Tullow Oil has contracted a second rig to work on its drilling program and accelerate production growth in Ghana.
John Fredriksen’s Northern Drilling has found a firm 6-well contract for its harsh environment drilling rig West Mira with Wintershall.
Italian oil major Eni has made an oil discovery in Angola’s offshore block 15/06, in the Kalimba exploration prospect. Eni on Monday said the new oil find contained between 230 and 300 million barrels of light oil in place.
Norwegian oil and gas industry safety watchdog has given its approval to Total to use the Scarabeo 8 rig for an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea.
BP Canada on Friday reported an unauthorized spill of synthetic-based drilling mud (SBM) from the West Aquarius drilling rig, offshore Canada.
Norwegian oil major Equinor has hit dust in a well near the Visund field in the North Sea, offshore Norway.
Offshore oil and gas explorer Kosmos Energy has found no hydrocarbons in the Anapai-1A exploration well located in Block 45 offshore Suriname.
BW Offshore has completed a drilling operation at the second production well, DTM-3H, located in the Tortue field, within the Dussafu Marin License, offshore Gabon.
Maersk Drilling has secured a contract extension for the jack-up rig Maersk Convincer with Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) in Brunei.
Greek oil company Energean will drill an exploration well in the Karish North prospect, offshore Israel, with a planned spud date before end-March 2019.
Offshore liftboat specialist Gulf Marine Services has been awarded a contract to support a wind farm project in Europe for an international energy company.
The number of U.S. offshore rigs fell to 18 active units during this past week, according to the weekly rig count reports issued on Friday by Baker Hughes.
Equinor has received consent from the PSA to drill an exploration well off Norway using the West Hercules drilling rig.
Let the newbuilds come. The jackup market is far from oversupplied.
