Norway’s Statoil has received consent from the PSA for work on two wells on the Troll field using two Songa Offshore-owned Cat D drilling rigs.
The bottom of the market appears to have passed but 2018 will still be a tough year
Finland’s Wärtsilä and the Danish drilling contractor Maersk Drilling have teamed up to create a 25-year thruster maintenance strategy for Maersk’s three semi-submersible rigs and four drillships.
Transocean has won a number of new contract awards for its drilling fleet consisting of drillships and semi-subs with emphasis on a long-term gig with Shell for one of its drillship.
Diamond Offshore-owned Ocean Monarch drilling rig has started preparations to mobilize from offshore Fremantle to the Otway Basin offshore Victoria for Cooper Energy’s drilling campaign.
The U.S. offshore rig count has risen to 18 active drilling units this past week, according to a report by Baker Hughes.
Norwegian energy giant Statoil is about to start drilling on the Carcará discovery offshore Brazil, using a Seadrill-owned drillship. According to information obtained by Offshore Energy Today from a Statoil spokesperson, the Norwegian company is about to start a drill stem test on the Carcará disco
Northern Offshore has sold its semi-submersible rig Energy Driller to an unnamed party for conversion to alternative use.
A trial is set to start in Houston on Monday in a case of a worker injured in a 2012 shipyard accident when a jack-up rig of a Friede & Goldman design being built for Noble Corporation tilted to one side. The rig, now known as Noble Regina Allen, was being built by Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong […
Offshore driller Noble Corporation will be bringing one of its warm stacked rigs back to work following a binding letter of intent with a Thai operator.
Contract backlog for offshore driller Transocean has been reduced due to changes in the drilling contract for one of its drilling rigs.
Awilco Drilling has lost an opportunity for a potential contract for its only active rig as an unnamed operator no longer plans to run the drilling campaign for which the rig was hired.
Offshore driller Stena Drilling has signed a contract with Timor Sea Oil & Gas Australia Pty Limited (TOGA) for the Stena Clyde drilling rig.
Following a fatal explosion on an ONGC rig in a shipyard in India one person remains in critical condition.
