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Kati Kovacs Visit to GFM Sep 23 2024
On September 23rd, our Chairman Joe Leimkuhler and HWCG Staff had the pleasure of hosting Kathryn "Kati" Kovacs, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the U.S. Department of the Interior, at Gulf...
BOE Exploration and Production, LLC (Beacon) Deplo...
HWCG is proud to announce that its Member, BOE Exploration and Production, LLC (Beacon), has successfully mobilized, deployed, tested, and recovered HWCG’s Ram Capping Stack at one of Beacon’s Green Canyon leases. The capping stack was deployed and landed on a test stump in ~5,600-ft of water, then pressure tested...
HWCG Supports Regulation Revision
HWCG Supports Regulation Revision to Allow “Temporary Pre-Approval” of Subsea...
HWCG Selects ATV to Design, Qualify and Manufactur...
ATV to qualify and manufacture a 7” 20k 350oF Gate Valve to upgrade HWCG’s 20k valve based capping stack by 2020.
08 May 2019, Houston, Texas and Colico, Italy: HWCG, a deepwater oil and gas emergency response consortium for the US Gulf of Mexico, announces today that it has commissioned Advanced...
Responder Immunity
When the Deepwater Horizon incident occurred on April 20, 2010 at the Macondo prospect located off the Gulf of Mexico, emergency response vessels quickly headed to the rig in an attempt to contain the blowout. After Macondo, the current responder immunity policy exposed inadequate protection for responders because they were...
Subsea Dispersant Application
Dispersants are products used in oil spill cleanup to enhance the natural degradation and accelerate the breakdown of oil in the environment through natural processes. Dispersants work by reducing the surface tension of oil, reducing the size of oil droplets to a diameter typically similar to that of a human...
PTS and HWCG LLC to Host Well Testing & Water Trea...
Production Technology and Services, Inc. (PTS), a provider of complete offerings in all facets of well testing, and HWCG LLC, a consortium of deepwater operators and non-operators in the Gulf of Mexico with the goal to protect people, property and the environment, will host a Well Testing and Water Treatment...