The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well located offshore Norway. The well 6604/5-1 will be drilled from the West Phoenix semi-submersible drilling rig. The drilling program for well 6604/5-1 relates to the drilling of a wildcat wel
Odfjell Drilling saw a decrease in profit during the third quarter of 2017 despite higher revenues pushed up by increased rig activity.
Borr Drilling is seeing signs of healthy tendering activity in the jack-up rig market and is optimistic about a further increase in utilization levels going into 2018.
Lundin has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill an exploration well off Norway with the Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig.
Lundin Norway has completed the drilling of exploration well 7219/12-2 on the Hufsa prospect in PL533 in the southern Barents Sea. A non-commercial gas discovery was made in the main well while the sidetrack was dry. The wells were drilled about 20 kilometers west of the discovery well 7220/11-1 (Al
One of Transocean’s semi-submersible drilling rigs has been awarded a contract to drill production wells at the Dvalin field in the Norwegian Sea.
Byron Energy has installed the the SM 71 Platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, offshore Louisiana. This has been reported by Otto Energy, Byron’s partner in the South Marsh Island 71 (SM 71) oil and gas development. Otto Energy on Wednesday confirmed that installation of the jacket and decks comprisi
Aker BP has entered into two separate alliance agreements, one with Maersk Drilling and Halliburton for jack-up rigs, and one with Odfjell Drilling and Halliburton for semi-submersible rigs.
November 20, 2017 – Singaporean shipyards have held an influential position in the offshore shipbuilding world for years. Now they’re upping their game even more.
Mubadala Petroleum has abandoned an exploration well located in the G1/48 concession in the Gulf of Thailand.
Oilfield services provider Baker Hughes has reported that the U.S. weekly offshore rig count has risen to 21 active units. The overall rig count in the U.S. is also up this week, according to the company’s Friday report. Baker Hughes Rig Count: U.S. +8 to 915 rigs U.S. Rig Count is up 8 rigs from [&
OMV has received a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD).
A U.S. bankruptcy court has granted a relief requested by offshore driller Pacific Drilling which earlier this week filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The driller on Thursday said the relief was granted by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in certain first day mo
Spanish oil company Repsol is set to resume work on the Yme field in the North Sea offshore Norway, after years of delays at the project. The company has hired a drilling rig/production platform, and has ordered caisson support structure for the Yme New Development project. Danish driller Maersk Dri
