The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Spirit Energy Norge a drilling permit for well 7322/7-1 located in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.
ExxonMobil has made its eighth oil discovery offshore Guyana. The U.S. oil firm on Wednesday said the oil discovery was made at the Longtail-1 well, creating the potential for additional resource development in the southeast area of the Stabroek Block.
Aker BP has been given a permission by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate to drill three wells in the North Sea.
Dubai-based shallow-water drilling Shelf Drilling is set to get listed on the Oslo stock exchange (Oslo Børs)
Analysis by Rystad Energy shows that Borr Drilling would emerge with the largest and youngest jack-up fleet if rigs over 35 years were retired in the short term.
Offshore driller Transocean will retire four offshore drilling rigs of which two three are of the ultra-deepwater type and one is a mid-water floater.
Rowan Companies has leased one of its jack-up drilling rigs to its joint venture with Saudi Aramco.
The number of U.S. offshore rigs remained unchanged during last week.
Cairn Energy has farmed into Azinor Catalyst’s Agar Plantain well and the P1763 Licence on the UK Continental Shelf.
Prosafe, the Oslo-listed provider of offshore flotels has further extended its standstill agreement for delivery of Safe Nova and Safe Vega accommodation rigs built by Cosco in China.
ADES International has completed the acquisition of three offshore jack-up rigs in the Arabian Gulf from Nabors Industries.
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine has delivered the Skald jack-up rig to Borr Drilling.
An Ocean Rig-owned drillship has been mobilized to Namibia in preparation for the drilling of Tullow Oil’s Cormorant-1 well planned for September.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) has moved 29 offshore drilling rigs ahead of the Indian monsoon season.
