Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling has won a deal from Chinese oil company CNOOC for the use of one of its drillships offshore Canada. The company also started using Intebloc’s data management system.
TechnipFMC has secured an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) contract for pipelay and subsea installation at the Equinor’s Breidablikk field. The contract awarded by Equinor for the the Breidablikk pipelay also includes option for the subsea installation scope located in
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has visited the Fatih drillship to announce an increase in discovered resources at the Tuna-1 (Danube-1) offshore well in the Black Sea.
The number of active rigs in the U.S. remained flat for the fourth week in a row, according to weekly rig count reports by Baker Hughes.
Marine seismic player Polarcus has secured a contract for a 3D seismic data acquisition services in West Africa. According to the Oslo-listed company, the contract has an expected duration of two months. The project, for an undisclosed client and unknown value, should commence in the fourth quarter
Africa Energy has received approval from shareholders for a transaction which will see it increase its interest in a Total-operated block off South Africa.
Seabed Geosolutions has secured a contract for a baseline 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey as well as a future 4D monitor OBN survey in Brazil. The project will take place in water depths greater than 2,200 metres. The baseline survey should commence in the second quarter of 2021. According to the
Swedish oil and gas company Lundin has spudded the Polmak well in the Barents Sea offshore Norway, using the West Bollsta semi-submersible drilling rig.
Northern Offshore’s drilling rig Energy Enticer has started drilling operations with Qatargas.
Tulip Oil halved its gas production from the Q10-A field in the Dutch North Sea in the third quarter of the year when compared to the previous quarter.
Norwegian oil major Equinor has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for drilling in the North Sea using the West Hercules drilling rig.
Oilfield services provider Wood has secured a new contract with Equinor to support its operations at the Mariner field in the UK Continental Shelf.
Russian energy giant Gazprom has found another gas deposit at the Leningradskoye field in the Kara Sea which is part of the Yamal gas production centre.
Turkish vessel Oruc Reis will carry out a seismic survey in the eastern Mediterranean over the next ten days, a move which will further test already tense relationships with Greece.
