The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted ConocoPhillips a drilling permit for a well in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority for exploration drilling in block 30/6 in the North Sea, using the West Hercules rig.
Equinor has concluded the drilling of an appraisal well on an oil and gas discovery near the Fram field in the North Sea offshore Norway, but came up dry.
Offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has secured a one-year extension for the Trident XIV jack-up rig offshore Nigeria.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. remained unchanged for yet another week, according to Friday rig count reports by Baker Hughes.
The worldwide offshore rig count in November 2019 increased by four units sequentially and 41 units year-over-year, according to reports by Baker Hughes Company.
Suriname’s national oil company Staatsolie has completed its nearshore drilling project in the country, but failed to make a commercial oil discovery.
Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for exploration drilling of two wells in the North Sea using the Deepsea Yantai drilling rig.
No significant hydrocarbon shows were encountered in the primary objective of Mubadala Petroleum’s second exploration well at the G1/48 Manora oil field located in the Northern Gulf of Thailand.
Contracts secured in Malaysia, Mozambique, and Brazil
Noble has completed the previously disclosed transaction with Shell relating to the two joint ventures in which Noble and Shell each held a fifty percent interest.
Odfjell Drilling and Semco Maritime have signed a contract for preparation and modification of Deepsea Stavanger rig prior to its start of a nine-month drilling campaign for Total in the harsh waters outside South Africa.
Vaalco Energy has completed drilling a development well at the Etame field offshore Gabon. Vaalco has placed the well on production at higher than anticipated rate and started drilling another development well on the field.
Spirit Energy has proved a natural gas discovery in the targeted Carboniferous sandstones of its Andromeda North well located in the UK North Sea, but the discovery is at the “lower end of expectations.”
