Aug 15 (Reuters) - A unit of Citgo Petroleum in September plans to resume long-delayed work to refurbish an idled, 235,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) oil refinery on Aruba, the Caribbean island's government said on Wednesday.