Greenpeace activists have boarded an offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean and scheduled to start drilling for oil major BP in the UK North Sea in an attempt to hinder the oil company’s plans.
The Stena Drilling-owned Stena Forth drillship has been mobilized from West Africa – where it has been operating for Tullow – and is now en route to the Tullow-operated Orinduik Block offshore Guyana.
The U.S. weekly offshore rig count remained flat during last week, according to a rig count report published on Friday by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
More than 1500 offshore workers in Norway might go on a strike if a wage settlement with the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association – representing the companies – is not reached.
The worldwide offshore rig count in May 2019 dropped by 11 units sequentially but was up 43 rigs year-over-year, according to monthly rig count reports by Baker Hughes.
Offshore driller Transocean has bought two 20,000-psi (20K) blowout preventer (BOP) stacks from National Oilwell Varco, in a deal that the equipment manufacturer described as a historic one for the offshore oil and gas industry.
Singapore’s KS Drilling in a joint venture with Universal Energy Resources has won a contract by Eni for a charter of the semi-submersible drilling rig SSV Catarina.
Completion of all agreements between Cue Energy and BP, Beach Energy, and New Zealand Oil & Gas has been achieved, resulting in the formation of a joint venture to drill the Ironbark-1 well in exploration permit WA-359-P, offshore Western Australia.
Classification society DNV GL has signed a contract for the first Cyber Secure class notation with Stena Drilling.
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Santos has informed that the Dorado-2 appraisal well has confirmed a major oil and gas resource in the Bedout Basin, offshore Western Australia.
Capricorn Norge has received consents from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority, for exploration drilling in the Norwegian Sea.
Zentech has been awarded an engineering and project management scope for the conversion of the Key Gibraltar jack-up rig to a mobile offshore production unit for deployment in the B-80 field, offshore Mumbai.
Singapore’s offshore rig builder Keppel has ordered Kongsberg equipment for a semi-submersible drilling rig it is building for Awilco Drilling.
