The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. dropped to 22 units last week, according to weekly rig count reports released on Friday by Baker Hughes Company.
Danish offshore drilling company Maersk Drilling has secured a three-well drillship contract offshore Myanmar with the Korean oil company POSCO International Corporation.
Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has secured three new drilling contracts, adding around $75 million to its backlog.
Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has secured a contract extension for a drillship in South America and another one for a jack-up rig offshore the UK.
Houston-based Vaalco Energy has encountered oil sands in its Etame appraisal well located offshore Gabon.
Australia’s BHP has drilled two additional exploration wells as part of a deepwater drilling campaign offshore Trinidad and Tobago.
Oil and gas company Premier Oil has cheered the success of the Tolmount East well located in the UK Southern Gas Basin.
Cairn Energy has completed drilling of wildcat well 03/17a-3, known as Chimera, but failed to find hydrocarbons.
Dutch offshore rig designing company GustoMSC has signed a license agreement with Saudi company International Maritime Industries (IMI).
Singapore’s offshore rig builder Keppel Offshore & Marine has delivered its fourth jack-up rig to Borr Drilling. The rig has been named Hermod.
Norwegian oil and gas company OKEA will on Tuesday start the Draugen drilling campaign offshore Norway, using the Deepsea Nordkapp rig. OKEA will live stream the drilling log from the drilling operations on the semi-submersible rig.
The Sonangol Quenguela drillship is being held by Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency due to docking without permission.
PGNiG Upstream Norway has made a small oil and gas discovery southeast of the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea.
Repsol Norge, a subsidiary of the Spanish oil firm Repsol, has failed to find hydrocarbons at its exploration well 9/2-12, located six kilometers northeast of the Yme field center in the North Sea, offshore Norway.
