The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wellesley Petroleum a drilling permit to drill a wildcat well in the North Sea.
Siemens will supply a battery-based energy storage solution to the West Mira which will make it the world’s first hybrid offshore drilling rig.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.
Equinor has received consent from the PSA for drilling of two wells on the Gina Krog field using the Maersk Integrator rig.
Austrian oil and gas company OMV has reportedly hired a jack-up drilling rig owned by COSL Drilling.
Aker BP has received consent from the PSA for exploration drilling in the North Sea using the Maersk Interceptor drilling rig.
The number of active offshore rigs in the U.S. remained unchanged this past week but was 3 rigs stronger compared to the corresponding week of last year.
Tower Resources has via its Cameroon subsidiary hired the Topaz Driller jack-up rig from Vantage Drilling for drilling operations offshore Cameroon in 2019.
Japan Drilling Company (JDC) has informed that its recently built jack-up rig has started drilling for Pertamina in Indonesia.
Shelf Drilling has received a three-year contract award for the Compact Driller jack-up rig with ADNOC Drilling.
There’s still over 50 newbuild jackups stranded in Chinese shipyards. It’s the end of 2018, and nobody knows when or how many of those rigs are coming to the market.
Offshore drilling giant Transocean has become even bigger as it on Wednesday evening announced the completion of the acquisition of Ocean Rig UDW, an ultra-deepwater drilling specialist.
Spirit Energy has started drilling the Cassidy exploration well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea within the Oda license.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea offshore Norway.
