Maersk Drilling and Seapulse have signed a Master Alliance Agreement under which Maersk Drilling will provide fully integrated services for a global offshore oil & gas exploration drilling program of 12 wells.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the Barents Sea.
Offshore drilling specialist Stena Drilling has reportedly secured a year and a half long contract for its Stena Spey semi-submersible drilling rig.
Pacific Drilling, an offshore drilling specialist with one of the younger fleets in the industry is off to a fresh start after it last month emerged from bankruptcy.
U.S. oil firm Talos Energy has started drilling of an appraisal well at the Zama field, a two-billion barrel find discovered in 2017.
Australia’s Santos has secured a drilling rig for its Dorado appraisal campaign in WA-437-P offshore Australia scheduled to start in April next year.
Anglo/Dutch oil major Shell has returned workers to the Brent Charlie North Sea platform following a power outage last week.
ExxonMobil has exercised the first two options for the Rowan Companies-owned drillship Rowan Relentless.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP a drilling permit for a wildcat well located in the North Sea offshore Norway.
ABS, one of the world’s leading classification societies, has teamed up with GE collaborating on digital twin offshore rig deployment for equipment health monitoring and prediction.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. dropped by two units last week, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
Northern Drilling has decided to take early delivery of its newbuild semi-submersible rig West Mira as a result of new options exercised under the rig’s contract with Wintershall.
Black Sea Oil & Gas has awarded the EPCIC contract for all offshore and onshore facilities for the Midia Gas Development Project offshore Romania to GSP Offshore.
Offshore drilling companies Transocean and Ocean Rig have informed that their respective shareholders have voted in favor of the previously proposed Transocean’s acquisition of Ocean Rig.
