Sparrows Group, a specialist equipment and integrated engineering services provider, has been awarded a three-and-a-half-year extension to its inspection services contract for Stena Drilling’s fleet of drilling vessels. Sparrows said on Tuesday that the contract scope included carrying out LOLER lif
Erin Energy is set to start drilling at the Oyo-9 well offshore Nigeria by the end of July, and has informed Pacific Drilling – whose rig it will be using – of its intention. According to Erin Energy Pacific Drilling has assured Erin of its readiness to mobilize its sixth drillship, Pacific Bora by
Norwegian oil major Statoil has received consent from the national offshore safety authority, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway, to drill an exploration well in the Barents Sea using the Songa Enabler drilling rig. The exploration well labelled 7317/9-1, located in production license 718 in the
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for wellbore 7219/12-2 S in the Barents Sea off Norway. The NPD said on Friday that the wellbore 7219/12-2 S would be drilled from the Ocean Rig-owned Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig. The drilling program for the well
Offshore driller North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. (NADL) will not be taking delivery of its newbuild semi-submersible drilling rig West Rigel from Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard in Singapore just yet. The driller and the rig builder have now agreed an amendment to extend the delivery deferral period
As the “lower for longer” outlook keeps getting longer, some rig owners are setting the scene for a major restructuring in the offshore drilling industry. By David Carter Shinn Within a reasonable timeframe, rig dayrates, especially for deepwater drilling rigs, won’t increase from current cash break
Offshore driller Pacific Drilling expects to report a drop in contract drilling revenue for the second quarter of the year, compared to the first quarter, when it releases its results in August. The company on Wednesday said that contract drilling revenue for the second quarter 2017 is expected to b
Austrian oil company OMV has received consent from Norway’s offshore safety regulator, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), to drill an exploration well in the Barents Sea with the Island Innovator rig. OMV (Norge) AS, OMV’s Norwegian subsidiary, has now been given the consent to drill the wildcat
Offshore drilling contractor Sevan Drilling has amended the delivery deferral period for the Sevan Developer until June 30, 2020. Sevan ordered the cylindrical rig from Chinese shipbuilder Cosco (Qidong) in 2011. The rig was originally scheduled for delivery in the third quarter of 2014. However, as
Conrad Petroleum has completed well testing operations on the Mako South-1 well in the Duyung PSC offshore Indonesia. The COSL Seeker drilling rig is currently demobilizing back to its home base in Labuan, Malaysia. Conrad owns 90% of West Natuna Exploration Limited (WNEL), a holding company that ow
Aquamarine Subsea has been awarded a frame agreement with offshore drilling contractor Songa Offshore for classing of high-pressure manifolds on Songa’s four Cat D rigs. Aquamarine said that the duration of the contract was five years with an option to extend the deal for an additional five years. T
Offshore driller Odfjell Drilling has received a contract from Total for its Deepsea Stavanger semi-submersible drilling rig in South Africa. The contract is for one well plus one optional well to be drilled by the 6th generation semi-submersible rig offshore South Africa. According to Odfjell Drill
Offshore driller COSL Drilling Europe has received a letter of intent from Nexen Petroleum U.K. to carry out plugging and abandonment work at the Ettrick and Blackbird fields in the UK sector of the North Sea. The work, which will be conducted with the semi-submersible drilling rig COSLPioneer, incl
Denmark’s Port of Esbjerg on Monday shared a photo on its social media channels showing the Maersk Drilling-owned jack-up rig Maersk Resolve leaving the port. The port said that the rig left this past weekend after an idle period and warm stacking, heading for the Winchelsea II well in UK sector of
