Vantage Drilling has been awarded an extension of its drilling services contract for the Emerald Driller jack-up drilling rig.
Baker Hughes’ international rig count for October 2017 was 951, up 20 from the 931 counted in September 2017, and up 31 from the 920 counted in October 2016. The international offshore rig count for October 2017 was 204, up 14 from the 190 counted in September 2017, and up 4 from the 200 counted [&h
Vantage Drilling recorded an increase in its third quarter 2017 revenues while its net loss was almost the same as the one reported in the prior-year period.
Brazilian oil company Petrobras has reportedly asked offshore drilling contractor Odebrecht to stop operations of the Norbe VIII drillship, on which three workers died in June after an explosion. According to a Reuters report on Tuesday, Petrobras carried out an investigation into the causes of the
Danish offshore driller Maersk Drilling booked a loss for the third quarter 2017 compared to a profit in the prior-year period due to impairments.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for wellbore 7219/12-3 S offshore Norway.
Mubadala Petroleum has completed the drilling of two development wells on the Manora field in the G1/48 concession in the Gulf of Thailand.
According to a weekly rig count report by Baker Hughes, a GE company, the number of U.S. offshore rigs dropped by two.
Japanese offshore drilling company JDC has sold its 43 years old semi-submersible drilling rig Naga-1 for scrap.
Prosafe sank to a loss during the third quarter 2017 due to impairments.
For comparison, the company for the same period last year reported a net income attributable to controlling interest of $218 million.
The drilling campaign is for the Buzzard Phase II Development Project and is planned to start around July 2018.
Norway’s Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use the Askeladden Cat-J jack-up rig for drilling activities on the Gullfaks Sør field off Norway. To remind, the PSA conducted an audit last week to see how Statoil was ensuring that the Askeladden rig was suitable f
Oil company Kosmos Energy has completed drilling the Hippocampe-1 exploration well located in Block C-8 offshore Mauritania but failed to find oil or gas. The well was drilled in approximately 2,600 meters of water with the Ensco DS 12 drillship, formerly known as Atwood Achiever. Designed to test L
