Marathon Oil Corp. has ramped up production to about 45,000 boe/day net from the subsea completed Droshky development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

Chevron Corp. selected Mustang, a Wood Group company, for doing the detail design work on the topsides of the semisubmersible floating production unit for the deepwater Jack and St. Malo fields in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of Mexico.

Rowan Cos. Inc. said two of its jack up drilling rigs are expected to leave the Gulf of Mexico late this year for work in the Middle East under contract with Saudi Aramco.

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOE) has launched an investigation of the Sept. 2 explosion at a Mariner Energy Inc. production platform in the Gulf of Mexico, BOE Director Michael R. Bromwich said on Sept.......

BHP Billiton has brought its Ravensworth oil field on stream off Western Australia.

US drilling activity fell with 1,653 rotary rigs working, 3 less than the previous week. The count was up sharply, however, from the 1,009 units drilling during the comparable period in 2009, Baker Hughes Inc. reported.