Azinor Catalyst has mobilized the Transocean Leader drilling rig for the Agar Plantain exploration and appraisal well on the UK Continental Shelf.
The number of U.S. offshore rigs climbed up to 21 last week, according to weekly rig count reports released on Friday by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas corporation Pertamina has reportedly hired one of JDC’s jack-up rigs.
After having depended only on one drillship’s revenue for quite a while offshore driller Pacific Drilling might soon have five rigs drilling simultaneously.
Aker BP has received consent from the PSA to use the Maersk Invincible rig on the Valhall Flank North and South fields.
Danish maritime giant Maersk has decided to “demerge” its drilling business Maersk Drilling via a separate listing of Maersk Drilling on Nasdaq Copenhagen in 2019.
Independent Oil and Gas has secured funding for the upcoming drilling of the Harvey appraisal well in the UK North Sea.
The Prospector 5 jack-up rig has left Damen Verolme Rotterdam and started its journey to the UK continental shelf.
Offshore driller Ensco has said it has resolved its issues with Petrobras and is now back on track to potentially secure more work with the Brazilian oil giant.
Shelf Drilling, one of the world’s largest jack-up rig owners, has secured a contract for one of its jack-up drilling rigs.
Wintershall has received consent from the PSA for exploration drilling in the Norwegian Sea.
New Age, the operator of the Etinde block offshore Cameroon, has completed the drilling of the IM-6 appraisal well, and the result has been described as “disappointing.” The IM-6 spudded on May 21. It was the first of two planned appraisal wells to be drilled in 2018 by the Etinde Joint Venture part
Norwegian oil company Equinor has completed the appraisal drilling on the Sigrun oil and gas discovery in the North Sea offshore Norway lifting its previous resource estimate for the discovery. Equinor is thinking of potentially developing the discovery via the nearby Grane platform.
Shelf Drilling, which describes itself as world’s largest offshore jack-up rig owner, has seen an uptick in jack-up rig utilization this year and expects rig demand to pick-up.
