World’s largest oil company Saudi Aramco has chartered the Setty jack-up drilling rig from the Egyptian drilling contractor EDC.
Shelf Drilling has secured a six-month contract extension for the Shelf Drilling Resourceful jack-up rig.
Black Sea Oil & Gas has made the Final Investment Decision to proceed with the $400 million Midia gas development project located in the Black Sea offshore Romania.
Total has made a significant gas condensate discovery at the Brulpadda prospect on Block 11B/12B offshore South Africa.
The global offshore upstream supply chain saw signs of recovery in 2018, and this looks set to continue in 2019, according to global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
Oslo-listed offshore drilling company Seadrill has entered into a 50:50 joint venture with Empresa de Serviços e Sondagens de Angola Ltda, an affiliate of Sonangol E.P.
U.S. oil major ExxonMobil can’t stop finding oil in Guyana. After a string of discoveries last year, the company on Wednesday said it had made two additional discoveries offshore Guyana at the Tilapia-1 and Haimara-1 wells, bringing the total number of discoveries on the Stabroek Block to 12.
UK-based Corallian Energy has begun drilling operations on the Colter appraisal well using one of Ensco’s jack-up drilling rigs.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP a drilling permit for two wells located in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Latin America and southern and western Africa are the regions to keep a close eye on, energy intelligence group Wood Mackenzie said in its analysis on Monday, also sharing the top five offshore exploration wells expected to be drilled in 2019. One of them could potentially hold 5 billion barrels.
Norwegian oil company Aker BP has hit oil and gas at it its Froskelar Main exploration well in the North Sea offshore Norway.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. dropped to 19 units last week, according to a weekly rig count reports by Baker Hughes.
Gulf Drilling International, a subsidiary of Gulf International Services, has reportedly sold one of his rigs for demolition.
COSL Drilling’s semi-submersible drilling rig COSL Innovator has been nominated as the rig to drill at the Barryroe oil accumulation located in the North Celtic Sea offshore Ireland. Providence Resources, the Ireland-based company whose subsidiary Exola operates the license containing the Barryroe p
