Shelf Drilling, one of the world’s largest jack-up rig owners, has secured a contract extension for its Trident XIV jack-up rig.
Turkey has objected ExxonMobil’s last week’s start of drilling operations in the Block 10, offshore Cyprus, saying the ‘unilateral’ drilling would not bring peace to the Eastern Mediterranean region.
Following a lightning strike, Castex Energy has experienced issues, which slowed down its drilling operations at the Hummer gas/oil field in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
Equinor has received consent from the PSA for exploration drilling in the North Sea using the Transocean Spitsbergen rig.
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.
The PSA has found a non-conformity during an audit of planning and execution of drilling and well operations on the Oda field.
The U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has started drilling an exploration well offshore Cyprus. This was confirmed on Friday by the country’s Ministry of Energy. The ministry said Exxon had started drilling the drilling of “Delphyne-1” well in Block 10, within the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of
Cairn Energy has failed to find commercial hydrocarbons in its Ekland well in the UK North Sea and has decided to farm out its Chimera prospect, also located in the UK North Sea.
ABS said that the CS-Ready Notation was first-of-its-kind issued to an offshore facility.
Azinor Catalyst has made an oil discovery at its 9/14a-17B well and associated side-track on the Agar-Plantain Prospect located in license P1763 in the UK North Sea.
The PSA has decided to launch an investigation into an incident involving dropped objects on the Maersk Invincible drilling rig.
Jack-up rig specialist Shelf Drilling expects rig utilization to further increase in 2019, but the CEO has acknowledged the dayrates have yet to pick up.
Offshore driller Ocean Rig has informed that its drillship Ocean Rig Poseidon has been hired by Eni, and has started drilling programme in Angola.
Faroe Petroleum has failed to find hydrocarbons in the primary target of its Rungne exploration well in the North Sea offshore Norway.
