Wintershall has failed to find hydrocarbons after drilling a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. rose to 21 units last week, according to the weekly rig count report by Baker Hughes, a GE company
Wellesley Petroleum has completed the drilling of wildcat well 35/4-2 in the North Sea offshore Norway. The well is dry.
Equinor has made a minor oil discovery in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Noble Corporation has bought a second newbuild Gusto MSC CJ46 design jack-up rig from the PaxOcean Group (PaxOcean) for $83.75 million.
ExxonMobil has exercised the third of four options for the Rowan Companies-owned Rowan Relentless, an R-Class ultra-deepwater drillship.
Diamond Offshore-owned semi-submersible drilling rig Ocean Apex has been hired for the drilling of the Ironbark prospect in exploration permit WA-359-P, offshore Western Australia.
Rowan Companies has been awarded a drilling rig contract with Petronas offshore Mexico.
Norwegian E&P player Aker BP has received consent from the PSA for exploration drilling on the Volund field using the Deepsea Stavanger rig.
The U.S. oil company Hess has extended the contract for the Naga 8 jack-up drilling rig in Malaysia. The rig is owned by Velesto Drilling, a company previously known as UMW Offshore Drilling.
Equinor has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 7132/2-1 in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. The well was dry.
Offshore driller Diamond Offshore has scored two contracts with Shell for two of its semi-submersible drilling rigs.
It’s gotta stop at some point. And it will. There’s more excitement coming.
Following its takeover of Greek driller Ocean Rig, Transocean has been working to employ its now enlarged drilling rig fleet, resulting in several new contracts and extensions.
