Oil and gas company Conrad Petroleum has received approval for its Duyung license drilling plans in Indonesia and has hired a drilling rig for the project.
The number of active offshore rigs in the U.S. rose to 27 units last week, Baker Hughes reported in its weekly rig count report on Friday.
UK oilfield services provider Petrofac has in a joint venture with SOCAR won an engineering and technical services contract to support Total and SOCAR’s exploration & production projects offshore Azerbaijan.
Lundin Norway has made a small oil discovery in the North Sea offshore Norway, 285 kilometers west of Stavanger.
Equinor has exercised the fourth of six one-month options to extend Prosafe’s Safe Boreas flotel at the Mariner project in the UK sector of the North Sea.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Polish state-controlled oil and gas company PGNiG a drilling permit for well in the Norwegian Sea.
A Maersk Drilling-owned drillship has been hired by Kosmos Energy to drill an exploration well offshore Equatorial Guinea.
Australian Santos is making progress with drilling operations at its second appraisal well on the Dorado oil and gas field – the Dorado-3 well – located offshore Australia.
Seadrill Limited has entered into a joint venture with Gulf Drilling International (GDI) following a recent contract award to GDI by Qatar Petroleum. Last May, Qatar Petroleum awarded contracts for a total of eight offshore jack-up drilling rigs required for the North Field Expansion (NFE) Project o
Well-Safe Solutions has awarded two multi-million-pound contracts to continue the refurbishment of the Well-Safe Guardian, the decommissioning company’s first asset, into a bespoke plug and abandonment unit.
Island Drilling Company has received a letter of intent from Capricorn Norge for operations in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling returned to quarterly profit on the back of drilling contract termination revenue received from Petrobras.
Shell has decided not to exercise its remaining options for Awilco Drilling’s only operational rig – WilPhoenix – which would leave the UK-based drilling contractor with no operational rigs once the current contract expires unless Awilco manages to find a new deal.
Pacific Drilling has won an offshore drilling contract for one of its drillships with Total for operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
