Maersk Drilling has reportedly managed to find a contract for its Maersk Convincer jack-up drilling rig. According to a report by VesselsValue, Shell has hired the jack-up rig on a contract long one year and three months. The contract, of an undisclosed value, is expected to start in 2018, according
The number of offshore rigs operating in the U.S. this week is unchanged compared to the previous weekly rig count, Baker Hughes said in its Friday report. BHI Rig Count: U.S. +8 to 941 rigs U.S. Rig Count is up 8 rigs from last week to 941, with oil rigs up 11 to 758, gas rigs […]
India’s Aban Offshore has been awarded a five-year contract plus options for one if its jack-up rigs by Shell in Brunei. According to a Friday statement by Deep Drilling 1 PTE. LTD, Aban’s subsidiary, the contract has been entered into for the deployment of the jack-up rig Deep Driller 5 (DD5) offsh
Perisai Petroleum has been awarded a contract extension for the jack-up drilling rig Perisai Pacific 101 by Malaysia’s state-owned oil company Petronas. Perisai’s 51% subsidiary, Perisai Offshore, has been awarded the extension to the contract, secured on May 8, 2014, which required the provision of
India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), with the support of Aqualis Offshore, has matched its pre-monsoon rig move record set last year offshore India. The marine and offshore engineering consultancy firm Aqualis said that the ONGC executed a total of 33 jack-up rig moves in April, M
Danish offshore driller Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the jack-up Maersk Resolve by Wintershall. The rig has been warm-stacked since the end of 2016. The one-well contract will have a duration of approximately 86 days, with further options included, Maersk Drilling reported on Wedn
The Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found two improvement points during an audit of the COSLPromoter semi-submersible drilling rig. The PSA said on Wednesday that the audit was conducted on June 7 and 8 and that it focused on the management of integrity in s
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given Statoil a consent to use the Bideford Dolphin rig for drilling and completing well 34/7-A-10 on the Snorre field in the North Sea. The PSA said on Tuesday that drilling on Snorre was scheduled to begin on July 7, 2017, a
Offshore driller North Atlantic Drilling Ltd (NADL) has been awarded a one-well contract with Siccar Point Energy E&P (SPE) for Seadrill’s semi-submersible drilling rig West Hercules. NADL is a harsh environment drilling contractor and Seadrill’s subsidiary who took over management of the rig in 201
Oil and gas company Conrad Petroleum started drilling an appraisal well on the Mako prospect in the Duyung Production Sharing Contract, offshore Indonesia, on Friday night, June 16. Conrad is the opearator of the Natuna Sea PSC with 90% interest and Empyrean Energy is its partner with the remaining
Exploration and production player Aker BP has completed the drilling of a wildcat well in the North Sea off Norway. The well is dry. The well 24/9-11 S was drilled about 7 kilometers west of the Volund field, 11 kilometers southwest of the Alvheim field and 230 kilometers northwest of Stavanger in t
Offshore drilling contractor Songa Offshore is reportedly thinking of scrapping its semi-submersible rig Songa Trym. The rig has been stacked without a contract since the late 2015, and according to Sysla.no, if the driller doesn’t find work for the unit soon, the rig’s fate will be sealed. Namely,
Conrad Petroleum will start drilling an appraisal well at its Mako prospect, in the Duyung Production Sharing Contract, offshore Indonesia, within days, according to a partner in the project. Conrad Petroleum is the operator of the PSC with 90% interest and Empyrean Energy is its partner with the re
Offshore driller Noble Corporation has been awarded new contracts for one of its drillships under which the unit will operate in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and later Suriname. In its latest fleet status report issued on Thursday, Noble informed that the 2013-built drillship Noble Bob Douglas has been a
