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.
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.
