Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary PPL Shipyard has terminated contracts with Oro Negro, a Mexican drilling services provider, for the construction of three jack-up rigs. The contracts were with Integradora de Servicios Petroleros Oro Negro, S.A.P.I. de C.V. and its subsidiary Oro Negro Vastus. The jack-u
Brazilian oil and gas regulator ANP last week held a licensing round, offering 287 offshore and onshore exploration blocks for oil companies to bid for. Out of the 287 blocks, it offered 76 offshore blocks in the Santos basin, the second largest producer of oil and the first of natural gas in Brazil
Norwegian oil company Aker BP has completed the drilling of an appraisal well and a wildcat well in the North Sea offshore Norway. The appraisal well 25/2-19 S and wildcat well 25/2-19 A were drilled in the central part of the North Sea, about 12 kilometers northeast of the Frøy field and 200 kilome
The number of offshore rigs operating in the U.S. climbed up by three units last week, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes, a GE company. Baker Hughes Rig Count: U.S. +5 to 940 rigs U.S. Rig Count is up 5 rigs from last week to 940, with oil rigs up 6 to 750, […]
Hansa Hydrocarbons and Oranje-Nassau Energie B.V. (ONE) have encountered what they say is a significant gas discovery in the North Sea. Hansa Hydrocarbons informed on Tuesday, September 26 that the N05-1 exploration well drilled offshore Netherlands on its GEms licences, had been confirmed as a sign
Lundin Norway has completed drilling of exploration well 7220/6-3 on the Børselv prospect in PL609 on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry. The well was drilled approx. 20 kilometers north of the oil and gas discovery 7220/6-2 R (Neiden), 30 kilometers northeast of Johan Cast
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Bayerngas Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well offshore Norway. The well 35/9-13 will be drilled from the Songa Enabler Cat D drilling rig, after completing the drilling of wildcat well 7317/9-1 for Statoil in production license 718, the No
By: David Carter Shinn Brazil won’t save the deepwater market, but it’s going to help it. Petrobras will resolve their rig deficit, and IOCs will develop new acreage. That means more drilling. The Brazilian offshore rig market will probably never see a return to its halcyon days of 2012. But these d
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given Aker BP a consent to use the Songa Enabler rig for well intervention on three wells on the Skarv field offshore Norway. The wells, designated 6507/5-A-3, 6507/5-B-6, and 6507/5-B-8, are located on Skarv field in the Norw
Eni Norge has hit dust in the Goliat Eye wildcat well (7122/10-1 S) in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said on Wednesday that the primary exploration target for the well was proving petroleum in Middle Triassic reservoir rocks (Kobbe formation). To remind, the P
Aquamarine Subsea Solutions has been awarded a contract to upgrade Diamond Offshore’s Ocean Valiant semi-submersible drilling rig currently operating in the North Sea. Aquamarine said that the company would upgrade the 18 3/4” subsea stack. The company will also supply engineering design, fabricatio
Helix Energy Solutions’ new semi-submersible well intervention vessel Q7000 is set to undergo sea trials. Posting one of the first photos of the vessel online, Helix on Monday said its newest DP3 well intervention vessel would start sea trials in the South China Sea “this week.” “The Q7000 is an evo
After having arranged the sales of Maersk Oil and Maersk Tankers, Danish conglomerate Maersk is now looking to offload its offshore drilling division, Maersk Drilling. According to a Bloomberg report on Monday, Rowan Companies, a U.S. based offshore driller and the owner of 29 offshore drilling unit
Offshore driller Transocean is set to retire six of its ultra-deepwater floating rigs. The rigs in question are GSF Jack Ryan, Sedco Energy, Sedco Express, Cajun Express, and Deepwater Pathfinder, and the deepwater floater Transocean Marianas. The rigs will be classified as held for sale and will be
