Oil company Lundin has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) for exploration drilling in the Barents Sea using the Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig. The well 7220/6-3 is located in production license 609 where Lundin is the operator with 40 percent interest. Other licensees are Idemi
Energy Drilling Management Pte. Ltd. has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Merchants Industry Holdings (CMIH), thereby acquiring exclusive marketing and operating rights to two premium newbuild drilling rigs. Energy Drilling, a company from the HitecVision portfolio established to deve
Irish oil and gas company Providence Resources has mobilized the Stena IceMAX drillship to Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 2/14, in the southern Porcupine Basin off Ireland, with expected arrival in early July. FEL 2/14 is operated by Providence, with 56% interest, on behalf of its partners Capri
UK-based offshore driller Ensco has reportedly secured a contract for its Ensco 122 jack-up drilling rig in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. According to VesselsValue, Dutch national oil company NAM will take the rig on a five-month drilling contract starting October 1 and ending February 28, 2018
Drilling contractor Seadrill has reportedly been awarded a contract with Malaysian oil giant Petronas for the West Capella ultra-deepwater drillship. According to data from VesselsValue, Petronas hired Seadrill’s drillship for a three-month contract starting October 1 until December 31, 2017. No det
Offshore driller Island Drilling Company has been awarded a drilling contract with the Austrian oil firm OMV in Norway. The contract is for one well at the Wisting license, located in PL 537 in the Barents Sea, with the rig Island Innovator. Start-up is scheduled for the third quarter of this year,
Hyperdynamics Corporation’s subsidiary, SCS Corporation Ltd. (SCS), and South Atlantic Petroleum (SAPETRO) are proceeding with the preparation to spud the Fatala-1 well off Guinea with an estimated spud date by the end of next month. In late May, Pacific Drilling-owned drillship Pacific Scirocco ent
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
