Beach Energy has hired a Diamond Offshore-owned semi-submersible drilling rig for drilling in the Otway Basin offshore Victoria, Australia.
Offshore driller Rowan Companies has won a contract for a jack-up drilling rig with Lundin in Norway.
Qatari offshore drilling company Gulf Drilling International has reportedly won contracts for two jack-up rigs. According to Bassoe Analytics, GDI has this week signed deals with Shell and North Oil Co. for the charter of Keppel-built Al-Khor and Dukhan jack-up rigs, for operations in Qatar. While n
Vryhof’s mooring business, Deep Sea Mooring, has signed a multi-year agreement with Diamond Offshore.
Shelf Drilling has received a contract award for one of its jack-up rigs with Belayim Petroleum Company (Petrobel) for operations offshore Egypt.
CNOOC Limited has made a new discovery on the Glengorm prospect, located in offshore UK Central North Sea.
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has found several irregularities during an audit of the Askepott rig.
Santos will drill the Santos Roc South-1 exploration well located offshore Australia immediately after Dorado-2 well in 2019.
Indian oil company ONGC has hired six jack-up rigs from four different offshore contractors.
The weekly U.S. offshore rig count rose by one active unit this past week, Baker Hughes, a GE company, said in a report on Friday.
Dolphin Drilling’s main shareholder, Bonheur, has decided it will no longer contribute any money in the troubled offshore driller.
Keppel is seeing signs of improvement in the offshore and marine business, however, the company is cautious with its optimism, leaning more towards FPSOs rather than drilling rigs.
Maersk Drilling-owned jack-up drilling rig Maersk Resolve has left Denmark’s Port of Osbjerg for a job in the Dutch sector of the North Sea.
Indonesian oil and gas company Medco has hired a semi-submersible drilling rig for drilling offshore Natuna, Indonesia.
