Australian oil and gas safety regulator NOPSEMA has accepted Woodside Energy’s environment plan for a proposed drilling program in the WA-28-P permit north-west of Dampier offshore Western Australia.
Neptune Energy has hired the newly built Beacon Atlantic semi-submersible drilling rig for up to 16 wells offshore Norway.
Norwegian oil company Aker BP has made an oil and gas discovery northwest of the Bøyla field in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Siccar Point Energy has started drilling an offshore exploration well at the Blackrock prospect in the UK, using one of the world’s largest semi-submersible drilling rigs, the Ocean GreatWhite.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. remained unchanged at 22 units last week, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling has managed to score yet another job for its Topaz Driller jack-up rig in West Africa, which will keep the rig busy until the end of the year. The driller said on Thursday the 2009-built Topaz Driller had secured a deal with the oil company Vaalco. Vaalc
GranEnergia has been awarded a contract for the provision of accommodation services in support of Total’s Kaombo Sul hook-up and commissioning project offshore Angola.
Jack-up rig contractor Borr Drilling has secured offshore drilling contracts with oil company Pemex, which will see two new build jack-ups deployed in Mexico.
Odfjell Drilling-owned semi-submersible drilling rig Deepsea Bergen will stop by for a short stay at Norway’s offshore services provider Coast Center Base (CCB).
Australian oil and gas explorer Karoon has started tendering for a drilling rig which would drill the Marina-1 well offshore Peru.
Vantage Drilling sank deeper into the red in the last quarter of 2018 when compared to the prior-year period as its rig utilization and revenues dropped.
MMA Offshore has been awarded a drilling support contract by Australia’s energy company Santos.
The Petroleum Safety Authority has completed an investigation into an incident involving dropped objects on the Maersk Invincible drilling rig.
Offshore driller Rowan Companies has been awarded a drilling contract for a jack-up rig with Repsol in Guyana.
