Oil company Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill a well in the Hoop area in the Barents Sea with the Songa Enabler drilling rig. According to the PSA’s statement on Thursday, the company has received consent to drill the well 7325/4-1 at Gemini Nord in the
Oil and gas company Conrad Petroleum is preparing to drill an appraisal well at its Mako prospect located in the Duyung Production Sharing Contract, offshore Indonesia. Duyung PSC is set in the Natuna Sea in water depths of 60-100 meters and associated shallow drilling depths of up to 2,000 feet. Th
Oil & gas company Erin Energy expects to more than double its oil production after it completes a pair of wells on the Oyo field located in OML 120, offshore Nigeria. Erin Energy currently produces approximately 6,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd). The company, formerly known as CAMAC Energy, said o
Three workers died and one was injured after a boiler exploded on the Odebrecht-run NS-32 (Norbe VIII) drilling rig offshore Brazil on Friday. According to Petrobras, Ericson Nascimento de Freitas, 29, who was hospitalized died on Friday. Jorge Luiz Damião, 44, died on Saturday. Eduardo Aragão de Li
Last week’s offshore rig count in the U.S. dropped by one unit, according to a Friday report by an oilfield services provider, Baker Hughes. BHI Rig Count: U.S. +11 to 927 rigs U.S. Rig Count is up 11 rigs from last week to 927, with oil rigs up 8 to 741, gas rigs up 3 […]
Following a letter of intent in April, offshore driller Odfjell Drilling has now signed a contract with Wellesley Petroleum for the semi-submersible drilling rig Deepsea Bergen. In its Oslo Stock Exchange filing on Friday, Odfjell Drilling said it has signed the contract with the Norwegian oil and g
Increasing number of North Sea drilling projects, oil company efficiency requirements, high barriers to entry, and shrinking fleet may lead to undersupply of premium rigs. By David Carter Shinn The North Sea, and particularly the Norwegian Continental Shelf, currently leads the market recovery scena
Through common stock and warrants offering, Houston-based Hyperdynamics has raised over $6 million, which the independent will use to pay for an exploration well on its acreage offshore West Africa. The company announced on Wednesday that the closing of a private placement offering of units of the c
The international offshore rig count for May 2017 was down by 27 units year-on-year, but up by one unit compared to the last month’s count, according to a Wednesday report by Baker Hughes. The international offshore rig count for May 2017 was 202, up 1 from the 201 counted in April 2017, and down 27
Qatari North Oil Company (NOC) has hired Japan Drilling’s Hakuryu 12 jack-up rig for work on the giant Al Shaheen oil field offshore Qatar. Japan Drilling Company (JDC) said that the NOC hired the rig on a two-year firm deal with options. The company added that the contract, starting in September 20
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for well 7219/9-2, in the Barents Sea off Norway. The drilling program for well 7219/9-2, in a prospect named Kayak, relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production license 532 where Statoil is the operator with
Norway’s Statoil has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), to drill an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea. The offshore watchdog said on Wednesday that the well is to be drilled in a prospect named Carmen in block 6507/8 at Haltenbanken. The site is
Maersk Invincible, one of the world’s largest jack-up rigs, has started its maiden work, plugging wells at the Aker BP-operated Valhall field in the North Sea, offshore Norway. According to a statement by Aker BP issued on Wednesday, the plugging operations started on May 28. Offshore Energy Today h
Thailand’s Unithai Shipyard and Engineering has recently completed maintenance of a jack-up drilling rig for the Dubai-based jack-up contractor, Shelf Drilling. The rig has now been moved out from the yard for operations in the Gulf of Thailand, the shipyard said in a statement on Tuesday. Unithai d
