Dolphin Drilling, a subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Energy, has received a termination for convenience notice from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for the four-year contract for the drillship Bolette Dolphin. Fred. Olsen informed on Sunday that the contract, which was supposed to expire in July 2018, will
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for wellbore 7325/4-1, in the Barents Sea off Norway. The permit comes after the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), Norway’s offshore safety body, gave Statoil consent to use the Songa Enabler drilling rig for the well. T
ADES International Holding has been awarded a contract by Eni IEOC, the Egyptian subsidiary of Italian oil major Eni, for a new drilling campaign offshore Egypt. ADES is a London-listed company providing offshore and onshore oil and gas drilling and production services in the Middle East and Africa
DEA Norge has received consent from the Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), to drill a shallow gas well on the Dvalin field in the Norwegian Sea using the Songa Encourage drilling rig. The goal of the shallow gas pilot well, designated 6507/7-U-10, is to exclude the
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Faroe Petroleum Norge a drilling permit for the well 31/7-2 A, offshore Norway. The well 31/7-2 A will be drilled from the Deepsea Bergen drilling rig in production license 740 in the North Sea, which contains the Brasse discovery. The drilling p
Statoil and partners Eni and Petoro have made an oil discovery in the Kayak well in the Johan Castberg license, offshore Norway. Statoil received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to drill the Kayak well with the Songa Enabler drilling rig in April and a drilling permit from the Norwegian
Oil and gas company Faroe Petroleum has seen “outstanding flow rates and reservoir quality” in the Brasse appraisal well in the Norwegian North Sea as it gears up for a side-track well. The 31/7-2 S well was drilled from the Deepsea Bergen semi-submersible drilling rig. According to Faroe’s Monday u
Norwegian oil firm Statoil will soon start a three-well exploration drilling campaign on the UK continental shelf. In early July, the semi-submersible rig Transocean Spitsbergen will spud the first well in the campaign, the oil company said on Monday. The rig has recently mobilized from Bergen, Norw
After two weeks without a change, the U.S. weekly offshore rig count dropped to 21 units last week, the oilfield services provider Baker Hughes said in a report on Friday. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -1 to 940 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 1 rig from last week to 940, with oil rigs down 2 […]
Oil firm Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) for exploration drilling in block 7435/12 in the Barents Sea with the Songa Enabler drilling rig. The offshore safety regulator reported on Friday that the wells 7435/12-1 and 7435/12-U-1 will be drilled in a prospect na
Norwegian oil company Statoil has released a video of its new Cat J jack-up drilling rig at the Samsung yard in South Korea before it headed to Norway. According to Statoil’s Thursday update on social media channels, the Askeladden rig, which is the first of two Cat J rigs, is now finished and on it
Australian oil and gas company Quadrant Energy is in final stages of looking for a semi-sub rig to drill the Phoenix South-3 well, offshore Western Australia, planned for early next year. According to a Thursday update by Carnarvon Petroleum, Quadrant’s partner, the Phoenix South-3 well is being des
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for wildcat well 7220/6-3 in the Barents Sea. Earlier this week, the Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority, granted Lundin consent to drill the 7220/6-3 well using the Ocean Rig-owned Leiv
Vantage Drilling’s ultra-deepwater drillship, the Platinum Explorer, has received a letter of award for a three-year contract from India’s Oil and Natural Gas Company (ONGC). The 2010-built Platinum Explorer is planned to mobilize to India in the fourth quarter of 2017, the driller reported on Tuesd
