The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for a wildcat well and pilot well in the Norwegian Sea. The wells, designated 6507/8-9 and 6507/8-U2, will be drilled using the Deepsea Bergen semi-sub after the drilling rig completes the drilling of appraisal well 31/7
Nature Group, an oil, gas, and maritime waste collection and treatment company, has secured a five-year contract with Maersk Oil in the central North Sea. Nature Group said on Tuesday that the contract would see the company mobilize offshore slop processing environmental units and operational staff
Oil company Lundin Norway has declared its third option to extend the existing contract of the Ocean Rig-owned semi-submersible rig, Leiv Eiriksson. In addition, Ocean Rig has granted Lundin two additional options to drill further wells in the future, the driller said on Monday. As a result of these
Danish offshore contractor Maersk Drilling is looking to reduce well costs through digital collaboration with the American conglomerate General Electric (GE). Following the positive outcome of their pilot project, Maersk Drilling and GE have extended the scope of their digital partnership. The colla
Norwegian oil company Statoil has made a small gas discovery in the Blåmann well, between the Snøhvit and Goliat fields, in the Barents Sea off Norway. Statoil kicked off its offshore exploration campaign in the Barents Sea off Norway with the Blåmann well in May. Recoverable volumes are estimated a
Singapore’s offshore driller KS Drilling and China’s rig builder COSCO Nantong have agreed to further postpone the delivery date for a jack-up drilling rig by two more years. KS Drilling entered the contract with COSCO Nantong to build two jack-up drilling rigs based on the LeTourneau Workhorse Clas
Vantage Drilling has secured a contract for one of its jack-up drilling rigs, the Topaz Driller. The Topaz Driller has been awarded a six-month contract with PETRONAS Carigali Ketapang for work in Indonesia, after completion of the current contract with Ophir Energy in Thailand. “This continues the
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for an appraisal well in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The well 7220/11-4 A will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig in production license 609. The license is operated by Lundin Norway with an owner
The number of U.S. offshore rigs remained unchanged for the second week in a row, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes, a GE company. Baker Hughes Rig Count: U.S. +0 at 952 rigs U.S. Rig Count is unchanged from last week at 952, with oil rigs up 2 to 765 and gas rigs […]
Offshore driller Noble Corporation has been awarded a contract for one of its drillships with the French oil major Total. In its latest fleet status report on Thursday, Noble said that the 2013-built drillship Noble Globetrotter II has been contracted by Total to work in the Black Sea offshore Bulga
Fred. Olsen Energy, a Norwegian offshore drilling contractor, will sell its tender support vessel Borgsten Dolphin for decommissioning. The rig has been cold-stacked in Invergordon, Scotland after the early termination of its contract with Total in 2016. The oil company had hired the Borgsten Dolphi
Oil company Lundin Petroleum has completed the drilling and production testing of Alta appraisal well (Alta-4) in the southern Barents Sea, confirming very good reservoir properties. Lundin’s Norwegian unit, Lundin Norway, received a drilling permit to drill the Alta appraisal well in March and gain
Offshore driller Seadrill has secured a firm contract for one well and one drill stem test with Statoil for the West Saturn drillship in Brazil. According to Statoil’s statement on Thursday, the exploration drilling with the Seadrill rig will be done in the BM-S-8 license in the Santos basin offshor
Private equity investment firm Castle Harlan and its partners, Champ Private Equity and Lime Rock Partners, have supported Shelf Drilling in a recent acquisition of three premium jack-up rigs, and the investors are eager to support further fleet expansion if the price is right. The acquisition of th
