Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given consent to Aker BP to drill the 24/9-12 S North Sea exploration well using the Transocean Arctic rig. Aker BP is the operator for production license 340 in the North Sea. The company holds 65 percent interest while its p
Quadrant Energy has signed a contract with Ensco to drill the highly anticipated Dorado-1 exploration well using the Ensco-107 jack-up drilling rig.
U.S. weekly offshore rig count neither rose nor fell this past week, as Baker Hughes, a GE company, on reported on Friday. The overall U.S. rig count rose, however. Baker Hughes Rig Count: U.S. +9 to 907 rigs U.S. Rig Count is up 9 rigs from last week to 907, with oil rigs up 9 […]
Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has secured another contract extension for its drilling rig Noble Paul Romano
Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found eight non-conformities and two improvement points during an audit of the COSLPromoter drilling rig.
Some of them are walking dead, but old rigs aren’t coming back to get us.
Songa Offshore’s revenues dropped due to lack of contribution from two stacked rigs.
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.
