Danish offshore driller Maersk Drilling has decided to reduce its Gulf of Mexico staff by 84 employees.
Transocean has secured a multi-million-dollar litigation victory in the case related to a drilling contract with the Italian oil company Eni for the Deepwater Pathfinder drillship.
Prosafe expects to see an end of its dispute with Westcon in March.
Offshore driller Awilco Drilling has signed a letter of intent with an undisclosed operator for the provision of the WilPhoenix drilling rig. The one-well program has an estimated duration of 115 days and will start in direct continuation from the rig’s current contract with Apache North Sea Limited
Norwegian oil company Statoil has exercised its second option in the Deepsea Bergen’s drilling contract.
A U.S. bankruptcy court has approved Seacor Marine’s stalking horse bid to form a joint venture company with Montco Offshore, a liftboat specialist that has earlier filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Oil and gas company Byron Energy expects to reach total depth at the SM 71 F3 well in the Gulf of Mexico by early February.
Singaporean rig builder Keppel Offshore & Marine is in talks with Oslo-listed driller Borr Drilling about the possible sale of jack-up rigs currently being built by Keppel FELS.
The PSA has found seven non-conformities and six improvement points during an audit of the Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. remained unchanged last week, according to weekly rig count reports by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
The contract is worth around $8.2 million, meaning the dayrate for the rig is around $136.000.
Offshore drilling giant Transocean has received shareholders’ approval to acquire its Norway-focused rival Songa Offshore.
Speedcast has been selected by Noble Corporation to provide IT communications equipment and connectivity services to its drilling fleet.
KS Energy’s subsidiary KS Drilling has secured a contract extension for one of its jack-up drilling rigs.
