Aker Energy is about to complete a successful drilling operation of the Pecan-4A appraisal well offshore Ghana.
UK North Sea-focused oil company i3 Energy has signed a letter of intent with Dolphin Drilling for the use of a semi-submersible drilling rig for its 2019 drilling program.
MOL Norge is in the process of concluding the drilling of a wildcat well in the North Sea offshore Norway. The well is dry.
Oil giant Shell is getting ready to start drilling an offshore well in Bulgaria using a Noble Corporation drillship.
The worldwide offshore rig count in December 2018 increased by 30 units from November of the same year and increased by 49 units year-over-year, according to a Tuesday report by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
Offshore driller Noble Corporation has won a contract for its drillship Noble Tom Madden with ExxonMobil in Guyana.
Malaysia’s Sapura Energy has been awarded new contracts and contract extension with a combined value of approximately RM760 million ($184.8M).
Odfjell Drilling has taken delivery of Deepsea Nordkapp drilling rig from Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea
Oil major ExxonMobil has begun drilling the Haimara-1 exploration well offshore Guyana, the first of two planned wells in January.
ConocoPhillips has received consent from the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority to use the West Elara drilling rig for production drilling on the Eldfisk field located offshore Norway.
Wellesley Petroleum has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority for exploration drilling in the North Sea, using the Transocean Arctic drilling rig.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. dropped to 22 units last week, according to a weekly rig count reports by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
Lamprell has received a letter of intent from International Maritime Industries Company (IMI), confirming the intent to award Lamprell the contract for the construction and delivery of two jack-up drilling units.
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has confirmed the resolution of its dispute with Angola’s Sonangol related to the delivery of two drillships.
