Oil company Lundin Norway has started drilling of exploration well 7220/6-3 on the Børselv prospect in PL609 on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The well is located on-trend north of the Alta and Neiden oil discoveries, approximately 18 km northwest of the Neiden discovery well. Lundin sa
Following a force majeure event from late July, Golden Close Maritime Corp, the owner of the Deepsea Metro I drillship, has received a drilling contract termination from an unnamed client in South East Asia. The drillship is managed by Odfjel Drilling. The contract for a two-firm well campaign with
Offshore driller Paragon Offshore is evaluating options for removal of its drillship, the Paragon DPDS1, which broke loose of its moorings during Hurricane Harvey’s landfall while in safe harbor at Port Aransas, Texas. Ahead of the storm, Paragon had arranged for two standby tugs to remain with the
Paragon Offshore’s drillship has grounded in the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, after Hurricane Harvey ripped the ship’s mooring lines. According to My San Antonio, the DPDS1 drillship, formerly known as the Noble Phoenix, broke from the moorings on Saturday, sinking a tugboat in the process. Offsho
Norwegian oil company Statoil has proven a small, non-commercial gas volume in the Korpfjell well in the Barents Sea southeast. The company received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill the 7435/12-1 well with the Songa Enabler drilling rig in late June and a drilling permit fr
Offshore drilling contractor COSL Drilling Europe needs about 250 rig workers to staff two of its semi-submersible drilling rigs ahead of new contracts. Back in July, the driller was awarded two new contracts for its drilling rigs. The first one was awarded by Nexen Petroleum for the COSLPioneer dri
Oil & gas company Hyperdynamics completed the top portion of the Fatala-1 exploration well offshore Guinea over the weekend with early indications supporting the geophysical model of the prospect. The exploration well is being drilled with the Pacific Drilling-owned drillship, the Pacific Scirocco.
Oil company Lundin has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill two wildcat wells in the Barents Sea with the Ocean Rig-owned Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig. The offshore safety body gave its consent to the oil company’s Norwegian entity, Lundin Norway, to drill two wells des
Offshore oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico have evacuated 105 offshore platforms in response to tropical storm Harvey. The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said that, based on data from offshore operator reports submitted at 18:30 CET on Sunday, personnel was evac
Lundin Norway has completed the drilling of Alta oil and gas discovery appraisal wells in the Barents Sea. The oil company will now reassess the resource estimate of the discovery based on results from the pair of appraisal wells. The appraisal wells 7220/11-4 and 7220/11-4 A are located in producti
Oil company Aker BP has completed the drilling of wildcat well 25/4-11, targeting the Hyrokkin prospect, located in the North Sea off Norway. The well is dry. The well was drilled in the central part of the North Sea, about 11 kilometers northwest of the Vilje field and 220 kilometers northwest of S
The number of U.S. offshore rigs climbed up by to 17 units last week, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes, a GE company. Baker Hughes Rig Count: U.S. -6 to 940 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 6 rigs from last week to 940, with oil rigs down 4 to 759, gas rigs […]
Oil and gas company Hyperdynamics is nearly finished with the most difficult portion of its Fatala-1 exploration well offshore Guinea. The well is being drilled with the Pacific Drilling-owned drillship Pacific Scirocco, which arrived at location in early August. Hyperdynamics said on Friday that, a
Offshore driller Songa Offshore, soon to be acquired by rival driller Transocean, returned to profit in the second quarter of 2017 despite decrease in revenues due to three stacked rigs. Earlier this month, one of the world’s largest offshore drillers, Transocean, announced its plan to acquire 100 p
