Oil and gas company Lundin Norway will spud the Goddo well (16/5-8 S), located in license PL 815 offshore Norway, shortly.
Shelf Drilling has secured a contract for the Shelf Drilling Scepter jack-up rig with Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production for operations in the Gulf of Thailand.
Tullow Oil has started drilling operations offshore Guyana with the spudding of the first exploration well on its Jethro-Lobe prospect on the Orinduik Block.
Mexico’s Grupo R has started drilling the Xikín – 32 marine well, becoming the first company to start the offshore drilling works of the program promoted by the new administration of Pemex Exploration and Production (PEP).
Oil and gas company Byron Energy Limited has begun plug and abandonment operations on its SM74 D14 Bypass No.1 well after deeming it uncommercial.
Shelf Drilling has executed a two-year extension for each of the Shelf Drilling Tenacious and the Shelf Drilling Mentor jack-up rigs.
The PSA has found irregularities during an audit related to an application for an Acknowledgment of Compliance for the Transocean Norge mobile drilling rig.
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority has given its consent to Aker BP to drill an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea, using the Deepsea Stavanger drilling rig.
Offshore accommodation rigs operator Prosafe has taken delivery of its newbuild unit Safe Eurus from a shipyard in China.
The discovery will soon be put on stream via the new, unmanned, and remote-operated H platform
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. decreased to 24 units this week, according to weekly rig count reports published on Wednesday by Baker Hughes, a GE company. Baker Hughes Rig Count: U.S. -4 to 963 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 4 rigs from last week to 963, with oil rigs down 5 […]
The worldwide offshore rig count in June 2019 rose by 9 units sequentially and rpse by 56 units year-over-year, according to monthly rig count reports by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
Canadian authorities have begun environmental assessments for two offshore exploration projects proposed by BHP Billiton and Suncor, respectively.
With nearly 60 offshore rigs, China is doing everything it can to boost oil and gas production. And the country’s energy independence policy is keeping rig supply out of the global market.
