Turkey’s first drillship Fatih has left Antalya and is on its way to a location in the Mediterranean Sea where it is expected to start searching for oil and gas.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Aker BP a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Similar to its rival Rowan, offshore driller Noble Corporation is seeing an increase in offshore drilling activity despite recording a loss for the third quarter of the year.
U.S. offshore drilling company Rowan, expected to be acquired by its UK rival Ensco, sees improvement in the offshore drilling space.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Faroe Petroleum a drilling permit for well 31/7-3 S located offshore Norway.
Offshore driller Odfjell Drilling has signed the final agreement for a $325 million bank loan that will be used to finance rig acquisition.
Panoro Energy has plans to use the CTF-4, a 2,000-horsepower onshore rig for the drilling of the Salloum West-1 well (“SAMW-1”) located in the Sfax Offshore Exploration Permit, offshore Tunisia.
Equinor has received consent from the PSA to use the Transocean Spitsbergen rig for drilling of the Presto prospect.
Norwegian oil company Equinor has informed that a new gas module has been put on stream on its Troll B platform offshore Norway. The module will help boost production from the Troll field.
Odfjell Drilling has signed a letter of intent for Deepsea Bergen rig with MOL Norge for one exploration well in direct continuation of the contract with OMV Norge.
Maersk Drilling-owned Maersk Invincible jack-up rig has completed the plug and abandonment (P&A) program of wells at the Aker BP-operated Valhall field center offshore Norway much sooner than planned.
Offshore driller Rowan has won a contract for the Rowan Reliance drillship in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. It has also won extensions for rigs working with BP and Cantium.
Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved Chrysaor’s acquisition of a stake in the Grevling discovery offshore Norway.
Noble Tom Madden drillship has reportedly arrived in Guyana where it will be used by ExxonMobil for offshore drilling works.
