Australia-based oil and gas company Otto Energy has farmed into Talos Energy’s Green Canyon 21 (GC 21) lease in the Gulf of Mexico.
Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP has exercised the second of three one-week options for the Prosafe-owned Safe Scandinavia accommodation rig.
Tullow and its partners on the Orinduik Block offshore Guyana have approved the drilling budget and the location of the second well of the 2019 drilling program.
Norwegian offshore safety body has turned a notice of order to Ocean Rig regarding the working environment and emergency preparedness on the Leiv Eiriksson rig into a formal order.
Japan Drilling Company has signed a drilling contract for its Hakuryu-11 jack-up rig to an unnamed client in Vietnam.
Offshore driller Shelf Drilling has secured a three-year contract for one of its jack-up drilling rigs.
Aker BP has concluded the drilling of appraisal well 2/11-12 S and wildcat well 2/11-12 A located near the Hod field in the North Sea offshore Norway. Both wells were classified as dry.
Equinor has received consent from the PSA for exploration drilling in the Barents Sea using the West Hercules drilling rig.
Offshore drillers Ensco and Rowan Companies have received clearance from the General Authority for Competition in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their pending combination.
Offshore driller Odfjell Drilling will employ more than 200 personnel in Norway as two new semi-submersibles join the company’s fleet this year.
Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority for exploration drilling in the North Sea with the Transocean Spitsbergen rig.
Swedish oil company Lundin Petroleum has filed the plan for the development of the Solveig field offshore Norway. The field was previously called Luno II.
Polish oil company PGNiG will drill its first operated exploration well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf using the Odfjell Deepsea Nordkapp semi-submersible drilling rig.
Shell is preparing to start drilling an exploration well in the Black Sea offshore Bulgaria within days.
