Maersk Drilling has completed the sale of its jack-up rig Giant – formerly named Mærsk Giant – to the LOTOS Petrobaltic Group.
Environmental group Greenpeace has ended its protest in Scotland targeting BP-chartered drilling rig for its UK North Sea drilling operations after twelve days.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Capricorn Norge a drilling permit for a well located in the Norwegian Sea.
Kazakhstan’s state-owned oil and gas company KazMunayGas (KMG) has delivered a jack-up drilling rig named Satti to Azerbaijan’s SOCAR for operations in Azerbaijan’s sector of the Caspian Sea.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Aker BP a drilling permit for a well, which is located in the Norwegian Sea.
Singapore’s KS Energy, via subsidiary KS Drilling, has reached an agreement with ZPMC to cancel a jack-up rig construction order signed in 2014.
GulfSlope Energy has executed a drilling services contract with EnscoRowan to secure and utilize the Ensco 102 jack-up rig.
Lundin Norway has made two oil discoveries in exploration wells 16/1-31 S (Jorvik) and 16/1-31 A (Tellus East) on the eastern edge of the Edvard Grieg field in PL338 on the Utsira High off Norway.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor a drilling permit for well 6507/2-5 S, which is located in the Norwegian Sea.
Greenpeace says it is like groundhog day for a BP-chartered drilling rig in the North Sea as the rig has made its third U-turn in as many days with activists at its tail the whole time.
The Arctic Sunrise, a Greenpeace ship, has forced a BP-chartered drilling rig – Paul B. Loyd, Jr. – to make its second U-turn in the North Sea in less than 48 hours.
Australian energy company Santos has started drilling the Roc South-1 well offshore Australia, using the Noble Tom Prosser jack-up drilling rig.
Perisai Petroleum Teknologi Berhad has received a letter of award from Petronas Carigali for the provision of jack-up drilling rig, Perisai Pacific 101 (PP101) for Samarang drilling campaign.
Kosmos has hired a Seadrill semi-submersible drilling rig for operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico
