Tender rig specialist Atlantica Tender Drilling has received a contract extension for one of its units with Petrobras in Brazil.
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK has started working on projects across a number of its assets in the UK North Sea that should realize in the region of an additional 10 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe), beginning later this year.
Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. (JAPEX) has started the exploratory drilling at offshore Hidaka area of Hokkaido, Japan, using the Ensco 8504 drilling rig.
Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill Partners has received early termination notice for the West Capricorn rig contract approximately three months ahead of schedule.
The number of active offshore rigs in the U.S. was 23 last week, unchanged from the previous week, according to a weekly rig count reports by Baker Hughes.
Orkney Islands-based engineering company Leask Marine dive team has completed a comprehensive in-water survey for ABS on Prosafe’s Safe Caledonia accommodation rig.
Offshore driller Noble Corporation has been awarded contract extensions for a semi-submersible drilling rig and a drillship.
Singapore’s offshore rig builder Keppel Offshore & Marine bounced back to the black during the first quarter of 2019 from a loss in the same period of 2018.
Offshore driller Transocean has secured more work for its drilling rig fleet, adding approximately $373 million in contract backlog since its last fleet status report in February.
Oil major Shell has started drilling an exploration well in the Black Sea offshore Bulgaria.
Keppel Offshore & Marine has secured integration and upgrading contracts worth a combined value of about S$160 million.
BHP, formerly known as BHP Billiton, has encountered hydrocarbons in its Bélé-1 exploration well located offshore Trinidad & Tobago.
Transocean Leader semi-submersible drilling rig has started drilling the 205/26b-C well (Warwick Deep) located off the UK for Hurricane Energy and Spirit Energy.
Turan Drilling & Engineering Company, a KCA Deutag and SOCAR AQS company, has been awarded its first contract, which is with BP.
