
Oil and gas company Wellesley Petroleum has drilled a dry well north of the Gjøa field offshore Norway.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has issued a drilling permit to Equinor for a wildcat well located in the North Sea offshore Norway.

Oil and gas services provider Sapura Energy has announced two major project wins in South America, as well as a drilling contract win in the Ivory Coast.

Eni has made a new gas discovery in the Great Nooros Area, located in the Abu Madi West Development Lease, in the conventional waters of the Nile Delta, offshore Egypt.

Energean has signed two new gas sales and purchase agreements (GSPAs) for the sale of gas from its Karish project located offshore Israel, which is expected to come online in the second half of 2021.

Russia’s Lukoil has completed the installation of the jackets of the fixed ice-resistant platform at the V.I. Grayfer field in the Caspian Sea.

SBM Offshore and Petrobas are in talks for the charter of an FPSO vessel for operations on the Buzios field located in the Santos basin, offshore Brazil.

Aibel has been awarded a field engineering, concept optimisation and definition study for Equinor’s unmanned process platform at the Krafla field.

Apache has gathered further reservoir and technical data from its Kwaskwasi-1 discovery well located in Block 58 offshore Suriname and started drilling at another location within the block.

Turkey is bringing in another drillship for operations in the Black Sea only weeks after announcing a giant gas discovery in the area.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has issued a drilling permit to Neptune Energy for well 6406/12-G-1 H located in the Norwegian Sea.

The U.S. weekly offshore rig count has not changed over the last week and remains flat at 15 units, according to a report by Baker Hughes Company..

Seismic player Polarcus and Russian shipping company Sovcomflot have once again agreed new terms for the vessel Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Specifically, Sovcomflot has exercised options to extend the firm period of the charter for 3 years. The new charter begins immediately after the project the vessel is

Japan Drilling Co. (JDC) has been awarded a contract by Mitsui Oil for the provision of a jack-up rig for drilling operations in Japan.