Early on Sunday afternoon a Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, got ahead of the BP-chartered drilling rig Paul B. Loyd, Jr. 83 miles off Scotland and near the drill site of a new well in the North Sea as part of a protest that has been going on for over a week now.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea to Aker BP.
Equinor has made an oil and gas discovery in 6507/3-13. exploration well in the production license 159B the Norwegian Sea, and is thinking of a potential tie-up with the nearby Norne FPSO
The well, designated 7335/3-1 and named Korpfjell Deep, is located in production license 859 in the Barents Sea where Equinor is the operator.
Shell has hired a Dolphin Drilling semi-submersible drilling rig for work on the Knarr field in Norway.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. increased to 24 units last week, according to weekly rig count reports published on Friday by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
A fresh team of Greenpeace activists has re-boarded a Transocean-owned rig in Scotland hired by BP for UK North Sea operations just hours after Police Scotland declared the occupation over.
Luminus has been extremely disappointed by EnscoRowan trading performance
CNOOC Petroleum Europe Limited, a subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, has exercised a one-well option for the Maersk Drilling-owned Maersk Innovator jack-up rig.
Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace are still occupying a Transocean rig, contracted by BP for drilling operations in the UK North Sea.
Talos Energy has confirmed its Bulleit appraisal well, which is located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, as commercial discovery.
Norwegian engineering and construction services company Kvaerner has built and delivered a permanent caisson support structure for the Repsol-operated Yme New Development project located offshore Norway. Kvaerner said through its social media channels on Wednesday that its Verdal yard completed and
British oil major BP has served an injunction to Greenpeace in order to stop the actions of the environmentalist group’s activists aboard a rig currently under contract with the company.
Norwegian E&P player Aker BP has received consent from the PSA for exploration drilling in the North Sea using the Deepsea Nordkapp drilling rig.
