Lundin has exercised its first option for the COSL Drilling-owned drilling rig COSLInnovator. The rig will be used to drill wells offshore Norway.
Italian oil company Eni is searching for a drilling rig to drill an exploration well on its Rowallan prospect in the Central North Sea.
Greek oil and gas firm Energean has signed a contract with Stena Drilling for the development drilling of the Karish field, offshore Israel.
UK oil giant BP has hired a rig for well intervention operations on the Rhum gas field in the UK Northern North Sea.
Statoil has made plans to drill an appraisal well on the recent Verbier oil discovery located in the outer Moray Firth on the UK Continental Shelf.
BW Energy Dussafu has started drilling the DTM-2H production well on the Tortue oil field located offshore Gabon as part of the Dussafu Marin Production Sharing Contract.
The number of active offshore rigs in the U.S. has fallen by two and now stands at 17, according to a report by Baker Hughes.
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given its consent to Spirit Energy to drill an exploration well in the North Sea using the Songa Enabler drilling rig.
Wellesley Petroleum has made an agreement with Transocean for a three-firm slot contract with the Transocean Arctic semi-submersible rig.
Lamprell is on track to complete the upgrade of the Master Marine-owned Haven accommodation rig during 2Q 2018.
Singapore’s industrial conglomerate Keppel saw its full-year profit sharply cut due to the cost of the bribery settlement reached by its rig building subsidiary late in 2017.
Lamprell expects its 2017 revenue guidance to be at the lower end of the previously expected amount. The company is sticking to its previous guidance for 2018 and expects no growth until 2019.
Norway’s offshore safety regulator has given its consent to Aker BP to use the Maersk Interceptor jack-up rig in the North Sea.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Spirit Energy Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well offshore Norway.
